Where Literature Coincides with Art
The Hammer Museum – Santa Monica, CA
3/4 thru 3/6/12

East L.A.’s favorite bookstore/lending library, Libros Schmibros, is back at the Hammer Museum with a free monthly book club led by co-directors David Kipen and Colleen Jaurretche. Convenings will focus on books related to the museum’s exhibitions and programs. →

BONNAROO:  WHAT, WHICH, THIS, THAT, THE OTHER
The first official book about the country’s premier summer music and arts festival contains over 400 photos covering all 10 years of Bonnaroo, featuring shots taken by some of the best shooters working in music today, including Danny Clinch, C. Taylor Crothers, Jeff Kravitz, and Ryan Mastro, among others. It also highlights numerous personal anecdotes from fans, the festival producers, various staff, and some of the top musicians and comedians who have performed there.  →

L.A. Record proudly hosts the L.A. Zine Fest
The Last Book Store – Downtown LA, CA
2/19/12

This year, the L.A. Zine Fest has an exciting lineup for the literary minded. KXLU DJs will provide the apt soundscapes and L.A. Record will be hosting a lively afterparty featuring a live silkscreening by Hit + Run! All workshops and discussion panels will take place at The Last Bookstore this Sunday followed by  a free afterparty with the Allah Las, Cold Showers and Neverever! →

A Passionate Recitation of Meister and Aygi
Machine Project – Echo Park, CA
2/3 & 2/4/12

Graham Foust and Sarah Valentine will read from their translations of Ernst Meister and Gennady Aygi, respectively. Graham Foust is the author of a number of books including A Mouth in California, Neccessary Stanger and the forthcoming To Anacreon in Heaven (all from Flood Editions). He is also the translator, from the German, of Ernst Meister’s In Time’s Rift, forthcoming next year from Wave Books. →

For the Friends, Book Lovers & Music Fans…
The Echo – Echo Park, CA
11/13/11

Dear Friends, Book Lovers, Music Fans:

A Machine Project Benefit: DMV Party / Desert Reading
Elysian – Atwater Village / Joshua Tree, CA
11/5/11 & 11/6/11

We’d like to invite you to one of our most exciting and potentially disasterous events of the year. On Saturday, November 5th from 8 – 11pm we’ll be holding our Machine Project Benefit, which will be based around that unbeloved place known as the Department of Motor Vehicles. Please join us for an evening of unbridled confusion as we transform an event space in Atwater Village into the DMV of Machine Project’s imagination. →

A Ghost Story by Acclaimed Author, Mark Z. Danielewski
REDCAT – Downtown LA, CA
10/31/11

This Halloween, for one night only, critically acclaimed author Mark Z. Danielewski returns to REDCAT with a theatrical presentation of his limited edition, illustrated ghost story The Fifty Year Sword. Building upon the momentum of last year’s sold-out shows, this year’s performance will include 40-foot shadows by shadowcaster Christine Marie, sound design by John Zalewski, live music, and more—all conducted by the author himself. →

Libros Schmibros Teams up with the Hammer
The Hammer Museum – Santa Monica, CA
Ongoing – 10/9/11

The Hammer Museum’s Public Engagement program will bring an artist project by David Kipen—an interpretation of Libros Schmibros, his hybrid lending library and used bookshop in Boyle Heights—to Westwood from August 27 to October 9, 2011. Libros Schmibros will be set up in the Hammer Museum’s lobby gallery. Kipen, former Director of Literature for the National Endowment of the Arts and a past book critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, established Libros Schmibros in July 2010 with his collection of roughly seven thousand books, in response to the lack of accessibility to books in his Boyle Heights community. →

Big City Forum Has Writerly Aspirations
Gallery 825 – LA, CA
5/18/11

Our good friends at Big City Forum along with LAAA/Gallery 825 presents an evening about the written word. Join a group of LA’s most talented up and coming authors for a lively conversation as they explore ways in which fiction shapes our thinking about personal and collective narratives.  This event is free and open to the public! →

Arkitip is very pleased to announce the reopening of Project Space.  Stop by Saturday between 11:00 – 19:00 we will be serving complimentary wine and small bites during the afternoon. All online inventory as well as some surprise items will be available with a special 50% discount on ALL issue editions. →