Literary Arts


Rattle Magazine Presents Issue #40: Open Poetry

Rattle magazine will host the sixth installment of the 2013 Rattle Reading Series on Sunday, June 2nd, 5:00 p.m. at Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse (1010 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada-Flintridge). Every first Sunday, Rattle continues to gather a selection of performers from around the country for a series of poetry readings to celebrate the summer issue. Releasing ...

A Noise Within Presents Four Free Play Readings

A Noise Within (ANW) continues this season’s “Words Within” Wednesday night play reading series with four free, one-night-only readings this summer at its Pasadena theatre: The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, based on the 1880 Henry James novel Washington Square, on June 5, 2013, 7 pm; The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg, considered one ...

“Grangerized” Books Take Center Stage at Upcoming Huntington Exhibition

The eccentric art of customizing printed books by adding illustrations is the focus of a new exhibition going on view at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in July. “Illuminated Palaces: Extra-Illustrated Books from The Huntington Library” runs from July 27 to Oct. 28, 2013, in the West Hall of the Library. The ...

Red Hen Press at Art Center, a Spring Event to Remember

On April 23, 2013, over fifty readers, art lovers, and patrons gathered on the rooftop of Art Center College of Design’s South Campus for an evening of poetry and fine art. The event—a spring fundraiser for Red Hen Press—helped raise $3,500 for the literary press which has called Pasadena home since January 2010. The event ...

Live Stream Event of Dan Brown’s Evening of Codes, Symbols and Secrets

Pasadena Public Library will host a Live Stream Event of Dan Brown, the # 1 international bestselling author at Lincoln Center – An Evening of Codes, Symbols and Secrets on Wednesday, May 15 at 4:30 p.m. in Central Library’s Donald R. Wright Auditorium, 285 E. Walnut St. This unique publishing event will be Brown’s only ...

Red Phoenix Rising at LitFest

Science is what drives people to reach for the stars, and helping make Science accessible to kids ensures that humanity doesn’t stop reaching. In this year’s LitFest Pasadena 2.0 – a celebration of the literary arts that will feature more than 75 authors, storytellers, performers and exhibitors – one of the more interesting participants is ...

Red Hen Press at Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Association with the Poetry Society of America

Red Hen Press will be at Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Association with the Poetry Society of America featuring Poet Laureate Eloise Klein Healy, Author Maggie Nelson and author of the poetry collections, Once (2011), Meghan O’Rourke, on May 7th at 7:00 p.m. Eloise Klein Healy is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Los Angles. ...

Thornton Wilder Talk by the Legendary Playwright’s Nephew at A Noise Within

Tappan Wilder, nephew of and literary executor for legendary playwright and author Thornton Wilder, discusses the life and legacy of his celebrated uncle, at a special illustrated talk, “Thornton Wilder’s Versatile Pen,” presented by A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company, on Sunday, May 5, 2013, 5:30 pm, at its Pasadena theatre. ...

A Noise Within Presents a Free Reading of “Late: A Cowboy Song” by Two-Time Pulitzer Prize-Nominee Sarah Ruhl

A Noise Within (ANW), the classical repertory theatre company, offers a free, one-night-only reading of Sarah Ruhl’s humorous and heartbreaking, “Late: A Cowboy Song,” on Wednesday, April 17, 7:00 p.m., as part of its “Words Within” reading series at its Pasadena theatre. Directed by Susan Angelo and featuring A Noise Within resident artists, Ruhl’s genre-defying ode ...

Art Center College of Design Student Armen Gharabegian Announced Publication of Protocol 7

First-time author Armen Gharabegian, an Art Center College of Design graduate, today announced the publication of Protocol 7, a novel that represents the first installment of a high-tech, high-adventure trilogy that delves into the murky underworld of global conspiracy in the not-so-distant future. “The ideas behind Protocol 7 have been fomenting for decades,” said Gharabegian, ...

The Art of Wealth: The Huntingtons in the Gilded Age

If Downton Abbey had been an American country house, this family might have inhabited it. A groundbreaking new book about to be released by the Huntington Library Press, the publishing arm of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, provides powerful new insights into the lives, remarkable wealth, collecting, and philanthropy of the Huntington ...

Retired Church Workers Pen Vibrant Stories in Newly Released Book

Not all spiritual journeys are spiritual. Sometimes they take the pregnant wife of a missionary across the frozen tundra of Alaska in a dogsled, turn a teenager into a seagoing cowboy, land a retired minister on the stage at Carnegie Hall, encounter an angry Taliban commander in Kabul, or reveal the wealth of diversity on ...

Great Reading, Recycled

A book requires trees to make. But there’s an unusual local bookstore that saves trees and helps the ecology. How? By offering used, recycled books that are still in good condition. That’s Book Rack in Arcadia. For over 25 years, the bookstore has been carrying thousands of used paperbacks and hardbacks that are still in ...