Archilla — Canicula Bilingual Reading

“Sunday at the bookstore on Sunset. A bilingual reading, half…”

The bilingual literary tradition believed Spanish and English could share a stage and not water each other down. So Stories Books & Cafe in Echo Park has been programming evenings like this for years — bilingual readings of poetry and prose where the audience splits about half and half and nobody apologizes for either language. Sunday August 2 features Archilla presenting from Canicula, with Desert Dialogues, Cartoon Distortion, El Ivanooo, and Arquitecto de Fecto reading alongside. Seven in the evening. Free admission, books for sale at the back. The cafe stays open. The audience is Mexican-American Echo Park, plus the Spanish-language MFA crowd from across LA, plus a few people who came in for tea and stayed. The room holds about fifty if everyone is patient. Doors before.