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Skylight Books
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JONATHAN FRANZEN
discussing and signing his new novel
Purity
Saturday, Sept. 12
at the beautiful
ARATANI THEATRE
in downtown L.A.
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September 12-13
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Location:
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Thursday, September 17
6:45 p.m.
Architecture and Beyond presents:
Cory Buckner: Crestwood Hills: The Chronicle of a Modern Utopia
Los Feliz Library
1874 Hillhurst Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Saturday, September 19
7:30 p.m.
Shades and Shadows reading series featuring:
Aimee Bender, Tananarive Due, Mallory Reeves, Glenn Best and more
Mimoda Studio
5774 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Thursday, September 24
6:30 p.m.
Family Values at Work
Presents:
Ellen Bravo reads
Again and Again
Location:
Feminist Majority
433 South Beverly Drive.
Los Angeles, CA 90212
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Hi there! How was your summer? Did you miss us? Well, we sure missed you! After taking (most of) August off, we're ready to jump back in the saddle and bring you a full slate of the kind of events you've come to expect from us. From up and coming literary sensations, to one of our generation's most talked-about novelists, to books about sex, the poetry of Los Angeles, and cartoons about our deepest fears, we're picking up right where we left off, and we're hoping you're along for the ride. Read on to see what's coming this September.
David Gonzalez
Events Manager
[email protected]
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VU TRAN
with TOD GOLDBERG
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Wednesday, September 2 at 7:30 p.m.
"On the pure joyous level of great storytelling, Dragonfish is a top notch mystery; but it also deals with so goddamn much: the ramifications of war and the perils of assimilation, the impossibility of straddling two cultures and belonging to none, the limitations of the past, grief, lost lovers, gambling, ghosts, and Vegas, baby, Vegas. Note-perfect. Heartbreaking. Profound. Dragonfish is a polished dagger of a novel that will cut out your heart." -- Charles Bock, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Children
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NINA REVOYR
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Thursday, September 3 at 7:30 p.m.
Lost Canyon
(Akashic Books)
Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness,
Lost Canyon
explores the ways that race, class, and culture shape experience and perception.
Set in the grand, wild landscape of the California mountains,
Lost Canyon
is a story of brewing social tensions and breathtaking adventure that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
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JENNIFER PASHLEY
(fiction)
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Friday, September 4 at 7:30 p.m.
The Scamp
"Jennifer Pashley's stunning debut novel is wonderfully colorful and dangerous, following a tough, savvy narrator on a perilous trek toward release from a messy and difficult life, a dead child, a troubled and troubling family. [...] Pashley writes like an angel who has spent time in parts South, figuratively and literally, and the pleasures of reading her are rich and satisfying."
-Frederick Barthelme, author of
There Must Be Some Mistake
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CECIL CASTELLUCCI
(young adult)
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Saturday, September 5 at 2:00 p.m.
Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure
(Disney Lucasfilm Press)
Join us today for a special Star Wars celebration! Show off your best Wookie roar! Compete in Star Wars trivia! And much much more! Costumes are encouraged!
Set between Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi, the story follows the warrior princess as she leads a ragtag group of rebels on a dangerous mission against the evil Galactic Empire. Hidden in the story are also hints and clues about the upcoming film Star Wars: The Force Awakens, making this a must-read for fans old and new!
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JANE WARD
(nonfiction)
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Tuesday, September 8 at 7:30 p.m.
Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men
(New York University Press)
 A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight-her boyfriend may even encourage her. But can straight white guys experience the same easy sexual fluidity, or would kissing a guy just mean that they are really gay?
Daring, insightful, and brimming with wit, Not Gay is a fascinating new take on the complexities of heterosexuality in the modern era.
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THE RATTLING WALL
(literary journal)
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Wednesday, September 9 at 7:30 p.m.
The Rattling Wall Issue 5
(Pen Center USA/Narrow Books)
Join us today as one of our favorite Los Angeles literary journals, The Rattling Wall, presents writers from Issue 5 reading their work.
Readers will include:
David Ulin,
Cecil Castellucci,
Rita Williams,
David Francis,
Julianne Ortale and
Susan Berman.
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ROBERT GUFFEY
(nonfiction)
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Thursday, September 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Chameleo
A mesmerizing mix of Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, and Philip K. Dick,
Chameleo
is a true account of what happened in a seedy Souther
n California town when an enthusiastic and unrepentant heroin addict named Dion Fuller sheltered a U.S. Marine who'd stolen some night vision goggles and perhaps a few top secret files from a nearby military base.
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JONATHAN FRANZEN
(fiction)
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Saturday, September 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Purity
(Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)
Skylight Books is thrilled to present Jonathan Franzen, and his latest magnum opus, Purity, at the beautiful Aratani Theatre in downtown Los Angeles!
NOTE: This reading will be held at the ARATANI THEATER (244 SOUTH SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012) and TICKETS ARE REQUIRED FOR ENTRY. Tickets cost $33 and include a copy of Purity and sales tax. Tickets are available via our website and Brown Paper Tickets.
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BONITA THOMPSON
(fiction)
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Sunday, September 13 at 5:00 p.m.
The New Middle
From marriage, children, and career, to being single, widowed, facing death, and reinventing oneself, The New Middle is a character-driven tale that explores the depth of regret, loneliness, isolation, and angst.
Whether or not you've reached midlife,
The New Middle
is a compelling novel that will have you laughing and crying alongside its unforgettable characters until the very end.
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CARMIEL BANASKY
with TIM HEIDECKER
(fiction)
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Tuesday, September 15 at 7:30 p.m.
The Suicide of Claire Bishop
"Vivid, strange and always compelling, The Suicide of Claire Bishop weaves together art, politics and the specter of madness in an unforgettable New York story. Carmiel Banasky, a writer like no other, is a talent to watch."
-Claire Messud, author of
The Emperor's Children
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PATRICK DEWITT
(fiction)
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Thursday, September 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Undermajordomo Minor
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his last novel,
The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt delivers his latest novel, Undermajordomo Minor, a folktale re-imagined in a wholly original way-at once adventure, mystery, searing portrait of bad behavior and, above all, violent love story.
Following in the footsteps of the Brothers Grimm, Thomas Bernhard, Bram Stoker, and Italo Calvino, deWitt finds great modern resonance in an archetypal tale about sorrow, love, isolation and obsession.
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KATHLEEN ALCOTT
with KAROLINA WACLAWIAK
(fiction)
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Saturday, September 19 at 5:00 p.m.
Infinite Home
(Harper Collins)
"A stunningly sensitive exploration of how families are made and unmade, and how the search for one's place in the world can come to define a life. Kathleen Alcott writes characters so achingly real, they will take up permanent residence in your imagination."
-Laura van den Berg, author of
The Isle of Youth and
Find Me
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WIDE AWAKE:
POETS OF LOS ANGELES
(poetry)
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Sunday, September 20 at 5:00 p.m.
Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles
and Beyond
 Join us for a special evening of poetry with readings from
S.A. Griffin, Suzanne Lummis, Harry E. Northup, and Holly Prado
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n celebration of this a
nthology published by legendary literary arts center Beyond Baroque
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"Like L.A. itself, the book is a shifting landscape, formal and informal, collective and individual. The conversation it provokes insists we ask the most fundamental questions: Who are we? How do we live here?"
- David Ulin, LA Times Book Critic
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JANICE LEE
(nonfiction)
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Wednesday, September 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Reconsolidation: Or, it's the ghosts who will answer you
Reconsolidation: Or, it's the ghosts who will answer you
is a lyrical montage born out of the eternal loss of a loved one. Powerfully crafted during grief's inertia, Janice Lee elegantly weaves the present with recollections of a tenuous past, arresting memory's flexible and vulnerable position in the lifelong process of mourning. A eulogy for a loved one - pure and honest -
Reconsolidation
is a poetic search for a lost connection.
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AMY BERKOWITZ
with MAGGIE NELSON
(nonfiction)
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Friday, September 25 at 7:30 p.m.
Tender Points (Timeless/Infinite Light)
The Argonauts (Graywolf Press)
"
Tender Points
does precisely what people are always saying can't be done-it combines a moving, distilled, literary journey with advocacy and even pedagogy, here about trauma, chronic pain, patriarchy, and more. Call it "écriture féminine en homme," if you want (as Berkowitz does, with acid wit)-but whatever you call it, this is firm, high-stakes speech speaking truth to power, radiating beauty and fierceness from its inspiring insistence and persistence."-Maggie Nelson
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VANESSA GARCIA
with EDUARDO SANTIAGO
(fiction)
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Saturday, September 26 at 5:00 p.m.
White Light
"
White Light
is a wonderfully generous creation, including a myriad of worlds while never blurring the firm line with which the author is always in control. The world of visual arts, of a Cuban American daughter and her difficult father, of food - its joys and terrors - of a young woman's trying to navigate her way in a world that offers her simultaneously too few and too many possibilities. It is a throbbingly original achievement." -- Mary Gordon, author of
The Love of My Youth
and
Spending
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RICK BURSKY
and MARTIN OTT
(poetry)
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Sunday, September 27 at 5:00 p.m.
I Am No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance (BOA Editions)
Underdays (Univ of Notre Dame Press)
Please join us this evening as two terrific poets share their latest collections.
I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance
by Rick Bursky is a collection of poems that assign new meanings to the people and things of the past.
Underdays by Martin Ott is a dialogue of opposing forces: life/death, love/war, the personal/the political. Ott combines global concerns with personal ones, in conversation between poems or within them, to find meaning in his search for what drives us to love and hate each other.
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FRAN KRAUSE
(comics)
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Tuesday, September 29 at 7:30 p.m.
Deep Dark Fears
 Please join us this evening in celebrating the launch of a charmingly creepy collection of 100 illustrated comics based on idiosyncratic and universal "deep dark fears," based on the popular Tumblr.
"The great thing about Deep Dark Fears is that you'll find that you're not the only one with arguably irrational fears; the downside is you'll discover way more to be afraid of."- Liz Prince, author of Tomboy and Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed?
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MEMBER REWARDS PROGRAM
Friends with Benefits is designed to encourage L.A.
book
buyers to shop locally by choosing Skylight as their first option for books, cards, zines and eclectic gifts, both in-store and online.
For an annual membership fee ($25 for 1 year; $45 for 2 years, $65 for 3 years) members receive the following benefits:
- 20% off selected Skylight bestsellers and other featured titles
- 20% off the current month's author event books and priority in the signing line for our biggest author events
- 10% off books, DVDs, blank journals, cards, and sidelines
- Members-only events and special sales
- A special monthly e-newsletter with additional discounts and giveaways
- Free Media Mail shipping within the continental U.S.
Discounts apply both in-store and for online orders at skylightbooks.com.
Memberships may be purchased or renewed in the store or online. For more info, ask any of our staff members or email [email protected].
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