Elephant in the Sky at Hollywood & Highland | Photo by huangjiahui via Flickr Monday Scott McClellan signs What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade Phyllis Gebauer discusses and signs Hot Widow 7pm @ Vroman's Marianne Wiggins signs The Shadow Catcher 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove Salman Rushdie discusses The Enchantress of Florence with Carrie Fisher 7:30pm @ Writers......

Gorgeous floral spikes at the Getty | Photo by oscalito via Flickr Monday Stephanie Klein presents and signs Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp 7pm @ Book Soup Tom Zimmerman discusses and signs Paradise Promoted 7pm @ Vroman's Paul Roberts discusses The End of Food with Lisa Brenneis & Bill Fujimoto 7pm @ Central Library Tuesday Jeffrey Lewis presents and signs Adam the King 7pm @ Book Soup Stephanie Klein discusses & signs Moose:......

New Mural near La Brea & Melrose. Learn more about the artwork here | Photo by bumblebee via Flickr Monday Mark Sarvas discusses and signs Harry, Revised 7pm @ Vroman's Mike Farrell presents Just Call Me Mike 7pm @ Book Soup Tuesday Brian May presents Bang! The Complete History of the Universe 4pm @ Book Soup Millard Kaufman discusses Bowl of Cherries 7pm @ Central Library Adam Novak presents The Non-Pro 7pm @ Book......

Ominous Eye in the Arts District Downwtown | Photo by unobtanium via Flickr Monday Sloane Crosley presents I Was Told There'd Be Cake 7pm @ Book Soup Christopher Rauschenberg presents Paris Changing: Revisiting Eugène Atget's Paris 7pm @ Central Library Valerie Mendenhall Cohen presents Woman on the Rocks 7pm @ Vroman's Tuesday Mary Roach presents BONK: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex 7pm @ Central Library David Samuels presents Only Love Can Break......

Griffith Park Bridge | Photo by mavric2003 via Flickr Monday Jose Canseco signs Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball 7pm @ Book Soup Kate Mosse presents Sepulchre 7pm @ Vroman's Jeffrey Sachs discusses Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet 7pm @ Central Library Tuesday Dave Rensin presents All for a Few Perfect Waves 7pm @ Book Soup Robert Levinson presents In the Key of Death 7:30pm @ Skylight......

Getty Center Garden Now in Bloom | Photo by pcphoto via Flickr Monday Junot Díaz presents The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 7pm @ Hammer Museum Martha Sherrill presents Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain 7pm @ Vroman's Gene Wilder signs The Woman Who Wouldn't 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove Tuesday Sue Miller discusses The Senator's Wife with Michelle Huneven 6pm @ Central Library Micheline Aharonian Marcom presents......

Many LAist staffers, contributors and readers were deeply troubled by the news of Dutton's closure. We all have a favorite memory of Dutton's - a particular book we discovered there, an admired author we met at a reading, a certain afternoon spent browsing. We'd like to honor the many unique memories of Dutton's that we all share with a series of posts about what Dutton's meant to us and what it meant to you. Our......

Monday Michael Pollan and Barry Glassner discuss In Defense of Food 7pm @ Central Library Cindy Pierce and Edie Thys Morgan presents Finding the Doorbell 7pm @ Book Soup Tuesday Traci Slatton presents Immortal 6:30pm @ Metropolis Books Joe McGinniss and special guest Bret Easton Ellis present The Delivery Man 7pm @ Book Soup Terri Cheney discusses and signs Manic: A Memoir 7pm @ Vroman's Gary Goldberg presents Sit, Ubu, Sit 7pm @ Dutton's......