November 2, 11:30 a.m.

Presented by UCLA Humanities

A conversation highlighting publications that are produced in response and proximity to the communities they serve. The panel will dive into how people produce, envision, and execute publications that serve their community.

Moderated by writer and professor Summer Kim Lee. Featuring representatives from campus publications Westwind (UCLA) and Word Magazine (UCSB) in conversation with Ren Heintz, instructor at Transchool and assistant professor of English and director of the Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities at Cal State Los Angeles, and Bidhran Chandra Roy, the director of Cal State of L.A.’s Prison Graduation Initiative and founder of WordsUncaged.

November 2, 1:00 p.m.

Presented with the Department of Cultural Affairs.

Join Los Angeles Review of Books at LITLIT for “Bodies and the Literary Landscape,” a panel conversation on how the publishing industry’s attitude towards bodies has shifted in a myriad of ways in the past decade. From feminist body horror to fat representation to stories of chronic illness and mental health, form and genre play a key role in how writers explore self and subject.

Join writers Sarah Rose Etter, Sarah LaBrie, and Emma Specter, in addition to editor Allison Miriam Woodnutt, as they discuss with LARB Editor-in-Chief Medaya Ocher the interplay between the body as metaphor and as storytelling mode.

November 2, 2:30 p.m.

Presented with the Department of Cultural Affairs.

Los Angeles Review of Books presents Poetry Hour. We’ll be featuring a series of readings, curated by LARB Poetry Editors Elizabeth Metzger and Callie Siskel, from SoCal poets including Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Katie Ford, Douglas Manuel, Natalie Shapero, and Sarah Yanni.

This program is made possible by the Department of Cultural Affairs.

November 2, 4:30 p.m.

Presented with the Department of Cultural Affairs.

“On Adaptation” is a conversation on the experience of taking a book to the screen. Authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Anna Dorn, author and TV writer Jonathan Ames, and cultural critic Jane Hu will discuss what it’s like to see their work, and others, be adapted for Hollywood. The conversation will be led by Paul Thompson, an editor and critic. Join us as we discuss how Hollywood’s interests have influenced the literary landscape, from what gets published to what gets written, and why we’ve seen such a rise in adaptation in recent years.