[Update: Jan. 3, 2022, 1 p.m.] The book-signing on January 3 has been cancelled. In advance of the event, Carmen Lodise decided to be tested for COVID, and the result was positive. He says he has no real symptoms, is fully boosted, but must quarantine for five days.
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Longtime Isla Vista agitator Carmen Lodise has written a memoir — Carmelo: The Adventures of a Smalltime Instigator — on the heels of the second edition of his Isla Vista: A Citizen's History, which was reissued in 2019. In advance of a signing for the new book — which covers family, traveling, substances, and politics with Lodise's always perceptive eye and frank clarity — he chose a couple of passages from the autobiography to share. The event takes place Monday, January 3 at 5 p.m. at Chaucer's Books, Loreto Plaza, 3321 State Street.