Book Soup

Phone:

(310) 659-3110

Type: Indie Bookstore

Website:

http://www.booksoup.com

E-mail:

info@booksoup.com

Located on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, Book Soup is an independently-owned bookstore that carries 60,000 titles. The store specializes in art, film, photography, music, controversial nonfiction, and literary fiction and hosts regular author events.

Address: 8818 Sunset Boulevard

West Hollywood, CA 90069

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City Guide

Los Angeles

by Carolyn Kellogg

City Guides

From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Nathanael West, Joan Didion to Raymond Chandler, many writers have been inspired by Los Angeles. In this installment of City Guides, Carolyn Kellogg, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times and Jacket Copy blogger, visits her favorite haunts made famous by writers of both past and present.

Upcoming Events

Hannah R. Menkin

Workshop

Burbank Senior Artists Colony

June 19, 2013 (All day)

L.A. Story at Hollywood Forever

Reading

Hollywood Forever

June 21, 2013 - 8:00pm

Hélène Cardona, John FitzGerald and Mariano Zaro at Third Friday Salon

Reading

The Rapp Saloon

June 21, 2013 - 8:30pm

Hélène Cardona, John FitzGerald & Mariano Zaro at Third Friday Salon

Reading

The Rapp Saloon

June 21, 2013 - 8:30pm

Connecting Cultures

Reading

Beyond Baroque

June 27, 2013 - 7:30pm

Conferences & Residencies

Writers Studio

Conference

Los Angeles, California

MFA Programs

Antioch University

MFA

University of Southern California

PhD

University of California, Davis

Writing Contests

Commonwealth Club of California

California Book Awards

Magazine Articles

Literary MagNet

by Travis Kurowski

News and Trends

May/June 2012

Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines in America. This issue's MagNet features Southwest Review, Oxford American, Midwestern Gothic, the Los Angeles Review, ZYZZYVA, Hawk & Handsaw, and Common.

The Written Image: Poet on the Edge

by Staff

News and Trends

January/February 2011

A pen-and-ink drawing and a typewritten letter by Charles Bukowski are two pieces among the documents and ephemera currently on view in Charles Bukowski: Poet on the Edge at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

Poets Act on Oil Spill

by Shell Fischer

News and Trends

September/October 2010

In response to the Deep-water Horizon oil spill, writers Heidi Lynn Staples and Amy King created Poets for Living Waters, an online poetry forum featuring works written in response to the disaster, spurring a host of nationwide events that give poets not only an opportunity to take action against the catastrophe but also to speak out in support of our natural environment.

Directory of Writers

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Creative Nonfiction Writer

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Scott Sanders

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Arthur Vogelsang

Poet

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