Brunchin’ with the Author is an intimate brunch experience where you can meet BIPOC authors and connect with fellow local bookworms.
Post & Beam
3767 Santa Rosalia Drive Los Angeles, CA 90008
Brunchin’ with the Author is an intimate brunch experience where you can meet BIPOC authors and connect with fellow local bookworms. Hosted by Jessica, founder of Literature Noir – a virtual book club focused on BIPOC authors and centering community & wellness.
This event will allow you to ask questions directly to the author, create community with fellow readers, and experience an amazing brunch at Post & Beam – a black-owned restaurant in Baldwin Hills, a staple in Los Angeles.
Our first featured author will be the author of STASH: My Life in Hiding and podcaster, Laura Cathcart Robbins.
Each ticket includes:
- Your meal (entree + 1-2 beverages – alcoholic beverages will not be covered)
- Exclusive goodie bag with products from our featured sponsors
- A copy of STASH: My Life in Hiding
Our Sponsors:
About Laura:
Laura Cathcart Robbins is the best-selling author of the Atria/Simon & Schuster memoir, Stash, My Life In Hiding, and host of the popular podcast, The Only One In The Room. She has been active for many years as a speaker and school trustee and is credited for creating The Buckley School’s nationally recognized committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Her recent articles on the subjects of race, recovery, and divorce have garnered her worldwide acclaim. She is the SDWF’s 2024 Memoirist Of The Year, a TEDx Speaker, and an LA Moth StorySlam winner. Currently, she sits on the advisory boards of the San Diego Writer’s Festival and the Outliers HQ podcast Festival.
About STASH: My Life in Hiding
In the vein of Somebody’s Daughter, this wild, vivid addiction memoir from the host of the podcast The Only One in the Room “will inspire, awe, entertain, educate, and help so many readers” (Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author of Group) with a journey to sobriety and self-love amidst privilege and racism.
After years of hiding her addiction from everyone—stockpiling pills in her Louboutins and elaborately scheduling her withdrawals between PTA meetings, baby showers, and tennis matches—Laura Cathcart Robbins is running out of places to hide.
She has learned the hard way that even her high-profile marriage and Hollywood lifestyle can’t protect her from the pain she’s keeping bottled up inside. Facing divorce, the possibility of a grueling custody battle, and the insistent voice of internalized racism that nags at her as a Black woman in a startlingly white world, Laura wonders just how much more she can take.
Now, with courageous and candid openness, she reveals how she started the long journey towards sobriety, unexpectedly found new love, and dismantled the wall she had built around herself, brick by brick. With its raw, finely crafted, and engaging prose, Stash is “emotionally riveting…usher[ing] in a new way for us to talk and read about the paradoxes of addiction, race, family, class, and gender.” (Kiese Laymon, acclaimed author of Heavy, Long Division, and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America)
Named a Best Memoir of 2023 by Elle
“An emotionally absorbing and swiftly paced multisensory experience.” The New York Times Book Review
