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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is a free, public festival celebrating the written word. [1] It is the largest book festival in the United States, drawing approximately 150,000 attendees annually. [2] The festival began in 1996 and is held on the penultimate weekend of April, hosted by the University of Southern California. It features ...
Doris Gates (November 26, 1901 – September 3, 1987) was one of America's first writers of realistic children's fiction.Her novel Blue Willow, about the experiences of Janey Larkin, the ten-year-old daughter of a migrant farm worker in 1930s California, is a Newbery Honor book and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner.
In 2016, sisters Leah and Bea Koch opened North America's first romance-only bookstore in Los Angeles, and last year, the Ripped Bodice opened their second location in Brooklyn, and it's quickly ...
Blue Willow is a realistic children's fiction book by Doris Gates, published in 1940.Called the "juvenile Grapes of Wrath", [1] it was named a Newbery Honor book in 1941. . Written by a librarian who worked with migrant children in Fresno, California, this story of a migrant girl who longs for a permanent home was considered groundbreaking in its portrayal of contemporary working-class life in A
Dave and Judy were extremely knowledgeable and happy to speak with customers regarding literature, Southern California history or any other topic. The store also provided books for various movie and television shows. Steady customers, friendly staff and the welcoming owners, made the store an ideal place to while away a Sunday afternoon. [1]
The 100-year-old building at 626 Grand Ave. was the perfect space Richards was looking for to carve her way into the Abilene book scene. The bookstore with its signature blue door was a dream for ...
Circus of Books, also known as Chi Chi LaRue's Circus, is a bookstore and gay pornography shop in West Hollywood, California. It was established in the 1960s as "Book Circus", and in the past also had branches in the Silver Lake and Sherman Oaks neighborhoods of Los Angeles .
The Greenwich Village club — long regarded as one of New York's elite spaces for jazz — will open a new venue in Hollywood in March, with 200- and 100-capacity performance rooms and a full ...