The end is near for downtown's Metropolis Book Store, a pioneer on Main Street when it opened in 2006, that will finish its last chapter at the end of this month.
Don't blame Kindle and Amazon for this bookstore shuttering — owner Julie Swayze said she's closing the store to focus on caring for a sick family member.
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Cameras Begin Rolling As Downtown's Metropolis Books Begins Closing
Get Out: Visit Metropolis Books Before It Closes, Commune with Betty Hutton's Spirit, See How Chicano Art Stormed the Establishment
Get out! Visit Metropolis Books one last time, reapply your lipstick until someone gives you a reason not to and learn about how the art establishment loves it when you tag their buildings — but they might take a few decades to admit it.
Gossip Rags Aren't The Only Things We Read: In LA, Local Bookstores Make the A-List
Tinseltown, Southland, The Entertainment Capital of the World, El Lay, The City of Angels, Hell-A, La La Land —LA has its share of nicknames, but none seem to give our city due credit for the wealth of literature housed among these trafficked streets. Thanks to an unfortunate reputation as a not-so-literary city, LA local bookshops are often and unduly overlooked. But, forget what you might have heard (or haven’t heard, for that matter). Our local bookstores are big, small, specific, general, used, new, and all-around unique. Here are some of LA’s best independent bookstores:
Get Your Lit On: The Oh So Quiet, Long Holiday Weekend is Approaching Week in Bookish LA
Nathaniel Mackey presents and signs Bass Cathedral 7pm @ Book Soup
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
Cindy Pierce and Edie Thys Morgan presents Finding the Doorbell 7pm @ Book Soup
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
The week in Los Angeles bookish events from Monday, January 7th - Sunday, January 13th. Readings, signings and bookish events this week include Andy Summers, Jami Attenberg, Judith Freeman, Alice Fulton, J.A. Jance and Robert Gottlieb.
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish L.A.
Sue Grafton signs T is for Trespass 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
Robert Hass presents Time & Materials 7pm @ Central Library
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
Monday Dave Isay, from StoryCorps, presents Listening Is an Act of Love 7pm @ Vroman's Johan Lehrer presents Proust Was a Neuroscientist 7pm @ Dutton's Nigella Lawson presents The Domestic Goddess 7pm Borders, Torrance Tom Brokaw presents Boom! Voices of the Sixties 7:30pm @ Temple Emanuel Tuesday Clive Barker presents Mister B. Gone 7pm @ Vroman's Gregory Rodriguez presents Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans & Vagabonds 7pm @ Central Library Susanne Daniels presents Season Finale 7pm @...
Get Your Lit On: The Spooky Week in Bookish LA
Jason Goodwin discusses and signs The Snake Stone 7pm @ Vroman's
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
Red Hen Press poets read their work 8pm @ Boston Court Main Stage, Pasadena
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
Sy Safransky discusses his work and The Sun 7:30pm @ Beverly Hills Public Library
Get Your Lit On: The Vermin Week in Bookish LA
Monday Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson present Sandworms of Dune 7pm @ Book Soup Tuesday A.W. Hill presents The Last Days of Madame Rey 7pm @ Book Soup Brenda Scott Royce presents Monkey Star 7pm @ Vroman's Wednesday David Rosen presents I Just Want My Pants Back 7pm @ Pi on Sunset Thursday Gabe Rotter presents Duck Duck Wally 7pm @ Book Soup Simon Van Booy presents The Secret Lives of People in Love...
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
Monday Moonday poetry reading 7:30pm @ Village Books Tuesday David Lynch signs Inland Empire 7pm @ Borders, Westwood Elaine Dundy presents The Dud Avocado 7pm @ Book Soup Warren Mar presents Descanso 7pm @ Vroman's Kiara Brinkman signs High Up in the Trees 7pm @ Dutton's Wednesday Adrienne Barbeau presents There Are Worse Things I Could Do 7pm @ Book Soup Nobody Reads in LA presents Charles Bukowski's Post Office (it's his birthday!) 7pm...
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
Gordy Slack presents The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything 7pm @ Vroman's
Get Your Lit On: The Week After 4th of July Week in Bookish LA
If you haven't managed to rest-up after your July 4th blow-out, you get one more day. But that's it!
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
Trevor Corson discusses and signs The Zen of Fish 7pm @ Vroman's
LA Writers Rock -- The Creepy Edition
We live in a town of talent. A talented town. Yet, the talent that's making the most noise, is usually (dare we say it?) without talent. We think of Paris Hilton at this juncture. We think of the many would-be famesters that litter our clubs and sidewalks and cafes while off the set from their "reality" shows involving our fair beaches. While these no-talents (because haven't we established that?) run around and make a...
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
Joan Didion discusses The Year of Magical Thinking 8pm @ Music Center
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
Criss Angel presents Mindfreak: Secret Revelations 7pm @ Book Soup
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
Alix Ohlin on Why Mysteries Matter: Detectives, Literature, and Life 7pm @ Central Library
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA That Happens to Include a Lot of Sex
While we try to keep our lit event listings strictly...listings...we can't help but notice that a very slow week in book readings, signings and author events has resulted in a proliferation of erotic, sexy and just plain porn star events. What are the chances this has to do with the most over-hyped flower holiday of the year? Rather high, we'd guess.
Don't Drink & Drive, Drink & Walk
If walking the “self-guided” tour of downtown’s art galleries during the Downtown LA Art Walk isn’t your idea of a good time, consider being guided by a poet who plies you with alcohol and whispers words of poetry in your ears at each stop. Sound better? We thought so.
Get Your Lit On
It's the beginning of the year and we haven't even cracked a new book. Have you? Instead of feeling guilty for sitting on your lazy duff, go check out a reading. It's free, it's easy -- and they'll read to you! All you have to do is show up, sit back and heckle when the mood strikes. Actually, heckling during a reading is really kind of lame. That's more for Laugh Factory types. If...
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