{"id":43189,"date":"2025-09-25T19:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/43189\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T19:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:14:06","slug":"leala-brings-four-days-of-authors-art-and-book-selling-to-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/43189\/","title":{"rendered":"LeaLA brings four days of authors, art and book selling to L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/people\/libby-rainey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adolfo Guzman-Lopez<\/a>\u00a0for LAist<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/news\/los-angeles-activities\/leala-spanish-book-fair-event\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Originally published<\/a>\u00a0Sept. 24, 2025<\/p>\n<p>The LeaLA Spanish language book fair kicks off Thursday morning at L.A. Plaza de Cultura y Artes next to Olvera Street in downtown L.A.<\/p>\n<p>The four-day event will feature children\u2019s performers and authors speaking about topics ranging from mental health and fanzines to teen development.<\/p>\n<p>Book distributors also will offer a wide variety of books. Panel discussions will include invited authors from Mexico, Chile and the U.S., among other countries. Presenters include participants in a bilingual anthology of poets from the U.S. and Mexico, among them hector son of hector \u2014 his writing name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe speaking Spanish here in California is me speaking as an American. If I speak Spanish, that doesn\u2019t make me a foreigner,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He grew up in Long Beach and said the book fair is an important affirmation of Spanish-speaking culture in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Other invited authors include Alicia Kozameh from Argentina, who\u2019s written about her time in jail during her country\u2019s fascist dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>L.A.-based Univision meteorologist Connie Schulte is scheduled to talk about her children\u2019s books, which focus on the world\u2019s environmental challenges.<\/p>\n<p>LeaLA, which is free, is organized by the same group that puts together the massive Guadalajara International Book Fair in November.<\/p>\n<p>A full list of presenters\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lea-la.com\/invitados\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">is here.<\/a>\u00a0The day-by-day list of events\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lea-la.com\/programa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">is here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This report is reprinted with permission from Southern California Public Radio. \u00a9 2025 Southern California Public Radio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By\u00a0Adolfo Guzman-Lopez\u00a0for LAistOriginally published\u00a0Sept. 24, 2025 The LeaLA Spanish language book fair kicks off Thursday morning at L.A.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-43189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}