What a great weekend for literary LA!
Saturday, May 12th, from 9:30 - 5PM, Libros Schmibros co-Directors Colleen Jaurretche and David Kipen will be serving as panelists at Pasadena LitFest.
Come by our booth in Pasadena’s Central Park or see our talks!
PLEASE NOTE: Libros Schmibros in Boyle Heights will be CLOSED Saturday in order to be at Pasadena LitFest!
We’re still settling into our new digs — have you seen our new Mariachi Plaza location? Because it is beautiful — but we can’t stop, won’t stop having events. We’d love to see you at some of the following — or all, if you’re feeling ambitious!
Tuesday, April 17th — 12 noon
East Los Angeles Rotary Club — lunch with David Kipen, founder of Libros Schmibros
Tamayo Restaurant, East Los Angeles
RSVP required! Tickets $15
Thursday, April 19th — 7PM
New California Writing 2012: Launch Party
Libros Schmibros
RSVP required!
PLEASE NOTE: Libros Schmibros will be CLOSED Thursday to prepare for the HeyDay launch party!
Libros Schmibros will also be CLOSED Saturday, 4/21 to cavort at the LA Times Festival of Books!
Sunday, May 6th — 1PM
Libros Schmibros Book Club — The Pat Hobby Stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hammer Museum
Saturday, May 12th — 9AM
Pasadena LitFest — Libros Schmibros co-Directors Colleen Jaurretche and David Kipen serving as panelists
Central Park, Pasadena
Got a burning question? Shoot us an email at librosschmibros@gmail.com . Or, hit us up on on Facebook or Twitter.
Libros Schmibros is now open at its new location. We’re still settling in, so pardon our dust while you browse our gorgeous new shelves.
We’d love to see you! Come by Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 6PM, to say hello to Colleen, David, and the rest of the crew. We’re now at:
1711 East 1st St.
Los Angeles, CA 90033
We’re right off the Gold Line at Mariachi Plaza. As a housewarming present, we got a nice write-up on the LA Streets Blog.
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See you at Mariachi Plaza soon, friends!
Libros Schmibros is moving!
Don’t worry, we’re still remaining in Boyle Heights. We’ll be closed this week, and will reopen soon at our new location at Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights. Watch this blog for more details on our re-opening date!
Swing by and welcome us to our new digs next week!
LA Zine Fest is coming up fast! Co-organized by stellar Libros Schmibros volunteer Bianca, this event is FREE and will feature workshops and a great community of artists and zinesters. Check it out!
Sunday, 2/19
11AM – 5PM
The Last Bookstore
Full event listing
Be sure to check out the table of friends of the shop Seite Books, who’ll be selling some really great work!
Libros Schmibros will be closed tomorrow – Saturday, 1/14 – for a board meeting. But we’ll be back on Wednesday, 1/18, at noon!
Happy Hanukkah!
This week, Libros is open Wednesday – Friday, 12 -6, and Saturday, 12 – 3.
After Christmas Eve, we’re closed until the new year, when we reopen Wednesday, 1/4.
Come by and say hello!
Libros Schmibros will be closed for Thanksgiving week, and will reopen Wednesday, 11/30.
Enjoy the holiday, everyone!
Libros Schmibros is closed this week and will reopen in Boyle Heights Wednesday 11/16, but we and our partners are staying busy with events this week!
THURSDAY, 11/10
Our partner organization, the East West Players in Little Tokyo, begins performing the play The Language Archive. 11/10 – 12/4, come catch this wonderful play about language, life, and love!
From the press release:
“Meet George, a linguist, a master of languages, who cannot express his love for his wife–and ends up losing her. Follow this whimsical and heartbreaking look at love and language that asks, “How do we save what is dying?” “
FRIDAY, 11/11
At 7PM in Mariachi Plaza, come catch a free screening of Aventurera – a Cine Negra classic about good women, bad women, and the men who love them.
Libros Schmibros is organizing this screening as part of Night and the City: LA Noir in Poetry, Fiction, and Film.
SATURDAY, 11/12
At noon in East LA, friends of Libros Schmibros Seite Books are organizing a free zinemaking workshop. Check them out!
WEDNESDAY, 11/2
A day of readings and celebrations!
From 11 – 4:30PM, visit Libros Schmibros – Westwood for readings of James Joyce, Hemingway, and children’s books.
At 4:30PM, we close at Westwood to caravan over for an evening of events in Boyle Heights.
Libros Schmibros – Boyle Heights will be open from 4 – 7PM. Near 7PM, staff will caravan over to the Breed Street Shul for Orale!: An Evening of Boyle Heights Stories. Valet parking is $15, or walk over from Soto Station on the Gold Line. We can’t wait to see you there!
FRIDAY, 11/4
From 11 – 1PM, writer Michael Jayme-Becerra pulls a guest worker shift at Libros – Westwood.
From 12 – 1PM, Libros Schmibros – Westwood will host a book group discussion of Reyner Banham’s LA: The Architecure of Four Ecologies.
SATURDAY, 11/5
Last chance to see Libros Schmibros at the Hammer! We’ll celebrate Guy Fawkes Day by collecting returned books and taking our leave of Westwood.
