This week in the literary world revolves around the desire to break from convention, and gathering together for discussions and potential enlightenment in one’s personal work: a fetish book club, a in-depth instruction on freelance magazine writing, a reading of works, and a workshop for poetry writers.

• Fetish Book Club | Thursday, June 26, 2008 | 7:00 pm | $10.00 | Antebellum Gallery - Map | “fet·ish [fettish]: something that arouses sexual excitement in somebody, e.g. an inanimate object or nonsexual part of the body” (Encarta Dictionary). Be it shoes, feathers, hands, feet, flowers, labels, elements, anything you’d ever care for - have fun with it. Don’t be so serious! For more info, call (323) 856-0667.
• Mission Possible: Breaking into Magazine Writing | Thursday, June 26, 2008 | 7:30 pm |$50.00 - $60.00 | Playhouse Pilates - Map | How to be, or how to be better? Those are the questions freelance writer Jen Jones attempts to answer for aspiring magazine writers. Learn how to break from one particular anchor subject and become more versatile, or perhaps learn to center on the one thing that you excel at a bit easier than others. For more info, call (626) 371-0000.

• David Sedaris: Reading and Discussion | Saturday June 28, 2008 | 8:00 pm | $28.00 - $50.00 | Royce Hall UCLA - Map | A veritable Renaissance man in the world of print, radio, recordings, and collaborations, David Sedaris reads from his new featured work. I swear that is all that I know. Mr. Sedaris is of great humor, but this whole things sounds super secret to me - and super secret makes everything more exciting, quite like maraschino cherries on a white chocolate sundae. Mmm. Go. For more info and tickets, call (310) 825-2101.
• Writing Group: Poetry and Verse | Tuesday July 1, 2008 | 10:30 am | Barnes & Noble, Third St. Promenade - Map | So here we’ve small group of poets / Whose writing is ace; how they show it / But the bar they have set / Has since only been met / And their goal’s to exceed it, and know it. For more info, call (310) 260-9110.

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