By Daily Press staff
Local authors will serve up free love and sex at the Midnight Special Bookstore. The bookstore at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 25, will host a literary reading entitled “All About Love.” The bookstore has a new location at 1450 2nd St. in Santa Monica. The free reading will explore aspects of love and sex, and the readers — all local, published authors — include Cecilia Brainard, Eve LaSalle Caram, Aimee Liu, Kambon Obayani and Greg Sarris.
Brainard is the author and editor of “When the Rainbow Goddess Wept,” “Magdalena,” “Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults” and other books. She teaches at a UCLA writers program and has lectured and performed in universities and literary arts organizations, such as the University of Southern California, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, Shakespeare and Company, Paris and others.
Caram has published a set of “Corpus Christi” novels, authored the short novel “Wintershine,” and is the editor of “Palm Readings, Stories from Southern California.” She teaches fiction writing at the Writers’ Program, UCLA-Extension and has taught writing at a number of colleges and universities, including California State University at Northridge, Los Angeles City College, Stephen’s College, the University of Missouri and USC.
Liu authored “Flash House,” “Cloud Mountain,” “Face” and the acclaimed memoir of anorexia nervosa, “Solitaire.” She teaches creative writing at the UCLA-Extension school in Los Angeles.
Obayani authored “The Colours Quartet,” and “Bird Island.” Obayani also is a playwright with 15 produced plays and co-edits literary magazine “FlashBopp,” and directs the Rebuild Crenshaw Arts Committee, a music-radio show. He teaches English, creative writing and literature and music at both California State University at Northridge and Pierce College.
Sarris authored “Watermelon Nights” and “Grand Avenue” and is a professor at Loyola Marymount University. He is also the chairman of the Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria — formerly known as the Federated Coast Miwok — which explores American-Indian life.
For more information, contact Midnight Special at (310) 393-2923.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 16, 2004. Read the original PDF.