SKYLIT: Liz Brown, “TWILIGHT MAN” w/ Alex Ross

Posted in literature, skylight books, los angeles, book stores, books, nonfiction, history, biography, skylit by skylightbooks on June 19th, 2021
In the booming 1920s, William Andrews Clark Jr. was one of the richest, most respected men in Los Angeles. The son of the mining tycoon known as "The Copper King of Montana," Clark launched the Los Angeles Philharmonic and helped create the Hollywood Bowl. He was also a man with secrets, including a lover named Harrison Post. A former salesclerk, Post enjoyed a lavish existence among Hollywood elites, but the men's money--and their homosexuality--made them targets, for the district attorney, their employees and, in Post's case, his own family. When Clark died suddenly, Harrison Post inherited a substantial fortune--and a wealth of trouble. From Prohibition-era Hollywood to Nazi prison camps to Mexico City nightclubs, Twilight Man tells the story of an illicit love and the battle over a family estate that would destroy one man's life.
 
Author Liz Brown discusses her book with Alex Ross.
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SKYLIT: “Katharine Coles, “THE STRANGER I BECOME”

Posted in skylight books, los angeles, book stores, books, poetry, essays, skylit by skylightbooks on June 16th, 2021
The Stranger I Become probes the permeable boundary between inner life and outer, thought and action, science and experience. Poet Katharine Coles begins her lyric essays with a meditation on "the urge to move beyond, to understand myself as a stranger, estranged." The essays travel, always on foot, from Coles's home with its kept and wild birds, into the canyon her home overlooks, itself populated with creatures ranging from voles to owls, moose, bobcats, and coyotes. From there, always looking, always walking, in the company of the words that move her, they traverse her neighborhood and distant places in this country and the world. All along, they consider the poetry that inhabits her: the winged creatures of Dickinson, Ashbery's "reflections," Keats's "irritable reaching," Anne Carson's ever-unreachable apples, and more. Taken together, they make up what Lance Olsen calls "a poetics of the vivid."
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SKYLIT: Daniel Oppenheimer, “FAR FROM RESPECTABLE”

Posted in skylight books, los angeles, book stores, books, nonfiction, journalism, criticism, art, biography, skylit by skylightbooks on June 14th, 2021
Regarded as both a legend and a villain, the critic Dave Hickey has inspired generations of artists, art critics, musicians, and writers. His 1993 book The Invisible Dragon became a cult hit for its potent and provocative critique of the art establishment and its call to reconsider the role of beauty in art. His next book, 1997's Air Guitar, introduced a new kind of cultural criticism--simultaneously insightful, complicated, vulnerable, and down-to-earth--that propelled Hickey to fame as an iconoclastic thinker, loved and loathed in equal measure, whose influence extended beyond the art world. Far from Respectable is a focused, evocative exploration of Hickey's work, his impact on the field of art criticism, and the man himself, from his Huck Finn childhood to his drug-fueled periods as both a New York gallerist and Nashville songwriter to, finally, his anointment as a tenured professor and MacArthur Fellow. Drawing on in-person interviews with Hickey, his friends and family, and art world comrades and critics, Daniel Oppenheimer examines the controversial writer's distinctive takes on a broad range of subjects, including Norman Rockwell, Robert Mapplethorpe, academia, Las Vegas, basketball, country music, and considers how Hickey and his vision of an "ethical, cosmopolitan paganism" built around a generous definition of art is more urgently needed than ever before.
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SKYLIT: Lauren Aguirre, “THE MEMORY THIEF”

Posted in skylight books, los angeles, book stores, books, health, science, skylit by skylightbooks on June 12th, 2021
How could you lose your memory overnight, and what would it mean? The day neurologist Jed Barash sees the baffling brain scan of a young patient with devastating amnesia marks the beginning of a quest to answer those questions. First detected in a cluster of stigmatized opioid overdose victims in Massachusetts with severe damage to the hippocampus—the brain’s memory center—this rare syndrome reveals how the tragic plight of the unfortunate few can open the door to advances in medical science.

After overcoming initial skepticism that investigating the syndrome is worth the effort—and that fentanyl is the likely culprit—Barash and a growing team of dedicated doctors explore the threat that people who take opioids chronically as prescribed to treat severe pain may gradually put their memories at risk. At the same time, they begin to grasp the potential for this syndrome to shed light on the most elusive memory thief of all—Alzheimer’s disease.

Through the prism of this fascinating story, Lauren Aguirre goes on to examine how researchers tease out the fundamental nature of memory and the many mysteries still to be solved. Where do memories live? Why do we forget most of what happens in a day but remember some events with stunning clarity years later? How real are our memories? And what purpose do they actually serve?

Perhaps the greatest mystery in The Memory Thief is why Alzheimer’s has evaded capture for a century even though it afflicts tens of millions around the world and lies in wait for millions more. Aguirre deftly explores this question and reveals promising new strategies and developments that may finally break the long stalemate in the fight against this dreaded disease.

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SKYLIT: Dahlia Schweitzer, “HAUNTED HOMES”

Posted in skylight books, los angeles, book stores, books, Film, film/tv, horror, architecture, skylit by skylightbooks on June 9th, 2021

Haunted Homes is a short but groundbreaking study of homes in horror film and television. While haunted houses can be fun and thrilling, Hollywood horror tends to focus on haunted homes, places where the suburban American dream of safety and comfort has turned into a nightmare. From classic movies like The Old Dark House to contemporary works like Hereditary and the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House, Dahlia Schweitzer explores why haunted homes have become a prime stage for dramatizing anxieties about family, gender, race, and economic collapse. She traces how the haunted home film was intertwined with the expansion of American suburbia, but also explores works like The Witch and The Babadook, which transport the genre to different times and places. This lively and readable study reveals how and why an increasing number of films imagine that home is where the horror is.

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SKYLIT: Illana Masad, “ALL MY MOTHER’S LOVERS” + Jean Kyoung Frazier, “PIZZA GIRL”

Posted in literature, skylight books, los angeles, book stores, books, fiction, novels, skylit by skylightbooks on June 7th, 2021
Join Illana Masad (All My Mother's Lovers) and Jean Kyoung Frazier (Pizza Girl) as they discuss their respective books.
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SKYLIT: Anjali Enjeti, “THE PARTED EARTH”

Posted in skylight books, book stores, books, fiction, historical fiction, novels, skylit by skylightbooks on June 4th, 2021

The story begins in August 1947. Unrest plagues the streets of New Delhi leading up to the birth of the Muslim majority nation of Pakistan, and the Hindu majority nation of India. Sixteen-year-old Deepa navigates the changing politics of her home, finding solace in messages of intricate origami from her secret boyfriend Amir. Soon Amir flees with his family to Pakistan and a tragedy forces Deepa to leave the subcontinent forever.

The story also begins sixty years later and half a world away, in Atlanta. While grieving both a pregnancy loss and the implosion of her marriage, Deepa's granddaughter Shan begins the search for her estranged grandmother, a prickly woman who had little interest in knowing her. As she pieces together her family history shattered by the Partition, Shan discovers how little she actually knows about the women in her family and what they endured.

Join us as author Anjali Enjeti discusses her debut The Parted Earth.

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SKYLIT: X LA Poets Group Read

Posted in literature, skylight books, los angeles, book stores, books, poetry, skylit by skylightbooks on June 2nd, 2021
The anthology X LA Poets highlights the work of ten women poets defining what it means to call Los Angeles home, while at the same time, envisioning a futuristic, multitudinous Los Angeles. The panoply of poetic voices contained in this anthology will inspire and astound, celebrate and eviscerate the written word and the emotive breath.
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SKYLIT: Sara Sligar, “TAKE ME APART” w/ Steph Cha

Posted in literature, skylight books, los angeles, book stores, books, fiction, novels, skylit by skylightbooks on May 28th, 2021
When the famed photographer Miranda Brand died mysteriously at the height of her career, it sent shock waves through Callinas, California. Decades later, old wounds are reopened when her son Theo hires the ex-journalist Kate Aitken to archive his mother’s work and personal effects.

As Kate sorts through the vast maze of material and contends with the vicious rumors and shocking details of Miranda's private life, she pieces together a portrait of a vibrant artist buckling under the pressures of ambition, motherhood, and marriage. But Kate has secrets of her own, including a growing attraction to the enigmatic Theo, and when she stumbles across Miranda's diary, her curiosity spirals into a dangerous obsession.

A seductive, twisting tale of psychological suspense, Take Me Apart draws readers into the lives of two darkly magnetic young women pinned down by secrets and lies. Sara Sligar's electrifying debut is a chilling, thought-provoking take on art, illness, and power, from a spellbinding new voice in suspense.

 
Sligar is in conversation with Steph Cha.
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SKYLIT: Di Lebowitz, “THE MARKS LEFT ON HER”

Posted in literature, skylight books, los angeles, book stores, books, fiction, Feminism, novels, skylit by skylightbooks on May 26th, 2021

DAUGHTER is navigating her otherness as the only mixed-race child in her Hong Kongese family with a bipolar mother, absentee father and staunchly catholic grandmother. GIRL is trying to navigate a world in which she is ignored and mistreated until a sexual assault sets her on a self-destructive spiral. SURVIVOR is battling monsters both real and imagined and coming out victorious as she pieces together her history, her traumas and her strength. A remarkable story written with a courage inspired by the #MeToo movement.

The Marks Left on Her author Di Lebowitz is in conversation with Skylight's Lance Morgan.

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SKYLIT: Annie Connole, “THE SPRING” w/ Yumi Sakugawa

Posted in literature, skylight books, los angeles, book stores, books, poetry, essays, skylit by skylightbooks on May 24th, 2021

The Spring is a book-length lyric essay that examines grief and transformation through the lens of mystical animal appearances following the death of the narrator's partner.

Author Annie Connole is in conversation with Yumi Sakugawa.

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SKYLIT: Gail Newman, “BLOOD MEMORY” w/ Amy Uyematsu

Posted in skylight books, los angeles, book stores, books, poetry, skylit by skylightbooks on May 19th, 2021

Writing about the Holocaust can be difficult now, not that it was ever easy. It has become myth or something people use as a metaphor for something they object to; those who know, who went through it, are dying off. Those who deny what happened multiply. To make fresh powerful poems rooted in Shoah is amazing.--Marge Piercy

Gail Newman discusses her poetry collection Blood Memory with Amy Uyematsu.

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SKYLIT: Corey Rosen, “YOUR STORY, WELL TOLD”

Posted in skylight books, los angeles, book stores, books, self-help, skylit by skylightbooks on May 17th, 2021
Telling stories well is a skill we all need. We've all got stories to tell─but how do you make your story the best? In his book, Your Story, Well Told, Moth veteran and master teacher Corey Rosen inspires you to get on stage and tell your story. Using the best storytelling techniques from improvisational theatre, Rosen designs an accessible guide for all ages and skill levels. Crafted to help ordinary people tell extraordinary stories, this laugh out loud handbook covers everything from how to tell a good story to going off script.
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SKYLIT: Jaya Saxena, “CRYSTAL CLEAR” w/ Helena Fitzgerald

Posted in skylight books, los angeles, book stores, books, fiction, Tarot, self-help, skylit by skylightbooks on May 12th, 2021
Highly prized for their beauty, crystals can take the shape of jewelry, household objects, and an array of self-care products. But it’s the ideas they stand for that draw people to their raw forms. Like astrology, tarot, and modern witchcraft, crystals help practitioners understand themselves and the wider world around them. 
 
Crystal Clear author Jaya Saxena is in conversation with Helena Fitzgerald.
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HANDSELL: Ep. 19, Abigail Paxton, “Storyhouse Bookpub” w/ Lance Morgan

Posted in literature, skylight books, los angeles, book stores, books, Handsell by skylightbooks on May 10th, 2021

Skylight's Lance Morgan is in conversation with Abigail Paxton, owner of Storyhouse Bookpub in Des Moines, Iowa.

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