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Featured: Black Interest

You Can Keep That to Yourself: A Comprehensive List of What Not to Say to Black People, for Well-Intentioned People of Pallor

At long last, a much-needed guidebook for well-intentioned people of pallor on what not to say to their African American “friends.”

Song for Night

Chris Abani’s new novella furthers his reputation as the most acclaimed young African writer today.

The Freedom Artist

An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own, by the Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri.

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John Densmore — Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (Los Angeles, CA)

4/21/24, 3:00pm

John Densmore presents The Doors Unhinged, in conversation with Stephen Perkins

Ron Kovic — Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (Los Angeles, CA)

4/21/24, 12:00pm

Memoir on Vietnam: Make Art, Not War, featuring Ron Kovic, author of A Dangerous Country: An American Elegy and Ben Caldwell, moderated by Robeson Taj Frazier

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