Notable Los Angeles: 9/23–9/29
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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...moreIn June of 1967, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band came out. Brian Wilson is said to have heard it and wept. Wilson, the Beach Boys’ main songwriter, producer, erstwhile bass player, and singer-of-high-harmonies, knew he’d lost the race with the Beatles.
...moreReese’s poems…often bless the patience and attention of the reader by not demanding it.
...moreKeith Douglas has largely ceased to exist to most readers beyond those attracted to war as a subject. The reissue of Simplify Me When I’m Dead, containing forty-one poems, aims to correct that.
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