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Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
Monday
Shalom Auslander presents Foreskin's Lament 7pm @ Vroman's
Valerie Plame Wilson presents Fair Game 7pm @ Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Long Beach
Barbara Firestone presents Autism Heroes 7pm @ Dutton's
Slash presents Slash 7pm @ Borders, Torrance
Lawrence Wright presents The Looming Tower 7:30pm @ UCLA
Tuesday
David Plante, with host Mark Danielewski, presents ABC 7pm @ Book Soup
Michael Lent presents Christmas Letters from Hell 7pm @ Vroman's
Tommy Lasorda & Bill Plaschke present I Live for This! 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove
Dan Dunn presents Nobody Likes a Quitter 7pm @ Book Soup
Wednesday
Slash presents Slash 6pm @ Whisky A Go-Go
Julius Shulman presents Modernism Rediscovered 7pm @ Central Library
Borat Zagdiyev presents Borat: Touristic Guidings to Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 7pm @ Borders, Westwood
Christine L. Borgman presents Scholarship in the Digital Age 7pm @ Dutton's
Tommy Lasorda and Bill Plaschke presents I Live for This! 7pm @ Vroman's
Michael Lent presents Christmas Letters from Hell 7pm @ Book Soup
Chris Jericho presents A Lion's Tale 7pm @ Borders, Torrance
Bill Nericcio presents Text Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the Mexican in America 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Barbara Firestone presents Autism Heroes 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove
Marc Norman presents What Happens Next: A History of American Screen Writing 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade
Patricia Goldstone presents Aaronshohn's Maps 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, Encino
Heather McGowan presents Duchess of Nothing 7:30pm @ Otis School of Art & Design
Thursday
Karen Bender presents Choice 7pm @ Dutton's
James Nemec presents Touch the Ocean 7pm @ Book Soup
Merrill Joan Gerber presnts The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn 7pm @ Vroman's
Dr. Craig Venter presents A Life Decoded 7pm @ Central Library
Chris Jericho presents A Lion's Tale 7:30pm @ Hollywood United Methodist Church
Friday
Michael Grecco, with Tera Patrick, presents Naked Ambition 7pm @ Book Soup
Isis Aquarian and the Source family present The Source 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Saturday
Red Hen Press poets Nickole Brown and Jeanette Clough read their work 2pm @ Dutton's
Thomas M. DeFrank presents Write It When I'm Gone 3pm @ Vroman's
Judith Freeman presents The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved 5pm @ Skylight Books
Louise Salon presents Knock Yourself Up 5pm @ Book Soup
John O'Hurley presents Before Your Dog Can Eat Your Homework 7pm @ Vroman's
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Sunday
Judith Jones presents The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food 2pm @ Vroman's
Anne Black Gray presents Laughing Sickness: A Medical Mystery 2pm @ Dutton's
Ronald Brownstein presents Second Civil War 4pm @ Book Soup
Virginia Lee Hunter presents Carny: Americana on the Midway 7pm @ Book Soup
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