Nobody Reads In L.A.

I am quite proud of this....when things are right.
they are RIGHT.
Oh- and for 5 minutes, I am allowed to run around
and yell about my awesomeness, then return to my regularly scheduled self-snarking .






Here's our reminder:

A quick note to remind you we are meeting weds. night at lost souls
to discuss John Fante's "Ask The Dust",

http://nobodyreadsinla.com/askthedust

I hope you can attend. We will discuss the prologue to the book,
published separately in the collection, "The Big Hunger", and also
some novels of the same era, which touch on the same milieu which
Fante evokes- Bunker Hill/Pershing Square as a vibrant and populated
neighborhood.

We also will also have a short walking tour of Pershing Square as
well at the end.

crack that spine-



Nobody Reads In L.A.: A book club for the nightclub set.
http://www.nobodyreadsinla.com

On LA.COM

http://www.la.com/blog/7872677.html

"While many people in LA are more likely to book tables in clubs than join book clubs, the city is far from being an illiterate wasteland. LA has a rich literary history, and has acted as home to authors like Raymond Chandler, John Fante, Charles Bukowski and Upton Sinclair. So we wouldn't be surprised if new book club, Nobody Reads in LA becomes harder to get into than a Hollywood Club. Championed by Kim Cooper and Richard Schave (both of whom helm quirky tour bus company Esotouric) and Nico Bella (of Fleur de Lethal Productions), Nobody Reads in LA will offer a place for book lovers to mingle and discuss books involving LA culture. The first meeting (which takes place on June 13 at 7pm at Lost Souls Cafe), will focus on John Fante's novel Ask the Dust (the talk will be followed by a John Fante walking tour of Downtown LA.) Future meetings will focus on Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister, James M. Cain's Mildred Pierce, Charles Bukowski's Post Office and Reyner Banham's The Architecture of Four Ecologies. For those who need a copy of the book, Metropolis Books is offering a 10% discount on copies of Ask the Dust for customers who say they're "a friend of Bandini's."

From The Downtown News

http://www.downtownnews.com/articles/2007/06/11/entertainment/entertainment05.txt

Eager Readers: Earlier this year, the aforementioned 1947project.com crew visited a Black Dahlia-themed art show in the Old Bank District's Regent Theater space curated by Nico Bella. As is wont to happen among local noir-ists, more events were spawned. One of them is the Nobody Reads in L.A. book club, launched by Bella and Richard Schave, Cooper's husband.

Open to anyone, the club's first meeting is June 13 at Lost Souls Cafe. The reading selection is Ask the Dust; purchase it from Main Street's Metropolis and receive a 10% discount.
Lost Souls is at 124 W. Fourth St., nobodyreadsinla.com.



From latimes.com

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2007/06/raising_las_lit.html

Raising L.A.'s literary profile

The Esotouric bus tours of literary L.A. have received an item in this column before, and now there’s another effort to build and maintain the visibility of L.A.’s literary heritage by an organization calling itself Nobody Reads in LA.

Construction continues to change downtown Los Angeles--old buildings are turning into swanky lofts that are intended to attract fresh professionals to live in the area. But what about perceptions of the city’s cultural life? Who is taking care of that? According to the website, Nobody Reads in LA is a "loose-knit group of individuals striving to create a stronger cultural, literary and historical sense of downtown Los Angeles. . . . Behind our efforts--which extend far beyond that of a traditional book club--is the desire to examine downtown as one of the two poles, along with Hollywood, whose gravitational pull traces L.A.’s eccentric orbit."

In the book industry, Los Angeles has long been criticized as lacking a center: Publishers frequently complain that it’s more difficult plotting effective author tours here than, say, in San Francisco or Manhattan--nothing in this city, they say, presents itself as an obvious literary hub. If Nobody Reads in LA succeeds, perhaps such a hub will be found at Lost Souls Café in downtown L.A., where the group will meet. Discussions are being planned on books that have contributed to the various images--noir capital, land of lost souls and desperate people--hanging over the city: Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, Charles Bukowski and Reyner Banham. Directions, times and specifics can all be found at its website.

The club’s first meeting will take place June 13 at the café and center on John Fante’s "Ask the Dust." Afterward, there will be a brief walking tour of places associated with the author. Who said that books and exercise don’t mix?

Nick Owchar