5 - 7 pm, PDT. FREE. 50th anniversary of the Chicano Rebellion. A discussion panel featuring Myriam Gurba, Congressman Joaquin Castro, LA Times writer Daniel Hernandez, labor activist Neidi Dominguez, Univision anchor Yarel Ramos, along with LA Mayor Eric Garcetti and actor Edward James Olmos, and a screening of the Phillip Rodriguez-directed documentary “Ruben Salazar:
The Real American Dirt: Roberto Lovato in conversation with Myriam Gurba about Roberto's book "Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in The Americas". Presented by City Lights Books in San Francisco.
Emmy award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa presents her new book, ONCE I WAS YOU, for Politics and Prose. About this Event In Once I Was You, Maria Hinojosa shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the south side of Chicago and documenting the existential wasteland of immigration detention camps for news outlets that often
After American Dirt: Criticism as Liberation A keynote address buy the author of Mean and “Pendeja, You Ain’t Steinbeck” PennState College of the Liberal Arts Thursday, Oct 15, 6pm On Zoom - email sandoval@psu.edu for the link
Charis welcomes Felicia Luna Lemus in conversation with Myriam Gurba for a conversation of Lemus' collection of still lifes, landscapes, and portraits, Particulate Matter. Particulate Matter is the story of a year in Felicia Luna Lemus's marriage when the world turned upside down. It's set in Los Angeles, and it's about love and crisis, loss
Join us for a special event on December 5 from 7-9 pm featuring readings from ten of the most exciting voices writing in and around Philadelphia today. More than another Zoom event, this will be an innovative video program produced by award-winning local cinematographer Aly Spengler. Featured writers will perform words written by their heroes
Loyalty Bookstore is honored to host an anniversary event for Dignidad Literaria in conversation with Minorities in Publishing Podcast. This will be a fascinating conversation about the publishing industry and what actions we've seen in the past year from publishers to requests made, and more.
For Women’s History Month Myriam Gurba, author of "Mean" talks to Randa Jarrar about her new memoir, "Love is an Ex-Country". With musical guest Kelly Caballero. Program can be viewed on the WeHo Arts Youtube Channel WeHo Reads is partnering with Book Soup for book sales and we highly encourage you to buy author books and
‘Mean’ Myriam Gurba’s memoir is the California Book Club’s April 2021 selection. Mean is a book of ghosts, a series of refrains and recollections, a memoir that is also a true-crime narrative, written in a voice that is sharp and poetic, that gets underneath the skin. It is also a book of guilt and responsibility, a
Gurba shines a light on creepy cultures and the systems of oppression that shape women’s lives. Myriam Gurba in conversation with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd. A creep can be a singular figure, a villain who makes things go bump in the night. Myriam Gurba’s new essay collection, a mix of true crime, memoir, and history, is an
Myriam Gurba in conversation with Norma Fabian Newton.
Myriam Gurba joins us at Greedy Reads in Remington for the release of her new essay collection Creep. Myriam will be in conversation with Baltimore author Jeannie Vanasco.
Creep: Myriam Gurba in Conversation with Sheila Quintana Aguilar In Creep, her new essay collection, Myriam Gurba takes a deep dive into the dark recesses of the toxic traditions that plague our books, schools, and homes. With a razor-sharp mind and wry humor, Gurba implicates everyone from Joan Didion to her own former abuser and
In conversation with Lupita Aquino. In-person reading, discussion, audience Q&A and book-signing. Creep is Myriam Gurba's informal sociology of creeps, a deep dive into the dark recesses of the toxic traditions that plague the United States and create the abusers who haunt our books, schools, and homes. Through cultural criticism disguised as personal essay, Gurba studies
In-person reading, discussion, Audience Q&A and book-signing with Myriam Gurba at Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon
Third Place Books is thrilled to welcome artist and activist Myriam Gurba in conversation by queer icon and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Gurba will be discussing her new book, Creep: Accusations and Confessions, a ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection. Creep is Gurba’s informal sociology of creeps, a deep dive into the dark recesses of the toxic traditions that plague the United States and create the abusers who haunt our books, schools, and homes.
MYRIAM GURBA, AUTHOR OF CREEP & MEAN, IN CONVERSATION WITH ROBERTO LOVATO A creep can be a singular figure, a villain who makes things go bump in the night. Yet creep is also what the fog does—it lurks into place to do its dirty work, muffling screams, obscuring the truth, and providing cover for those
Myriam Gurba reads from Creep: Accusations and Confessions This event will be held in the Poetry Room. It will also be broadcast on zoom. To experience the virtual part of the event you will need a device that can access the internet and registration is required. Registration is available through Event Brite. This event is
Myriam Gurba discusses and signs "Creep: Accusations and Confessions". Join us on Thursday September 21st at 6:30 pm as we welcome Myriam Gurba to the store to discuss and sign Creep: Accusations and Confessions. This event is free to attend and will be held in the courtyard at DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood. Free seating
Charis welcomes Myriam Gurba in conversation with Randa Jarrar for a discussion of Creep: Accusations and Confessions, a ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and toxicity that has wormed its way into society—in our books, schools, and homes, as well as the systems that perpetuate them—from the acclaimed author of Mean, and one of our fiercest, foremost explorers of intersectional Latinx identity.