River of Angels, City of Words: Stephen Cooper on John Fante & Writing LA
Fri 23 Oct, 13:00 · Central Library, Meeting Room B, 630 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071 (Downtown) · Los Angeles
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Fante biographer Stephen Cooper comes to the Central Library to discuss his short story collection River of Angels and the enduring pull of John Fante, whose Bunker Hill novels helped define Los Angeles literature. Expect a conversation on why decades-old LA writing still resonates, held a few blocks from the streets Fante wrote about, in one of the city's most beautiful public buildings.
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A literary afternoon on LA's own canon, held in the heart of the city it describes.
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