Literature in the Inland Empire & Southern California!

This Father's Day weekend, come relive the life and times of Tom and Huck at the 36th Annual Huck Finn Jubilee in Victorville, CA. Camping, catfishing and Bluegrass music help create an environment to take you back to the 1880's. [...]

Just one year after the anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, activist Wael Ghonim travels to Los Angeles from Cairo to speak at the ALOUD series to share his experience from the front line of revolution with renowned scholar and writer Reza Aslan. [...]

The annual Riverside Dickens Festival, like a time machine, will deliver spectators to Victorian England for the era's equivalent of a dinner and a show -- a classic outing in any historic era. The festival runs from Saturday, January 7 to Sunday, January 8, 2012. [...]

TEDxUCR, “The Everyday Extraordinary,” comes to UC Riverside on December 3, 2011, from 9am-1pm. The independently organized event, licensed by TED, is open to the public. [...]

A literary icon for Los Angeles and a cultural visionary for the rest of America, the acclaimed author of The White Album, The Year of Magical Thinking, and most recently, Blue Nights, discusses her current work and life in Los Angeles in the 60s. [...]

On Wednesday, November 2, 2011, a panel of five award winning authors will discuss the hallmarks of Jewish identity in their writing, as well as the historical and contemporary role of the writer in Jewish literature. This special evening will begin with a reception at 5:30 p.m. followed by brief readings from each author and [...]

Ozzy Osbourne's national book tour, "Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy: Advice From Rock's Ultimate Survivor," will stop at Barnes & Noble in Riverside on Friday, October 14, 2011. [...]