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2020 LA Times Festival of Books: Week 2 Preview
MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2020 Marlon James, Author of “Black Leopard Red Wolf”, Winner of the Inaugural Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, in Conversation with Tananarive Due 6:00pm “Marlon James, winner of the inaugural 2019 L.A. Times Ray Bradbury Prize … Continue reading
2020 LA Times Festival of Books: Week 1 Review
Happy Monday Beat Fam. We hope you had a great time last week participating in the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Let us know your thoughts on your event(s) in the comments below! Keep an eye out later today … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Events
Tagged 25th Annual LA Times Festival of Books, biography, Books, Events, festival, LA Times Festival of Books, literacy, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Reading, USC, writing
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2020 LA Times Festival of Books: Week 1 Preview
Happy Sunday, L.A.! This morning the Los Angeles Times and the University of Southern California will push forward with the LA Times Festival of Books. In honor of the festival’s 25th anniversary, organizers have arranged twenty-five virtual events featuring an … Continue reading
See! Hear! Read! Local Author Desiree Zamorano at LitFest Pasadena, Saturday, May 9
Novelist Desiree Zamorano may be una bruja—though definitely of the glistening, Glinda good-witch variety. Her luminous writing reminds us that the shoes we are wearing right now are in fact the ruby slippers that will take us home—not necessarily where … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Interviews, Upcoming Events
Tagged author, Books, Latina, Latina literature, literacy, mystery novel, writers, writing
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Community Writers’ Space “The Hatchery” Grand Opening
The Hatchery is a new communal workspace for writers that provides its members 24/7 quiet studio access, a communal kitchen, wifi, free printing and copies, a library, free tea and coffee, and much more. Located off of Larchmont, the space … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Events, Miscellanious, Upcoming Events
Tagged christina mcdowell, the hatchery, wolf of wall street, workspace, writers, writing
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2014 ASCAP “I Create Music” Expo
On Thursday, after my return form my San Francisco trip I popped into the ASCAP “I Create Music” Expo at the Loews Hotel at Hollywood & Highland to put my hand on the pulse of the art and business of … Continue reading
Posted in Music, News & Sports
Tagged Billy Bennight, country, hip-hop, Hit, Hit Songs, interview, Los Angeles, model, Music, Peter Gabriel, Pop, Producer, Producers, Rock, Rock and roll, Song, Song Writing, Top 40, Top Forty, U2, Versace, writing
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Interview with Ariel S. Winter of “The Twenty-Year Death”
Ariel S. Winter, author of The Twenty-Year Death, was kind enough to answer some questions about the novel, reviewed here for the LA Beat. A resident of Baltimore, who has earned his dues as a bookseller at The Corner Bookstore … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Interviews, Miscellanious
Tagged ariel s. winter, black mask, crime fiction, crime novels, james ellroy, the twenty-year death, writing
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