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An Evening with Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
The Skirball presents an online discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and authors Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, whose book
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, inspired the Skirball s current online exhibition. The conversation and Q&A will be moderated by Eric Liu, co-founder and CEO of Citizen University. Signed books aare available for purchase at bronxriverbooks.com.
Artist Arshile Gorky, pictured here in childhood with his mother, inspired the collaborative film, They Will Take My Island. (Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Tuesday, Jan. 26; 4 p.m. PST
They Will Take My Island
Meet Amanda Gorman s mentors: The teachers who nurtured the inauguration poet Julia Barajas © (WriteGirl) Amanda Gorman at 15, reading at Skylight Books in Los Feliz as part of the WriteGirl mentorship program, in 2013. (WriteGirl)
Shelly Fredman, a third grade teacher at New Roads School in Santa Monica, spent a good chunk of Inauguration Day in tears.
From her home in View Park-Windsor Hills, she watched National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman take the stage at the Capitol. And as the 22-year-old stood before a sea of state flags and the Washington Monument and read The Hill We Climb, Fredman recalled the precocious little girl who d listen raptly to her class readings.
The Last Bookstore in DTLA
From drowning in debt to lines out the door, local outlets have readjusted the way they do business nine months after the COVID-19 outbreak hit the U.S.
With COVID-19 cases rising and a new stay-at-home order in effect, indie bookstores in Los Angeles continue to tread water amid an overwhelming storm. Throw in the first holiday season of the pandemic era and bookstores are enduring even more challenges in what would usually be the most lucrative time of the year.
When The Hollywood Reporter last spoke to several bookstores in March at the start of the pandemic store owners were forced to cut staff, focus on online sales and ponder the idea of opening their doors again. Now nine months later and in the midst of the holiday season, local bookstores are open at 20 percent capacity and have found salvation by reinventing themselves and creating safe and enjoyable ways to remain connected to their communities.
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