EVENTS & ARCHIVE
ITS LITERALLY LA
FEATURED EVENTS IN SEPTEMBER
Charlie Sheen (THE BOOK OF SHEEN) Meet & Greet
Date: September 12, 2025 at 7:00pm
Where: Hosted by Barnes & Noble, 189 The Grove Drive Los Angeles, CA 90036 United States
EMMA HEMING WILLIS in conversation with MARIA SHRIVER (In-person & virtual)
From Emma Heming Willis, wife of Bruce Willis, a deeply personal and richly compassionate guide that helps caregivers care for themselves while they navigate a loved one’s dementia. The day the actor Bruce Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, his wife was given a pamphlet and told to check back in in a few months. With no hope or direction, Willis walked out frozen with fear. How would she care for her husband while parenting their young daughters? THE UNEXPECTED JOURNEY is the book Willis wished someone had given to her that day.
An Evening of Poetry & Prose
An Evening of Poetry and Prose (9/18) Thursday, September 18th, 2025 at 7pm PST Join us for an evening of poetry featuring local poets Katja Bartholmess, Greg Mania, Jessamyn Violet, Andra Knox, Michael Narkunski, Hugo Rooves, Sammy Ginsberg, and Charlie Stuip. This reading will also include a fundraiser with tons of prizes to benefit Heavy Manners Library!
AN EVENING WITH BILL McKIBBEN (In-person & virtual)
From the acclaimed environmentalist, HERE COMES THE SUN is a call to harness the power of the sun and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political future. Bill McKibben is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestsellers The End of Nature, Falter, and Deep Economy. He is founder of Third Act, a project organizing people over sixty for progressive change, Our climate, and our democracy, are melting down. But McKibben, one of the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, insists the moment is also full of possibility. Energy from the sun and wind is suddenly the cheapest power on the planet and growing faster than any energy source in history―if we can keep accelerating the pace, we have a chance. Here Comes the Sun tells the story of the sudden spike in power from the sun and wind―and the desperate fight of the fossil fuel industry and their politicians to hold this new power at bay. Virtual viewing begins 9/23 and remains available VOD for 5 days after.
AN EVENING WITH JASON BLUM In-person & virtual)
Jason Blum has become the driving force in horror with his film, TV and gaming company Blumhouse. His company celebrates its 15th anniversary this year and Blum's new coffee table book HORROR'S NEW WAVE, replete with film stills, on-set photos, original story boards and more, captures Blumhouse's journey to become a powerhouse in the horror and thriller film genres.This lavishly illustrated visual compendium takes the reader through the process of concept to premiere for films like Five Nights at Freddy’s, Sinister, Split, Get Out, M3GAN, now-classic franchises like The Purge, along with iconic films from cinematic visionaries including Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash and Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman and much more. Blum also delves into classic films that came before him and reshaped the horror genre, from The Exorcist to the Paranormal Activity and Halloween franchises. The book includes interviews with filmmakers and writers like M. Night Shyamalan, Leigh Whannell, James Wan, and Mike Flanagan; actors, such as Allison Williams, Ethan Hawke, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Octavia Spencer. This evening of conversation is for cinephiles, pop culture enthusiasts and lovers of horror. Virtual viewing starts 10/6 and remains available VOD for 5 days after.
Heavy Manners Comics Fair
Join us for a two day long book fair featuring cartoonists from around LA selling their comics and goods. Each day will feature a different line up of exhibitors. The event if free and open to the public.
AN EVENING WITH STEVEN PINKER (In-person & virtual)
From one of the world’s most celebrated intellectuals, WHEN EVERYONE KNOWS THAT EVERYONE KNOWS... COMMON KNOWLEDGE AND THE MYSTERIES OF MONEY, POWER, AND EVERYDAY LIFE, a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public or “out there,” is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic lives. Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He has won many prizes for his teaching, his research on language, cognition, and social relations, and his twelve books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Rationality. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.” Virtual viewing starts 10/13, 8pm and is available VOD for 5 days after.
DEBBIE GIBSON in conversation with WIL WHEATON (In-person & virtual)
Award-winning singer-songwriter and Broadway actress and bestselling international recording artist Debbie Gibson reflects on her lessons she has learned from her journey in the memoir ETERNALLY ELECTRIC: THE MESSAGE IN MY MUSIC. She celebrates the 35th anniversary of her multi-platinum "Electric Youth" album and "Lost in Your Eyes" single simultaneously reaching #1 on the Billboard charts. In her memoir, Gibson writes candidly about the high price she paid for her success, and how she had to redesign her life to overcome anxiety, depression, financial struggles and illness. She talks to Wil Wheaton, producer, narrator and actor of dozens of films and TV series. Virtual starts 9/18.
