Each year, as Passover rolls around, many of us turn to our bookshelves and wonder if something better has turned up in the world of haggadas. Something interesting. Perhaps something meaningful. Perhaps something that resonates more than the worn out haggadas that we’ve used for the past 10, 15, even 50 years. When a new haggadah hits the stands, it’s reason to take notice.
Writers Bloc, with thanks to the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, invites you to a special, exclusive evening with Elmore Leonard.
Elizabeth Taylor was gorgeous, sexy and magnificent. And on screen she clearly helped to create a fundamental discussion about women’s roles– in terms of sex, marriage, and personal identity.
As curator of Writers Bloc Presents, I am so proud to bring you great novelists, journalists, and comedians—some of the best artists and thinkers in the world, without question. Whether you’re a longtime audience member or new to our programs, by participating in Writers Bloc, you have helped to make Los Angeles an important literary destination. We thank you for your support.
Just in time for the presidential campaign, Tom Brokaw gives us more to think about. One of our most trusted and admired broadcast journalists, Brokaw insists that we as a country reignite our national dialog in order to really recapture our ideals. Tom Brokaw’s new book is The Time of Our Lives, A Conversation About America.
SOLD OUT. Writers Bloc invites you and a guest to a free screening of The Ides of March, a political thriller based on the play, Farragut North by Beau Willimon. During the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, an up-and-coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate’s shot at the presidency. With an all-star cast featuring Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood and Paul Giamatti, The…