Posts Tagged ‘Track 16’
Penn Jillette’s Atheist Guide to the 2012 Election. Jillette at Live Talks 11/15
We look forward to hosting Penn Jillette — the taller and louder of the comedy/magic dou, Penn & Teller — on November 15 at Live Talks Los Angeles at Track 16 at Bergamot Station. He’ll be discussing his new book, Every Day is an Atheist Holiday. Here’s a video on Jillette’s guide to the 2012 elections. Ticket info, here.
Q&A with Penn Jillette in Los Angeles Magazine. Jillette is at Live Talks LA on Nov 15 Track 16 @bergamotstation
We’re looking forward to our Live Talks Los Angeles event with Penn Jillette — the taller and louder of the magic and comedy duo, Penn & Teller. He’ll be discussing his new book, Everyday is an Atheist Holiday, November 15th at Track 16 at Bergamot Station. Purchase tickets here. Here’s a Q&A Jillette did with Los Angeles Magazine.
T.C. Boyle in the news…at Live Talks LA on Sept 27…
We’re excited to have T.C. Boyle back at Live Talks Los Angeles. We host Boyle at Track 16 at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica on Thursday, September 27th. We last hosted him in 2011, and here’s the video. Hector Tobar reviews Boyle’s latest — his 14th novel — in the Los Angeles Times (September 16). Here are come excerpts…
San Miguel Island is a real place, the westernmost of the Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California. In Boyle’s book, it’s a patch of earth beyond the end of the western frontier, a place where the mythical western ethos makes its last stand.
“Terra incognita,” one of his characters calls it. “Terra insolita … the last scrap of land the continent had to offer, an island tossed out in the ocean like an afterthought.”
“San Miguel” tells the story of the people who lived there in the final decade of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th. They raise sheep, living an often-harsh existence amid seals, eagles and storms that sweep in from the Pacific.
…”San Miguel” is the prolific Boyle’s 14th novel. As always, he fills his pages with wonderfully precise character studies and lush descriptions of the physical landscape.
…For lovers of California literature especially, “San Miguel” will be a welcome addition to their reading lists
September 27 — An Evening with T.C. Boyle
Thursday, September 27, 2012
8:00pm (Reception 6:30-7:30pm)
An Evening with T.C. Boyle
discussing his new novel, San Miguel
Track 16 at Bergamot Station
2525 Michican Avenue, Bldg. C-1
Santa Monica, CA
$20, $40 includes Boyle’s book,
$34 signed book purchase only (shipping included to US destinations)
$95 includes the book + pre-event reception
The inimitable and acclaimed writer returns to Live Talks LA with his newest and fourteenth novel, San Miguel
See a book trailer for T.C. Boyle’s San Miguel.
Boyle’s latest, San Miguel is a soaring historical narrative about two families trying to start new lives on a windswept, near-desolate island just off the coast of southern California. Publishers Weekly says, “Boyle’s epic saga of struggle, loss, and resilience tackles Pacific pioneer history with literary verve….”
Hear the prolific Boyle read from and discuss this latest book, along with his writing process, and his thoughts on living the literary life.
“Each day,” he says, “I try to enter another world and stay there until my mind gets fuzzy and I have to quit work till the next day. In the interim, whether I’m sitting miles out in the Sierras with a book , doing yard work, cooking dinner or pouring a glass of wine, the artistic questions and choices of the story or novel stay with me until I can sit down again at the computer the following morning and move forward.”
* Proceeds from tickets to the reception support the upcoming Live Talks Los Angeles emerging voices/authors series of events that commence in 2013.
$20, $40 includes Boyle’s book,
$95 includes pre-event reception (6:00-7:00pm) plus book
September 18 — An Evening with Naomi Wolf
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
8pm (Reception 6:30-7:30pm)
An Evening with Naomi Wolf
in conversation with Terrence McNally
discussing her book, Vagina: A New Biography
Track 16 at Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue, Bldg C-1
Santa Monica, CA
PURCHASE TICKETS
$20, $40 includes Wolf’s book,
$34 signed book purchase only (shipping included to US destinations)
$95 includes the book + pre-event reception*
Naomi Wolf in the news…
— Review in The New Yorker
A provocative new book from the bestselling author of The Beaty Myth tackles female sexuality.
In her landmark bestsellers, Naomi Wolf has explored important subjects from the commercialization of childbirth and motherhood, to how media images of beauty are used against women.
Now, in Vagina: A New Biography, Wolf reveals scientific evidence of the direct link between a woman’s experience of her vagina, and her very sense of self.
Wolf asks: If the vagina and the brain are essentially parts of one network, then what do women really need – not only for sexual fulfillment, but for overall confidence, self-realization and well-being?
Join us at Live Talks Los Angeles as she discusses how science and history, religion and literature, have helped her to answer this question.
For more on Namoi Wolf, visit her website.
Terrence NcNally is host of Free Forum on KPFK which is heard in Los Angeles and New York. On his weekly radio show, McNally engages the most visionary thinkers, writers, and doers he can find to make sense of the current moment and shed light on the path ahead.
PURCHASE TICKETS
* Proceeds from tickets to the reception support the upcoming Live Talks Los Angeles emerging voices/authors series of events that commence in 2013
$20, $40 includes Wolf’s book,
$95 includes pre-event reception (6:30-7:30pm) plus book
Track 16 at Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue, Bldg C-1
Santa Monica, CA
Carl Hiaasen event write up in LAT…
Track 16 Gallery
Carolyn Kellogg has a nice write up of the Carl Hiaasen event this week. Nice that Carolyn also included some pics of Track 16, and the history of the Brown Derby sign. Proceeds from the event supported the wonderful work of Reading to Kids. Check them out. And video from the event coming soon…