A Glendale College Foundation grant is supporting the Los Angeles Writers Reading Series, giving students and community members a chance to participate in world-class literary events and to meet and talk to authors whose works they’ve studied. The second event of the series this year will feature memoirist, essayist and fiction writer Bernard Cooper and Los Angeles Times Book Critic, award-winning journalist and editor David L. Ulin on October 6, 2010, 12:20 to 1:30 p.m. in Kreider Hall at GCC.
From the GCC Public Information Office:
Cooper (“The Bill from My Father” and “Guess Again”) will be reading with Ulin (“The Myth of Solid Ground” and the forthcoming book “The Lost Art of Reading”) followed by a question and answer session.
A native of Hollywood, Bernard Cooper has won the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently teaches at Bennington College in Vermont. Publisher’s Weekly calls Bernard Cooper’s fifth book, the critically acclaimed memoir “The Bill From My Father,” “A tender elegy to his baffling father, Edward Cooper, a blustery L.A. divorce attorney with a flair for drama.” Excerpts from Bernard Cooper’s current book appeared in The Best American Essays of 2009 edited by Adam Gopnik.
Born and raised in Manhattan, David L. Ulin has lived in Los Angeles since 1991. Former Editor of the LA Times Book Review and current book critic of the Los Angeles Times, he has also written for The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation and the New York Times Book Review. Ulin edited the acclaimed anthology “Writing Los Angeles” an eclectic mixture of fiction, journalism, and essays featuring writers from Raymond Chandler to Ruben Martinez. Ulin’s 2004 book “The Myth Of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction and the Fault Line between Reason and Faith” is a compelling study of the emotional and psychic effects of living on California’s fault lines, an investigation into the field of seismology, and a fascinating look at the science and pseudoscience of earthquake prediction. Ulin’s next book, “The Lost Art of Reading,” due out in November, investigates the challenges and rewards of reading in the age of technological distraction.
Literature lovers take note. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the GCC English Department, (818) 240-1000, ext. 5606.