Skylight Books Author Reading Series

The Rattling Wall

Contributors to this exciting new literary journal will read from their included work!

Readers and authors include:

James Greer Lou Mathews Jessica Garrison Kathleen Tyler Lisa Giaffo

Find out more about this new Los Angeles based journal at:

http://therattlingwall.com/

THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS JUNE 23, 2011.

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Take One Candle Light a Room (Pantheon)

Novelist Susan Straight (A Million Nightingales) returns to Skylight to read and sign her latest novel, Take One Candle Light a Room!

"A searing, ultimately redemptive novel about America’s legacy of racial violence and a woman’s struggle to forge her own identity. . . . Deeply rooted in the African-American experience, yet filled with insights that resonate for anyone seeking to make a better life without disowning the past. Straight writes about the thorny subject of race with sensitivity and nuance." --Kirkus Reviews

Susan Straight is the author of six novels, including A Million Nightingales and the National Book Award finalist Highwire Moon. She has written for The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Magazine, and NPR’s All Things Considered. Her short stories have won an Edgar Award and an O. Henry Award. She teaches at the University of California, Riverside.

THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS OCTOBER 12, 2010.

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Keep Sweet (Simon Pulse)

Michele Dominguez Greene will read from and sign her powerful new young adult novel about a Mormon fundamentalist girl's struggle to escape a forced polygamist marriage.

Michele Dominguez Greene has had a long-standing successful career as an actress, appearing in television, film, and theater.  She received an Emmy nomination for her role as Abigail Perkins on the NBC series, “L.A. Law”, and she is currently recurring in HBO's “Big Love” and ABC's “Brothers and Sisters.” Greene’s debut novel, Chasing the Jaguar is included on reading lists around the country.  She lives with her family in Los Angeles. Visit her at michelegreene.com.

THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS JULY 6, 2010.

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We're Getting On (Flatmancrooked)

A launch party for the new novel by James Kaelan, We're Getting On! This is the kickoff for a "zero-emissions book tour," on which the author will be touring from Los Angeles to Vancouver, all on bicycle.  The book is also biodegradable, and the cover is made out of a specialty paper that contains spruce tree seeds. You can plant the book and it becomes, literally, the very thing books are made of.

"James Kaelan is a fine, intelligent writer. We’re Getting On is so elegantly and imaginatively written that it should be a significant debut.” --Ha Jin

James Kaelan is the author of the novel We're Getting On, which grows into a tree, and which he's touring this summer by bicycle. When he isn't writing or training, he teaches at Pepperdine University and writes criticism for TheMillions.com. His short fiction has appeared in Best New Writing, Monkeybicycle, Avery, and Opium, amongst others.

THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS JULY 2, 2010.

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