Events
Up-coming GAL Gatherings
Los Angeles
GAL BOOK CLUB
Deep End Club
1546 Echo Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Thursday, August 23rd
7-9pm
Join GAL for our monthly book club meet-up! This month we will be discussing the dynamics within friendship and music in The Ensemble by Aja Gabel. GAL is thrilled to host author Aja as our guest speaker.
GAL CD Eliza Wexelman will be in conversation with Aja at Deep End Club. Before the conversation we will have a 30 minute live performance by Jonathan Tang, a local violinist and group. Bring your thoughts, questions, and conversation! We suggest reading the book, but even if you haven't, please join us and feel free to add to the conversation.
Los Angeles
GAL X MANDY KAHN X THE DEEP END CLUB
Deep End Club
1546 Echo Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Wednesday, September 12th
7-9pm
Los Angeles
Book Launch with Leah Dieterich
In Conversation with Ann Friedman
Ace Hotel DTLA
1546 Echo Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Wednesday, October 10th
7-9pm
“I'm captivated by Dieterich's naive but searching and intelligent narrator; the connections she ties between typography and twinning and ballet and sex are unexpected and frequently magical.
I love this book.”
– SARAH MANGUSO, AUTHOR OF 300 ARGUMENTS AND THE TWO KINDS OF DECAY
GAL presents and evening with Leah Dieterich in conversation with Ann Friedman at the Ace Hotel DTLA.
Join us for a discussion centered around the female experience, sexuality, gender, identity, and marriage to celebrate the launch of Leah's memoir, Vanishing Twins: A Marriage.
Books will be for sale at the event from The Lev or for purchase with ticket to guarantee a copy for pick up at the event.
About Leah Dieterich
Leah’s essay, What Does Being A Couple Mean When You’re In An Open Marriage? was featured on Buzzfeed, and her fiction can be seen on Bomb Magazine’s Word Choice, as well as The Nervous Breakdown, and the Los Angeles Review of Books’ site, The Offing. She is also the author of a book of thank-you notes, entitled thxthxthx: thank goodness for everything. She lives in Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. Her book Vanishing Twins: A Marriage is forthcoming from Soft Skull in September 2018.
About Ann Friedman
Ann Friedman is a journalist who writes about gender, media, politics, and culture. She co-host the podcast Call Your Girlfriend. She is a regular contributor at The Los Angeles Times and a contributing editor to The Gentlewoman and written for California Sunday, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, ELLE, and The Guardian.
PAST EVENTS
Los Angeles
Book Swap with Days LA
Days
1709 N. Kenmore Ave.
Los Angeles, CA. 90027
Saturday, August 4th
3-6pm
GAL will be partnering with Days for a Celebration of Women and Literature with Feminist Library on Wheels (F.L.O.W.), and The Lev.
Join us on August 4th to exchange books that are written by women or feature female protagonists.
Come for the books but stay for the interesting people and open dialogue. All are welcome! Your recommendations may be featured on GAL!
We are also accepting overflow book donations for F.L.O.W., and The Lev founder Miram Chan will be present with a selection of favorite books for sale!
New York
GAL BOOK CLUB
Haven's Kitchen
109 West 17th Street
THIRD FLOOR
New York, NY 10011
Thursday, June 21
7-9pm
Join GAL for our monthly book club meet-up! This time, we'll be in NYC discussing July's book- Back Talk by Danielle Lazarin. GAL is thrilled to host author Danielle as our guest speaker.
GAL EIC Payton Turner will be hosting the discussion and Q&A with Danielle at Haven's Kitchen. Bring your thoughts, questions, and conversation! We suggest reading the book, but even if you haven't, please join us and feel free to add to the conversation.
New York
Book Swap with Catbird NYC
Catbird NYC
Tuesday, June 26th
6-9pm
GAL will be partnering with Catbird to bring you the NYC edition of our Book Swap!
There will be Gift Bags, librations, and more!
So come with a book, leave with a book and some.
Los Angeles
GAL hosts Zinzi Clemmons with The Lev
The Lev
Monday, June 25th
7pm
GAL & The Lev bring together authors Zinzi Clemmons & Shauna Barbosa for a conversation to celebrate the release of Zinzi's novel What We Lose in paperback.
Los Angeles
GAL BOOK CLUB
Deep End Club
Thursday, June 21
7-9pm
Please join GAL in conversation with poet and memoirist Yrsa Daley-Ward about her powerful new memoir THE TERRIBLE.
Yrsa’s book will be available for purchase by The Lev at the event, but we suggest you read it beforehand to join the conversation.
The talk begins promptly at 7:15pm with an audience Q&A at the very end, followed by a book signing.
Copies of THE TERRIBLE and bone will be for sale at the event but to guarantee a copy, pre-order here through The Lev.
(*click "pick up in-store" and add a note if you will be attending the event)
This is the first of GAL’s monthly book club series. Join us next month in New York, or (always) via our Facebook group and Instagram stream.
Los Angeles
FOOD TO FICTION
Days / Lisa Cole
Wednesday, June 20
7-10pm
Partnering with Days and Lisa Cole, we are back with the next installment of the popular Food to Fiction dinner!
This version is based around the question—What is the LA story? We explore this through an evening of vegan food woven around the women whose stories shaped Los Angeles. From Helen Hunt Jackson to Charlotta Bass, Joan Didion to Janet Finch, Lisa See to Vanessa Place, we wander though the fictions of this place.
One ticket includes a 3 course meal, cocktail by @folosophy, wine, and an interactive evening of fun!
FOOD TO FICTION
Past GAL Gatherings
