Events

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EVENTS

Ongoing: Kim co-hosts Esotouric's weekly crime bus and literary Los Angeles tours and will sign copies of The Kept Girl for attendees before and after tours.

March 29, 2017 7:00am-9:00am - Talking and signing books at The Los Angeles Breakfast Club, Friendship Auditorium, 3201 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA

March 19, 2017 2:00pm-3:00pm - Signing at the 38th Annual Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Show at Glendale Civic Auditorium, 1401 Verdugo Rd, Glendale, CA 91208.

May 5, 2016 - Presenting original research on The Capitol Records Carpool Killing for the California Association of Criminalists Spring seminar (not a public event, but the case is featured on Esotouric's Hollywood! tour).
 
April 3, 2016 1:00pm-2:00pm - Signing at the 37th Annual Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Show at Glendale Civic Auditorium, 1401 N Verdugo Rd., Glendale, CA 91208

January 22, 2015, 7:00pm-9:00pm - Pasadena Central Library Talk: Kim Cooper and Richard Schave on "The Kept Girl" at DRW Auditorium, Pasadena Central Library, 285 E. Walnut St. Pasadena, CA 91101.

December 18, 2014, 7:00pm-9:00pm - KPCC's "Serial" Season 1 finale and debrief at The Crawford Family Forum, 474 South Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA 91105.

December 7, 2014, 2:00pm-5:00pm - "The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words" talk, book signing and walking tour at  Library Bar, 630 W 6th St., Los Angeles, CA, 90017.

November 2, 2014, 2:00pm-4:00pm - Bruckman Rare Book Friends Talk: Kim Cooper and Richard Schave on "The Kept Girl" at Mark Taper Auditorium, Los Angeles Public Library, 630 W 5th St., Los Angeles, CA, 90071.

October 8, 2014, 7:00pm-8:30pm - Sisters in Crime discuss Noir Fiction at Burbank Buena Vista Branch Library, 300 N. Buena Vista St., Burbank , CA, 91505.

September 27, 2014, 5:30pm-6:15pm - Panel discussion on Femme Fatales, Hardboiled Dames and Dragon Tattoos: Examining and Expanding the Female Archetype in Noir at West Hollywood Library and Park, 625 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069.

July 31, 2014, 6:00pm-8:30pm - Panel discussion on Noir California: The Masters of 20th Century Crime Fiction at Pasadena Central Library, 285 E. Walnut Street, Pasadena, CA, 91101.

July 17, 2104, 7:00pm-9:00pm - Book signing and reading at Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101.

April 13, 2014, 4:00-5:00pm - Los Angeles Times Festival of Books signing at the Sisters in Crime table (booth #367) with Rosalkind Barden, Donna Chaffee, Chris Lynch and Naomi Hirahara.

March 30, 2014, 12:00pm-2:00pm - LAVA Sunday Salon presentation from author Kim Cooper and cover artist Paul Rogers at Les Noces du Figaro, 618 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90014.

February 13, 2014, 7:30pm-9:00pm - Book release party at Skylight Books, 1818 N Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027. Sponsored by Lagunitas Brewing Company.

February 9, 2014, 8:00pm - Noir at the Bar, Kim Cooper reading with Holly West, Richard Lange, Terri Nolan and Eric Beetner, at Mandrake, 2692 S. La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90034-2604.

The Kept Girl Blog Tour runs through February 2014, at the following fine websites:



July 23, 2013 - At Raymond Chandler's 125th Birthday Celebration at the Los Angeles Athletic Club, Kim Cooper read the opening passage of The Kept Girl.