(Screen)Writing Against Type

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A LARB conversation w/ Brandon Easton, Walter Mosley, Paula Yoo, & Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn on writing, genre, and audience expectations

<h3>Join the Los Angeles Review of Books on Thursday, June 24 at 5pm (PST) for a roundtable conversation with acclaimed authors and screenwriters Brandon Easton, Walter Mosley, &amp; Paula Yoo, moderated by journalist and author Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn. </h3><h3>This event is free and open to the public.</h3>

If it is within your means, however, we invite you to support our public programming here at the Los Angeles Review of Books, a 501(c)(3) literary and cultural arts nonprofit, by making a donation with your RSVP today.<h3>Suggested Donations $5 - $25+</h3>Donate $5+ and receive LARB's Best of TV, a beautiful, curated selection of the best essays and TV criticism published by the Los Angeles Review of Books, as a digital download.Donate $25+ and receive your choice of limited edition <a href="https://larbbooks.org/shop/merch/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">LARB tote</a> AND LARB's Best of TV, a beautiful, curated selection of the best television criticism and essays published by the Los Angeles Review of Books, as a digital download.For more information about the event, contact Irene (irene@lareviewofbooks.org).

<h2>THE SPEAKERS</h2>Brandon Easton broke into television writing with the Warner Bros. Animation 2011 reboot of Thundercats and Transformers: Rescue Bots. His original graphic novel Shadowlaw won the 2013 Glyph Award for Best Writer. He won five 2014 Glyph Awards and was nominated for an Eisner Award for his African-American inspired Watson and Holmes. An alumnus of the Disney/ABC Writing Program, Brandon wrote on season two of Marvel&#x27;s Agent Carter and adapted the Japanese horror franchise Vampire Hunter D for TV. He has written on a variety of recent and upcoming graphic novels including Judge Dredd: False Witness, Marvel Action Spider-Man, Transformers: Galaxies, and the hit Netflix TV series Transformers – War for Cybertron: Siege. Brandon currently writes DC Comics’ Mister Miracle: The Source of Freedom and is on the Blizzard Entertainment writing team.<a href="https://twitter.com/BrandonEaston" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Twitter </a><a href="https://twitter.com/paulayoo" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a>| <a href="https://www.instagram.com/brandoneastonwriter/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a>Walter Mosley is the author of more than sixty critically acclaimed books of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and plays. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages. From the first novel he published, Devil in a Blue Dress and its protagonist Easy Rawlins, Mosley’s work has explored the lives of Black men and women in America—past, present and future—in a rich exploration of genre. He has had several of his books adapted for film and television including Devil in a Blue Dress and Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. His short fiction and nonfiction essays have been published in a wide range of outlets including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Nation. He is also a writer and an executive producer on the John Singleton FX drama series, “Snowfall.” <a href="http://www.waltermosley.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Website</a> Paula Yoo is an award-winning children’s book &amp; YA author, screenwriter, and musician. Her latest book, From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement (Norton Young Readers/W.W. Norton &amp; Co.), a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard, received five starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Horn Book, Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal. She has sold pilots and features, and her TV credits include NBC’s The West Wing, SyFy’s Eureka, Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle, and The CW’s Supergirl. She is also a former journalist for The Seattle Times, The Detroit News, and PEOPLE Magazine. When she’s not writing, Paula is a professional violinist who has played and toured with orchestras and such national recording acts as No Doubt, Il Divo, and Love. <a href="https://paulayoo.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/paulayoo" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/paulayoo/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a> | <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324002871" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">YouTube</a>Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn is a journalist, essayist and co-author of Swirling: How to Date, Mate, and Relate Mixing Race, Culture, and Creed (Atria/Simon &amp; Schuster). She is currently developing a novel based on characters from her screenplay, Those People: A Love Story, and writing stories for a forthcoming memoir chronicling life, love, and rediscovery during menopause. Janice is the former Senior Editor of Women, Culture and Media for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and writes for Ms. Magazine, Shondaland Digital Media, among other publications. She works at the University of Southern California as Associate Director for the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities. <a href="https://janicelittlejohn.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Website </a>| <a href="https://www.instagram.com/janicerhoshalle/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceRhoshalle" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Twitter</a>JOIN THE CONVERSATION THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 5:00 PM PT via Zoom

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