![]() Grace Lee, editor of the student newspaper at Buena Park High, said “A Promised Land” made her think about legacies and what we leave behind. President Obama, what do you think is our most important next step in overcoming our differences as a nation?” Tariq Stone, an aspiring filmmaker who attends Inglewood High, asked: “Right now we’re in a period of being extremely divided and we are finally starting to see the first signs of hope. The evening’s highlights included Obama responding to questions from two local high school students. Thank you to everyone who tuned in for our April book club with President Barack Obama and filmmaker Ava DuVernay discussing “ A Promised Land.” Claim your narrative - it makes you feel powerful.” That’s Sonoratown restaurant owner Jennifer Feltham talking about writing her book during the pandemic. Last word: “I’ve had my story told so many times by others. as campuses reopen, check out this eye-opening discussion with columnist Sandy Banks and education reporters Paloma Esquivel, Howard Blume and Sonja Sharp. “The community has been very responsive.”Īsk a reporter: If you’re a parent, or just wondering about the state of schools in L.A. “It keeps coming and coming and coming,” Convention & Visitors Bureau President Steve Goodling tells the Long Beach Post. The city has set up 12 drop-off sites at libraries and businesses across Long Beach to collect the donations. Norton is taking Blake Bailey’s “Philip Roth: The Biography” and 2014 memoir “The Splendid Things We Planned” out of print after recent allegations of sexual misconduct.īorder book drive: An “avalanche” of books is greeting migrant children arriving for temporary housing at the Long Beach Convention Center. The series is the latest adventure for the prolific author, who turned 80 in April, shared his papers with the Huntington Library and published a surf novel, “Under the Wave at Waimea.”īeyond “Black Panther”: Jevon Phillips talks with five Black comic book creators with five ways of seeing this inclusive superhero moment.įallout continues: W.W. of Paul Theroux’s 1981 novel about a paranoid Yankee crank who hauls his family to the jungles of Honduras to escape everything that bothers him about America, which is just about everything,” writes TV critic Robert Lloyd. “ Justin Theroux (‘The Leftovers’) takes the lead in what seems intended as a multiseason variation. ![]() Theroux news: Travel writer Paul Theroux’s novel “Mosquito Coast” returns as a new Apple TV series this weekend - with his nephew as the star. Margaret Wappler talks with author Maggie Shipstead about the stories behind “Great Circle.” novelist was struggling to depict a female adventurer. He lifted the lid on the Valley and let people see we’re part of California too.”īefriending fear: A bestselling L.A. “Oftentimes we feel like the rest of the state and rest of the country doesn’t really understand us,” says Mike Russo, owner of Russo’s Books in Bakersfield. “He was obsessed and driven and was one of the best craftspersons in the United States.” Young also was a novelist, lecturer and jazz musician.Īuthor and historian Gerald Haslam memorably chronicled life in rural California, what he always called “The Other California,” in 21 fiction and nonfiction books. He wrote like other people went to work,” recalls Ishmael Reed in the San Francisco Chronicle. ![]() Al Young, the state’s former poet laureate, “was a 9-to-5 poet. RIP Al Young and Gerald Haslam: We recently lost two iconic California voices. “The result,” says reviewer Zan Romanoff, “is a swath of tales that are both wildly imaginative and emotionally grounded, speculations that not only imagine our possible futures but illuminate the collective anxieties of our unsettled and unsettling present.” Rodriguez) and the Miracle Mile ( Aimee Bender). Winters), Studio City ( Francesca Lia Block), Angeles National Forest ( Luis J. ![]() Edited by novelist and former Times reporter Denise Hamilton, the collection includes stories set in West Torrance (Yu), Echo Park ( Lynell George), Culver City ( Ben H. What questions do you have for Yu and Chang? Share them in advance in an email to Keep readingįuture Los Angeles? Yu is among an impressive lineup of 14 writers who contributed the surreal landscapes of “ Speculative Los Angeles,” a recent anthology that reimagines the city through its distinctive neighborhoods. PDT on May 27 and will be livestreamed on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. The virtual book club event with Yu and Chang starts at 7 p.m.
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