This event is now full. At the Goethe Institute Auditorium, 5750 Wilshire Blvd. Every so often an author comes around who rattles our imagination.  Stieg Larsson, author of the “Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” trilogy, was one such novelist.  Writers Bloc invites you to come to a special event, an opportunity to meet and listen to Jo Nesbo, a Scandinavian crime novelist from Oslo who draws comparisons to Stieg Larsson everywhere he goes.  His books have sold millions in Europe, and in the UK they…

Peggy Orenstein writes about what women and girls, and mothers and daughters, should think about.  Her beat includes really anything that matters to women: issues of weight, sex, career, motherhood, investments, relationships, social networks and more—and not in that order.  You’ve read her pieces in The New York Times Magazine, and if you haven’t, start reading.  Her new book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Girlie-Girl Culture,  examines the alarming new “princessmania” of our culture that drives little girls, young girls…

This is a special, almost defining program for Writers Bloc, a program that explores the purpose of reading literature.  David Ulin’s book, The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time, is an intimate and personal exploration of reading novels (and for discussion’s sake, we’ll include the occasional nonfiction work) for the sake of enjoyment, enrichment, stimulation and intellectual engagement.  David examines why reading matters, how thinking about ideas presented in literature can actually help us move forward as a civilization.  At…