SKYLIGHT BOOKS
JULY 2012 NEWS AND EVENTS
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Just up the street at the Autry Museum!
Sat, July 14, 2 to 4p.m.
GoWEST Reading Series: Peter Westwick
Peter Westwick discusses and signs his book Blue Sky Metropolis. Featuring essays by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars and writers, this volume investigates the intersection of aerospace and Southern California through the lenses of anthropology, history of science and technology, labor, business, ethnicity and gender, architecture, and the environment.
Location: Autry's Imagination Gallery
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Gabe's View from the Skylight
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Imagine the following: You. Full stop. Pretty boring, huh? Little lonely, too. Nothing personal, just saying.
Now imagine: You. And the new Skylight Tote. You and the Skylight Tote and a secret beach in Malibu. A thermos of bourbon margaritas. In the Skylight Tote. Peaches. A Lemon tart. Goldfish crackers. Skylight Tote. Skylight Tote. Skylight Tote. SPF what-have-ya. The Yo La Tango mix tape you lost in '98. The Walkman that melted in your car window. A few solid Skylight Staff Recommendations full of laughs, surprises and a couple of tears. Skylight. Tote. You peer down into the Skylight Tote and you see what the rest of summer holds in store. You like what you see. You like it a lot. (Not saying the tote's magic, but not saying it's not.)
As "My Little Corner of the World" plays and the sun sets on Beach Which Shall Not Be Named Beach, you think: "Glad I got that Skylight Tote."
Gabe gabe@skylightbooks.com
Note: New Skylight Books tote ($11.95) designed by Skylight Staffer / artist Frieda Gossett |
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Tuesday, July 3rd at 7:30 p.m.
You Take It From Here (Gallery Books)
 Los Angeles-based author Pamela Ribon launches her new novel You Take It from Here!
Ribon is the bestselling author of the novels Why Girls Are Weird, Why Moms Are Weird, and Going in Circles. A writer for stage, screen, and television, her credits include the Emmy Award-winning Samantha Who? Visit her popular blog at pamie.com, or find her in the dictionary under "muffin top." (That is not a joke.)
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Friday, July 6th at 7:30 p.m.
Believe You Me (2nd Cannons)
 Acclaimed L.A.-based artist Ry Rocklen will discuss his art practice, with particular attention to the work in his book Believe You Me. In addition, he will discuss his art installation for L.A.'s first biennial, Made in L.A., at the Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park.
As a child growing up in Los Angeles, Rocklen was particularly interested in the overlooked and unseen, the lost and the abandoned. This interest has persisted and developed into the foundation of his artistic practice. His current work consists of the reclamation and exaltation of found objects and materials. Through simple alteration and addition the abandoned and discarded are given a second life as sculpture. Through these alterations Rocklen seeks to intensify the poetics, pathos, and mystery embedded in ordinary things.
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PEN CENTER USAEMERGING VOICES
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Saturday, July 7th at 5:00 p.m.
PEN Center USA will present an informational
panel of current and former Emerging Voices fellows and mentors for the benefit of interested applicants.
Drinks to follow.
Emerging Voices is a literary fellowship program that aims to provide new writers, who lack access, with the tools they will need to launch a professional writing career. Over the course of the year, each Emerging Voices fellow participates in: a professional mentorship; hosted Q & A evenings with prominent local authors; a series of Master classes focused on genre; and two or more public readings. The fellowship includes a $1,000 stipend.
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Tuesday, July 10th at 7:30 p.m.
I Suck at Girls (It Books) 
Halpern, the very funny man behind the bestselling book Sh*t My Dad Says, returns to Skylight to discuss and sign his hilarious new memoir.
"Leaves no question about his writing talent. Halpern is a comic genius who perfected the art of crafting succinct descriptive narrative through his daily practice of drafting 140-character tweets." --San Diego Union Tribune
Photo of the author by Matt Hoyle.
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Wednesday, July 11th at 7:30 p.m.
Parsifal (Tin House Books)
Krusoe, described by The New York Times Book Review as "among the foremost creators of surreal Americana," launches his newest novel, Parsifal.
Praise for Toward You:
"Jim Krusoe is the mad scientist, the man behind the curtain . . . Krusoe does something magical with regular words and regular life." --Los Angeles Times
"Jim Krusoe once again proves himself a master of dialogue, sublime wit, and unforgettable characters." --LargeHeartedBoy
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Fiction: G. WILLOW WILSON
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Thursday, July 12th at 7:30 p.m.
Alif the Unseen (Grove Press)
 Graphic novelist and memoirist G. Willow Wilson (Air, Vixen, The Butterfly Mosque) will read and sign her highly anticipated debut prose novel, Alif the Unseen.
"G. Willow Wilson has a deft hand with myth and with magic, and the kind of smart, honest writing mind that knits together and bridges cultures and people. You should read what she writes." -Neil Gaiman
"In Alif the Unseen [Wilson] spins her insights into an exuberant fable that has thrills, chills and - even more remarkably - universal appeal." --The New York Times
Photo of the author by Amber French
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Fiction: CHRISTOPHER BEHA
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Friday, July 13th at 7:30 p.m.
What Happened to Sophie Wilder (Tin House Books)
Christopher Beha, author of the memoir The Whole Five Feet, will read and sign his debut novel, What Happened to Sophia Wilder.
"A thoughtful journey about the place of intellectual curiosity in relation to faith, friendship, and love." --Publishers Weekly
"...What Happened to Sophie Wilder manages, somehow, to read both like an auspicious debut and a veteran achievement: it offers at once the vivid, old-fashioned pleasures of a classic bildungsroman and a frighteningly intelligent contemporary take on the ambitions and limits of storytelling and faith. It's a glass-and-steel penthouse on a foundation of oak, and the most memorable first novel I've read in some time." --Gideon Lewis-Kraus, author of A Sense of Direction
Photo of the author by Josephine Sittenfeld
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Nonfiction:
DEANNE STILLMAN
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Saturday, July 14th at 5:00 p.m.
Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, A Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History (Nation Books)
Deanne Stillman, author of the widely acclaimed book of literary nonfiction, Twentynine Palms: A True Story of Murder, Marines, and the Mojave, and the bestselling Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West, returns to Skylight to discuss and sign her latest, Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History. It is based on her award-winning Rolling Stone piece "Mojave Manhunt." It was eight years in the making and is an epic tale of life in the shadowlands of 21st century Los Angeles.
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Special guests read fromOUT SPKEN: A VITO RUSSO READER
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Sunday, July 15th at 5:00 p.m.
Out Spoken: A Vito Russo Reader (White Crane Books)
Bruce Vilanch, Jeffrey Schwarz, Michael Kearns, Mark Thompson, and other special guests will read from the new anthology of the writings of film historian and gay activist Vito Russo, perhaps best known as the author of the seminal book of film criticism, The Celluloid Closet.
"Vito Russo was an incisive film historian, a fiery activist, and a sweet, gentle guy. All his textures are beautifully captured in these collected works, which reinforce his standing as a literate provocateur who helped create the modern gay movement." -- Michael Musto, Village Voice
These books are published to coincide with a new documentary by Jeffrey Schwarz, Vito, airing on HBO in July, so be sure to check out this performance of Russo's writing in his own words before seeing the new film on his life!
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Monday, July 16th at 7:30 p.m.
The World Without You (Pantheon)
 Acclaimed novelist Joshua Henkin reads and signs his third book, The World Without You, a poignant novel about sibling rivalries, marriage in crisis, and the aftermath of family tragedy.
"It's no secret that Henkin is a writer of voluminous heart, humanity, and talent." --Julia Glass, author of The Widower's Tale
"An immeasurably moving masterpiece that tracks the intricate threads connecting children to parents, sisters to brothers, wives to husbands. To say I 'cared' about these characters would be to hugely understate their consuming effect on me." --Heidi Julavits, author of The Vanishers
Photo of the author by Matthew Polis.
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Fiction: KAROLINA WACLAWIAK
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Tuesday, July 17th at 7:30 p.m.
How To Get Into the Twin Palms (Two Dollar Radio)
 Karolina Waclawiak will read and sign her hilarious new novel, How to Get Into the Twin Palms.
"Waclawiak takes the immigrant novel and spins it on its head. A great addition to 1.5 generation literature, beautifully written, funny and touching." --Gary Shteyngart
Photo of the author by Matthew Porter.
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Memoir & Fiction: PAULA PRIAMOS & DANA JOHNSON
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Friday, July 20th at 7:30 p.m.
The Shyster's Daughter (Etruscan Press) by Priamos
Elsewhere, California (Counterpoint) by Johnson
  L.A.-based writers Priamos and Johnson read and sign their powerful new books: The Shyster's Daughter, a memoir by Priamos about her deeply flawed father; and Elsewhere, California, a coming-of-age novel set in Los Angeles from Johnson, the award-winning author of Break Any Woman Down. |
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Wednesday, July 25th at 7:30 p.m.
Sorry Please Thank You (Pantheon Books)
Skylight welcomes back L.A. author Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, to launch his new short story collection.
Praise for How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe:
"Glittering layers of gorgeous and playful meta-science-fiction . . . A complex, brainy, genre-hopping joyride of a story [that is] smart and tragic enough to engage all regions of the brain and body." --The New York Times Book Review
"Compulsively rereadable . . . Hilarious." --Los Angeles Times
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- 20% off selected Skylight bestsellers (updated weekly) and other featured titles
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(between Hollywood Blvd and Franklin)
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323 660-1175
Next door to the Los Feliz Cinema and across the street from the Post Office
We are about 4 blocks north of the Vermont/Sunset subway stop and directly on many bus routes, including the Hollywood DASH. Bicycle racks are in front of the store. |
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