Events

The London School of Economics Department of Sociology hosted a live discussion about “Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties” on June 8: Mike Davis and Jon Wiener in conversation with Robin Kelley discussed the sixties’ movements in LA and their relevance today.
Click HERE to view the video.

YouTube live event for Seattle’s Red May: Magally Miranda Alcazar in conversation with Mike Davis and Jon Wiener about “Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties” – broadcast May 12, 2020.
Magally Miranda is a grad student in Chicano Studies at UCLA; she has published in the New Left Review and The Nation.
watch HERE

Virtual book launch: Tuesday, April 14, 2020: WATCH HERE
Please join us for the virtual book launch of Mike Davis and Jon Wiener’s new book, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties. Joining Davis and Wiener in conversation is Tom Lutz, founder and editor-in-chief of Los Angeles Review of Books and author, most recently, of Born Slippy. They will discuss Set the Night on Fire and its many resonances for urban communities today, the recent effects of COVID-19 on Los Angeles, and take live questions from the audience.
Sponsored by Verso Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Democratic Socialists of America Los Angeles.

Panel moderator: “Creating Climate Change Narratives,” with climate movement hero Bill McKibben; New York Times magazine writer Nathaniel Rich; USC Professor Manuel Pastor; and Pulitzer-prize winning New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert, author of “The Sixth Extinction.”  At the conference “Fire and Ice: The Shifting Narrative of Climate Change”  February 8, 2019.  More info HERE

Panel on draft resistance in LA during the Vietnam war, featuring Paul Barnes Lake, Geoffrey Fishman and Joe Maizlish of the Los Angeles Resistance, who all served time in federal prison.
July 19, 2018: More info HERE

Panel with New Yorker writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, Harvard Law Professor and MacArthur Genius Annette Gordon-Reed, Bancroft Prize winner and Princeton Professor Sean Wilentz, and local hero and LA Times columnist Gustavo Arellano.  Opening session of conference on “American Identity and the Ideal of Democracy in the 21st Century,” organized by Amy Wilentz.  Feb. 9, 2018,
more info HERE

My conversation with David Cole about his new book “Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law,” sponsored by the SoCal ACLU:
June 15, 2016, 7pm Ward AME Church, 1177 West 25th St. in LA.

LISTEN to the iTunes podcast HERE
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade, American volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War, are legendary heroes in the fight against fascism. 
ADAM HOCHSCHILD tells their story in his new book Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39.
Adam is an award-winning author and one of the founders of Mother Jones magazine.
LA Public Library ALOUD series, April 4, 2016

Watch BookTV video HERE
“Everything Connects: Building Blocks of Daily Life”
my panel this year at the LA Times Festival of Books at USC, Hancock Foundation auditorium, 1:30pm; featuring
–Jonathan Waldman, “Rust: The Longest War”;
–Edward Humes, “Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation”;
–Brian Fagan, “The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History.”
4/10/16

The panic began in 1692, when a minister’s daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged.  I’ll be in conversation with the Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Véra, about the wild story of the Salem Witch Trials.  Her new book is The Witches.
LISTEN HERE  11/3/2015