Nearly every night in L.A., literary pop-ups are taking place in unexpected spots like vacant lots, living rooms, rooftops and outside a carnicería.
The reading was more of a house show in more of an uncovered garage. Nitrous-filled balloons anddotted the buoyant crowd, who treated the writers as rock stars, and the literary event turned out more of a parenthesis than the main point, which was to party.
At Factory Made, an emergent reading series named after Andy Warhol’s star-making studio, theatrics and personae count as much as poetry and prose. “Surprise: I’m hot too,” said Kennedy Wright during aJulian Castronovo reads for the crowd at a Factory Made poetry reading.Factory Made’s creator, Jasmine Johnson, likes the vamping and banter.
Her lineups have included a rapper’s screenplay, autofiction about a transgender woman’s improbable pregnancy and a meth-driven emergency room play-by-play. In another life, she said, she’d be in public relations. Her first show in January was an improvised takeover ofin Koreatown after her studio apartment’s manager kicked out the 100-person horde.
“I’ll say I’m doing a reading, and people will get confused and ask, ‘Like a palm reading?’” Johnson said. L.A.’s myths are more cinematic than bookish, but Johnson is part of a creative underclass revising the L.A. literary scene writ large. Forged in urban sprawl and COVID-19, guerrilla readings pop up in unexpected spots like vacant spaces, living rooms and rooftops, adding a DIY frisson to nightlife. These free events and their offshoots are happening nearly every night of the week — and sometimes they inspire attendees to start their own.
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