Parton’s Imagination Library will provide California children younger than 5 with a free book - available in English or Spanish - every month.įather’s Day browsing: Are these “The 21 Best Books About Fatherhood”? From Esquire. Imagination Library: Singer and author Dolly Parton is expanding her free books program to children across all 58 counties of California. Keep readingįamily saga: How COVID and an antique marriage bed inspired Lisa See’s new historical novel, “ Lady Tan’s Circle of Women.” Get tickets: This virtual event will be live streaming at 6 p.m. “Better Living Through Birding” delves into the Central Park incident and also is a travelogue, birding primer and memoir about Cooper’s life as an activist, nature lover and comic book creator. Cooper had asked the woman to leash her dog and recorded the encounter. 16 to discuss “Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World.”Ī science and comics writer and editor, Cooper will be in conversation with Times writer Carla Hall about his memoir and his new National Geographic series, “Extraordinary Birder,” which follows Cooper’s avian adventures around the world.Ĭooper made headlines in May 2020 after a white woman called police saying he threatened her and her dog in New York’s Central Park. Book club goes to the birdsĬhristian Cooper, the avid birdwatcher whose story went viral after he was falsely accused of threatening a woman in Central Park, joins book club readers Aug. We’ll also feature your name at the next book club night. You’ll help us produce more in-person and virtual book club conversations throughout the year. Join us: If you value our community book club, please sign on as a supporter of the Los Angeles Times Community Fund. Two longtime Times readers separately told me at May’s banned book night how much comfort our meet-ups brought during the pandemic and how much they enjoy the books we read together. Thank you to all readers who join us every month, who show up at in-person and virtual events, and take the time to send so many comments, questions and suggestions. Times Book Club turns 4, here’s a look at where we’ve been. Times Book Club debuted with Susan Orlean, author of “The Library Book,” set in Los Angeles’ Central Library.Īs the L.A. It all began on June 25, 2019, when the L.A. We’ve read works by activists and actors, National Book Award honorees, poets laureate and Pulitzer Prize winners, acclaimed filmmakers, world-class chefs and bestselling novelists, the world’s most renowned naturalist and a tennis legend who learned to play on the public courts of Long Beach. president and the priest who founded Homeboy Industries. That’s been our mission, and our joy, for four years and counting.Īlong the way, we’ve welcomed a U.S. We celebrate the world of ideas and getting lost in a great story. Times Book Club brings Los Angeles together every month. Q&A: What would you like to ask Luis Alberto Urrea? As you read the book, share your questions and comments in an email to Book club turns 4 Sign up on Eventbrite for this live streaming book club night. Urrea will discuss “Good Night, Irene” with Times editor Iliana Limon Romero at 6 p.m. “I think you have to get to a certain place in life to trust that a dear boy’s story about his mama is as important as a daring, hard-boiled investigation into the Border Patrol and a hideous death in the desert,” Urrea told The Times.
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