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......

Monday If you haven't managed to rest-up after your July 4th blow-out, you get one more day. But that's it! Tuesday Emily White presents You Will Make Money in Your Sleep 7pm @ Book Soup Patricia Schultz signs 1000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die 7pm @ Dutton's Stephen L. Carter presents New England White 7pm @ EsoWon Books John Amaechi signs Man in the Middle 7:30pm @ Barnes......

When LAist thinks of John Lithgow and food, some kind of a shiny extra-terrestrial pear pops into our head. We suggest you put that image out of your mind, however, if you're so inclined to see the former "3rd Rock from the Sun" star read aloud short-stories — about food — at this weekend's Food Fictions! at the Getty Center (Friday- Sunday, May 19-21). He's one of several actors who will be orating culinary-inspired......

The Believer's April 2006 issue and web site have several articles about LA and/or by LA writers. As we've mentioned, in Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A." , Jenny Price takes the facetious response she gets when she tells people at cocktail parties that she is a Los Angeles-based nature writer, --"Is there nature in LA?" --as the starting point for her meditation on the natural world in the city, or the city......