Everyone Has Something to Say about Fake South LA Memoir
Sherman Oaks and South LA made national news yesterday when a Los Angeles native, now based in Oregon, became the latest decried author who penned a fraudulent memoir. Yes, Margaret Seltzer grew up in the Valley, no Margaret B. Jones (her non de plume) did not gangbang in South Central as her book said.
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
Cindy Pierce and Edie Thys Morgan presents Finding the Doorbell 7pm @ Book Soup
Best Cookbooks, Part Deux: Rediscoveries
Following up on my last post, here are five favorites I return to time and time again. All are reliable sources for good eating!
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish L.A.
Sue Grafton signs T is for Trespass 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
Monday Will Beall presents L.A. Rex 7pm @ Book Soup Robert Alter & Jonathan Kirsch discuss The Book of Psalms with David Ulin 7pm @ Central Library Mark Schapiro signs Exposed 7pm @ Dutton's Richard King presents Spirituality in the Workplace 7pm @ Vroman's Alan Alda presents Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself 7pm @ Borders, Westwood Tuesday Bill Clinton presents Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World 2pm @ Vroman's...
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
Monday Mike Carey presents The Devil You Know 7pm @ Book Soup Tuesday Doug Stumpf presents Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy 7pm @ Book Soup Joy Horowitz presents Parts per Million: The Poisoning of Beverly Hills High School 7pm @ Central Library Michael Tucker signs Living a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine and Love in Italy 7pm @ Dutton's Jerry Stahl presents Love Without 7pm @ Borders, Long Beach Thomas...
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
Criss Angel presents Mindfreak: Secret Revelations 7pm @ Book Soup
Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
Alix Ohlin on Why Mysteries Matter: Detectives, Literature, and Life 7pm @ Central Library
Get Your Lit On - The Week in Bookish LA
Monday Paul Cummins signs Two Americas, Two Educations 7pm @ Dutton’s Tuesday Daniel Alarcon presents Lost City Radio 7:30 pm @ Skylight Books Jane Hirshfield reads poetry from After 7pm @ Hammer Museum Catherine Allgor presents A Perfect Union 7pm @ Vroman’s Brian Doherty Radicals for Capitalism 7pm @ Book Soup Tara Ison presents The List 7pm @ Borders Century City Wednesday Dinaw Mengestu signs The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears 7pm @ Dutton’s...
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