A coalition of L.A.-based literary organizations and allies sent a letter to L.A. City Council Monday requesting financial aid during the pandemic.
Author James Patterson is donating $500,000 to help indie bookstores across the country. For many L.A. booksellers, that could be a life saver.Michelle Franke, executive director of PEN America in L.A., said authors are especially worried. “There’s a tremendous amount of concern, particularly with people who are getting ready to release books in the spring and summer,” she said.
The letter’s signatories hope literary organizations, which “are always fighting for specific designation in art funding,” are earmarked in any relief packages passed by the council.Arts Emergency Relief Fund , the letter added:"[W]e must note that writers as a specific creative community have frequently been left out of most relief efforts. It is clear that this is a group of artists central to LA’s previously booming creative economy—journalists, novelists, nonfiction authors, screen and television writers, poets, essayists, playwrights, translators, editors, and copywriters.
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