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Connecting readers and writers in celebration of books.
Coming Soon: WeHo Reads: Poets Laureate Lee Herrick & Jen Cheng Wed. April 15 6:30 pm PT RSVP:
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#poem
#poems
#poetry
#PoetryCommunity
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WeHo Reads: Poets Laureate Lee Herrick & Jen Cheng
Poetry helps us explore who we are and how we connect to the world around us.
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15 days ago
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A powerful and fun conversation about building community among friends and writers. Catch the replay on the WeHoArts YouTube channel.
www.youtube.com/live/G3OFJ63...
#booksky
#authorevent
#writingcommunity
#asianauthor
#femaleauthor
#novels
#shortstories
#fiction
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Coming Soon: WeHo Reads: Writing Together—Pomodoros, Marinara, and Friendship, featuring Jade Chang, Angela Flournoy, Aja Gabel, Jean Chen Ho, and Xuan Juliana Wang Wed. March 11 6:30 pm PT RSVP:
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#LiteraryReading
#BookDiscussion
#Booksky
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WeHo Reads: Writing Together — Pomodoros, Marinara, and Friendships, featuring Xuan Juliana Wang What happens when five writer friends meet for pasta and pomodoros? Wed. March 11 6:30 pm PT online free RSVP:
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#LiteraryReading
#BookDiscussion
#Booksky
about 1 month ago
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WeHo Reads: Writing Together—Pomodoros, Marinara, and Friendships, featuring Jean Chen Ho What happens when five writer friends meet for pasta and pomodoros? Wed. March 11 6:30 pm PT RSVP:
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#LiteraryReading
#BookDiscussion
#Booksky
@codysiscowrites.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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WeHo Reads: Writing Together — Pomodoros, Marinara, and Friendships, featuring Aja Gabel What happens when five writer friends meet for pasta and pomodoros? Wed. March 11 6:30 pm PT RSVP:
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#LiteraryReading
#BookDiscussion
#Booksky
about 1 month ago
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WeHo Reads: Writing Together — Pomodoros, Marinara, and Friendships, featuring Angela Flournoy What happens when five writer friends meet for pasta and pomodoros? Wed. March 11 6:30 pm PT RSVP:
www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads...
#LiteraryReading
#BookDiscussion
#Booksky
about 1 month ago
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WeHo Reads: Writing Together—Pomodoros, Marinara, and Friendship Featuring Jade Chang, author of two critically acclaimed novels, What a Time to Be Alive and The Wangs vs. the World, which won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Wed. March 11 6:30 pm PT RSVP:
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about 1 month ago
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Cody Sisco
about 1 month ago
Thank you so much for sharing your stories and telling family secrets last night!
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@aimeeliu.bsky.social
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Coming Soon: WeHo Reads: Writing Together—Pomodoros, Marinara, and Friendship, featuring Jade Chang, Angela Flournoy, Aja Gabel, Jean Chen Ho, and Xuan Juliana Wang Wed. March 11 6:30 pm PT RSVP:
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@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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Starting soon!
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WeHo Reads: Telling Family Secrets
What happens when writers dare to expose family secrets through stories and memoir?
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about 1 month ago
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Coming Soon: WeHo Reads: Telling Family Secrets, featuring Toni Ann Johnson, Aimee Liu, Juanita E. Mantz, and Hannah Sward Wed. Feb. 18 6:30 pm PT RSVP:
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about 2 months ago
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Coming Soon: WeHo Reads: Telling Family Secrets Wed. Feb. 18 6:30 pm PT RSVP:
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@aimeeliu.bsky.social
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@booksoupofficial.bsky.social
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about 2 months ago
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Coming Soon: WeHo Reads: Telling Family Secrets, featuring Toni Ann Johnson talking about BUT WHERE'S HOME? a new collection of linked stories Wed. Feb. 18 6:30 pm PT RSVP:
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2 months ago
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Coming Soon: WeHo Reads: Telling Family Secrets, featuring Toni Ann Johnson, Aimee Liu, Juanita E. Mantz, and Hannah Sward Wed. Feb. 18 6:30 pm PT RSVP:
www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads...
@toniannj.bsky.social
@aimeeliu.bsky.social
@codysiscowrites.bsky.social
@bookswellclub.bsky.social
2 months ago
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Which WeHo Reads 2025 event spoke to you? Drop a comment, share a takeaway, or tell us which event sparked your imagination. Your reflections help keep this community alive and shape what comes next.
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3 months ago
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Watch WeHo Reads on YouTube
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WeHo Reads: Going Dark to Bring Light
YouTube video by WeHoArts
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4 months ago
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WeHo Reads: Going Dark to Bring Light featuring Jennifer J. Chow, Tori Eldridge, Nicholas George, and Georgia Jeffries Dec. 3, 2025 6:30 pm PT Online, Free, RSVP:
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@codysiscowrites.bsky.social
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
@booksoupofficial.bsky.social
4 months ago
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WeHo Reads: Going Dark to Bring Light Featuring: Jennifer J. Chow Wed. Dec. 3 6:30–8 p.m. PT Online Via Zoom and YouTube Free, RSVP Requested:
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#crimefiction
#cozymystery
4 months ago
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WeHo Reads: Going Dark to Bring Light Wed., Dec. 3 6:30–8 PM PT Online, Free, RSVP Requested:
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#crimefiction
#suspense
#thriller
#authorevent
@codysiscowrites.bsky.social
5 months ago
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Cody Sisco
5 months ago
Tonight, hear from three wildly imaginative writers
@olivasthewriter.bsky.social
@charliejane.bsky.social
@tuck.bsky.social
online with
@bookswellclub.bsky.social
and WeHo Reads
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WeHo Reads: Wild and Powerful Imaginations on Wed., Nov. 12 at 6:30 PM PT with three groundbreaking trans authors: Charlie Jane Anders, M. M. Olivas and Tuck Woodstock
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@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
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5 months ago
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Save the date! Nov. 12 6:30 pm PT WeHo Reads: Wild and Powerful Imaginations Charlie Jane Anders M. M. Olivas Tuck Woodstock
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6 months ago
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Philip Leventhal
7 months ago
VIDEO: LA Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson recommends THE SISTERHOOD: HOW A NETWORK OF BLACK WOMEN WRITERS CHANGED AMERICAN CULTURE, by Courtney Thorsson!
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LA Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson Shares What She Is Reading on the BookSwell Intersections Podcast
YouTube video by BookSwell
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Désirée Zamorano discusses her powerful novel, Dispossessed, about the expulsion of Mexican Americans in the 1930s. Listen here ➡️
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#PodcastEpisode
#AuthorInterview
#LatinaAuthors
#HistoricalFiction
#RepresentationMatters
6 months ago
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7 months ago
I’m so looking forward to this! I’ll be reading an excerpt from my Introduction for The White Picket Fence.
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We're excited to welcome featured author Dan López at WeHo Reads: Voices of Transformation on Oct. 8 at the West Hollywood Library.
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7 months ago
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We're excited to welcome featured author Gina Rae Duran at WeHo Reads: Voices of Transformation on Oct. 8 at the West Hollywood Library.
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7 months ago
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We're excited to welcome featured author Carlos Allende at WeHo Reads: Voices of Transformation on Oct. 8 at the West Hollywood Library.
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7 months ago
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We're excited to welcome featured author Myriam Gurba at WeHo Reads: Voices of Transformation on Oct. 8 at the West Hollywood Library.
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7 months ago
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Cody Sisco
7 months ago
WeHo Reads: Voices of Transformation Wed., Oct. 8 | 6:30–8 pm In Person: West Hollywood Library Community Room Free, RSVP:
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@damnedpoet.bsky.social
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
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Coming soon the Barnes & Noble at the Grove Jase Peeples signs and discusses TWIRL with Tracy E. Gilchrist
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#yanovel
#mmromance
#lgbtnovel
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Jase Peeples signs and discusses TWIRL with Tracy E. Gilchrist
Barnes & Noble The Grove welcomes Jase Peeples and Tracy E. Gilchrist to discuss TWIRL on August 24th at 5:00 PM!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jase-peeples-signs-and-discusses-twirl-with-tracy-e-gilchrist-tickets-1543120959329
8 months ago
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Joe McClean, screenwriter, director, and author of Sins of Survivors, joins host Cody Sisco in conversation about his debut novel rooted in the history of Black Bottom, Detroit.
www.bookswell.club/podcast/23-j...
#podcast
#authorinterview
#newepisode
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8 months ago
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Daniel A. Olivas
9 months ago
Tisha Reichle-Aguilera, author of the YA novel Breaking Pattern, joins Cody Sisco in conversation about rodeo sports, growing up in SoCal, difficult family relationships, and challenging gender norms and socio-economic status.
www.bookswell.club/podcast/22-t...
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22 Tisha Reichle-Aguilera interview – BookSwell
https://www.bookswell.club/podcast/22-tisha-reichle-aguilera-interview/
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WeHo Reads: Richard Blanco and Kim Dower in Conversation During National Poetry Month was an inspiring evening of poetry and discussion. And so much fun! You can watch the recording on the WeHo Arts YouTube Channel here:
www.youtube.com/live/Hl4WxKn...
#NationalPoetryMonth
#Poets
#literaryreading
12 months ago
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Perugia Press
12 months ago
Lynne Thompson recently joined BookSwell host Cody Sisco in conversation about her most recent collection, Blue on a Blue Palette (BOA, 2024). You can watch it on YouTube or listen on the BookSwell site (
bookswell.club
) or on Spotify or Apple.
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Tonight! WeHo Reads: Richard Blanco and Kim Dower in Conversation During National Poetry Month on April 16, 2025 at 6:30-8 pm PT via Zoom and YouTube. RSVP:
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#NationalPoetryMonth
#poetryreading
#poets
12 months ago
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Meet Richard Blanco with Kim Dower during National Poetry Month. Richard is the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet, selected by President Obama, and a National Humanities Medal recipient. WeHo Reads April 16, 2025 6:30-8 pm PT on Zoom and YouTube RSVP Requested:
www.weho.org/wehoreads/
#poetry
about 1 year ago
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Save the date! A conversation about poetry with Kim Dower and Richard Blanco. April 16, 2025 at 6:30-8 pm PT via Zoom and YouTube. RSVP:
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#NationalPoetryMonth
#Poets
#authorevent
#literaryreading
@poetrichardblanco.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
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Let's talk about books! BookSwell is at the AWP Book Expo at T271. We're giving away books by our featured authors to folx who sign up to our newsletter. Stop by and say hi!
#AWP25
about 1 year ago
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🎙️ New podcast alert 🎙️ Lynne Thompson, Fourth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, joins host Cody Sisco in conversation about her most recent collection of poetry, Blue on a Blue Palette.
www.bookswell.club/podcast/21-l...
#poetry
#poetlaureate
#podcast
#newepisode
about 1 year ago
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Coming soon! This Wednesday, four fab authors discuss feminism and fearlessness. What is the antidote to hopelessness? Community. Join us.
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#Booksky
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about 1 year ago
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Read Lisbeth Coiman's READ LOCAL preview of Olga García Echeverría's FALLING ANGELS and then join us for a discussion on March 19.
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about 1 year ago
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Join us in reading local in March! For Women’s History Month, we selected fiction and poetry to awaken the fearless feminist inside you.
www.bookswell.club/readlocal/re...
#readinglist
#booksky
#bookclub
#WomensHistoryMonth
#writers
#authorevent
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about 1 year ago
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WeHo Reads: Feminism and Fearlessness During Women’s History Month on March 19, 2025, 6:30-8 pm PT. Participating writers will include: Katya Apekina, Olga García Echeverría, Angelina Sáenz, and Kate Stayman-London RSVP:
www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads...
#WomensHistoryMonth
#Booksky
about 1 year ago
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What an exceptional evening of poetry and discussion! WeHo Reads: Power and Progress During Black History Month
www.youtube.com/live/vytRTGN...
#BlackHistoryMonth
#writingcommunity
#poetry
#authorevent
#literature
#blackwriters
about 1 year ago
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Starting soon! 6:30 pm PT WeHo Reads: Power and Progress During Black History Month
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#BlackHistoryMonth
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WeHo Reads: Power and Progress during Black History Month
The series opener for WeHo Reads 2025 will feature four dynamic writers delving into untold histories, urgent social issues, and resilience.
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about 1 year ago
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You're invited to WeHo Reads: Power and Progress during Black History Month on February 26, 2025, 6:30-8 pm PT on Zoom and YouTube. Featuring Angela M. Franklin, Jenise Miller, Pam Ward, Romaine Washington, and special guest Reggie Myles. RSVP:
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#BlackHistoryMonth
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WeHo Reads: Power and Progress during Black History Month
The series opener for WeHo Reads 2025 will feature four dynamic writers delving into untold histories, urgent social issues, and resilience.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads-power-and-progress-during-black-history-month-tickets-1221516230929?aff=social
about 1 year ago
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Call for Donations to Altadena Library Foundation 🙏 Donate via Libraries United on
Networkforgood.com
:
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And RSVP for Feb. 26 WeHo Reads: Power and Progress During Black History Month
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackAuthors
#authorevent
about 1 year ago
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Donate to Pasadena Black Equity Project 🙏
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The Pasadena Black Equity Project is a community-based organization that organizes a network of resources for Black Pasadena residents through mutual aid funding, community archiving, and political education.
about 1 year ago
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