Red Velvet Remnants | Photo by pink_fish13 via Flickr Monday David Maraniss discusses and signs Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World 7pm @ Vroman's Christopher Reich signs Rules Of Deception 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade Tuesday Christian Lander presents and signs Stuff White People Like 7pm @ Book Soup Kai Chen discusses and signs One in a Billion: Journey to Freedom 7pm @ Vroman's Adrienne Barbeau signs Vampyres of......

MOCA-Goer | Photo by shearforce via Flickr Monday Elizabeth Brundage discusses and signs Somebody Else's Daughter 7pm @ Vroman's Daniel A. Helminiak presents and signs What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality 7pm @ Book Soup Tuesday Barry M. Goldwater Jr. signs Pure Goldwater 1pm @ Village Books Adam Nimoy presents and signs My Incredible Wonderful, Miserable Life 7pm @ Book Soup Bret Lott discusses and signs Ancient Highway 7pm @ Vroman's Wednesday Brent......

Wet Vantage Point | Photo by maverick2003 via Flickr Monday Jess Winfield discusses & signs My Name is Will 7pm @ Vroman's Donald Welch presents and signs The Bachelorette Party 7pm @ Book Soup Tuesday Don Felder signs Heaven & Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001) 6:30pm @ Vroman's Stan Lee presents and signs Election Daze: What Are They Really Saying? 7pm @ Book Soup Denise Hamilton signs The Last Embrace 7pm @......

Open All Night Downtown | Photo by zabowski via Flickr Monday Paul Knobloch and Tosh Berman presents and sign The Dead All Have the Same Skin 7pm @ Book Soup Janet Evanovich signs Fearless Fourteen 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade Tuesday Jessica Brody presents and signs The Fidelity Files 7pm @ Book Soup Darin Strauss discusses and signs More Than It Hurts You 7pm @ Vroman's Deanne Stillman discusses Mustang: The......

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......

Dark Downtown Tunnel | Photo by ericcastro via Flickr Tuesday Laura Dave presents and signs The Divorce Party 7pm @ Book Soup Garth Stein discusses and signs The Art of Racing in the Rain 7pm @ Vroman's Alix Strauss presents Have I Got a Guy for You 7pm @ Borders, Hollywood Preeta Samsarasan presents Evening is the Whole Day 7:30pm @ Borders, The Grove Gary Panter discusses Gary Panter with Matt Groening 7:30pm @......

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......

Monday Anne Fadiman presents At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays 7pm @ Vroman's Susan Kandel presents Christietown 7pm @ Book Soup Lori Andrews signs The Silent Assassin 7pm @ Dutton's Tuesday Todd McCarthy presents Fast Women: The Legendary Ladies of Racing 7pm @ Book Soup Lauren Kessler presents Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's 7pm @ Central Library Wednesday Armistead Maupin presents Michael Tolliver Lives 7pm @ Central Library......

Tuesday Ron Carlson discusses and signs Five Skies 7pm @ Vroman's Susanna Moore signs The Big Girls 7pm @ Dutton's Wednesday Susan Davis signs Gathering Sound 7pm @ Dutton's Susanna Moore discusses The Big Girls 7pm @ Vroman's Thursday Don Rickles presents Rickles' Book: A Memoir 7pm @ Book Soup Kerry Madden signs Louisiana’s Song 7pm @ Dutton's Sage Bennet presents Wisdom Walk 7pm @ Borders, Pasadena Susan Straight signs A Million Nightingales 7:30pm......

We live in a town of talent. A talented town. Yet, the talent that's making the most noise, is usually (dare we say it?) without talent. We think of Paris Hilton at this juncture. We think of the many would-be famesters that litter our clubs and sidewalks and cafes while off the set from their "reality" shows involving our fair beaches. While these no-talents (because haven't we established that?) run around and make a......

Monday Chuck Palahniuk presents Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey 6:30pm @ Vroman's Tony Cohan signs Mexican Days 7pm @ Dutton's Donna Hogan (Anna Nicole's Sister) presents The Life and Death of Anna Nicole Smith 7pm @ Book Soup Rick Riordan signs The Titan's Curse 7pm @ Borders, Torrance Joan Didion discusses The Year of Magical Thinking 8pm @ Music Center Tuesday Tish Cohen & Rex Pickett present Town House 7pm @ Book......

Ice Cube @ House of Blues Art Brut (above) @ The Troubadour Smoosh @ Knitting Factory Rita Coolidge @ Torrance Cultural Arts Center Pitbull, Tego Calderon, Ying Yang Twins, Ilegales @ Honda Center Eek-A-Mouse @ Vault 350 The Barbarellatones @ Boardners The Makers @ Spaceland Colin Hay @ Largo Joshua Radin @ El Rey Lady Sinatra, Warner Drive, Itis @ Viper Room Atomic Punks, SWAA, Myridian @ Paladino's Tennis Club, The Front, Killsonic, The......

Monday T.C. Boyle reads and chats with David Ulin 7pm @ Mark Taper Forum Jennifer Kaufman & Karen Mack present Literacy and Longing in L.A. 7pm @ Studio Branch Library Denise Hamilton & contributors signs Los Angeles Noir 7pm @ Borders Torrance Pat Montandon discusses Oh, the Hell of It All 7pm @ Vroman's Tuesday Barry Glassner discusses The Gospel of Food 7pm @ Central Library Kirk Douglas signs Let's Face It 7pm @......

Here’s the thing: this book isn’t even out yet. But because we live in Los Angeles, and this book is about Los Angeles, you’re in luck. We’re all in luck. Denise Hamilton and the bevy of supremely talented noir writers that contributed stories to this book are signing all over town this week. And the book will be, yes, you guessed it – available for signing at the readings two weeks before the rest of......

Monday Jonathan Lethem discusses You Don’t Love Me Yet 7pm @ Central Library (one!) Susan Diamond signs What Goes Around 7pm @ Dutton’s Tuesday Joe Boyd presents White Bicycles: Making Music in the 60s 7pm @ Book Soup Jonathan Lethem presents You Don’t Love Me Yet 7pm @ Vroman’s (two!) Dani Shapiro signs Black & White 7pm @ Dutton’s Etgar Keret reads The Nimrod Flipout 7:30pm @ Skirball Cultural Center Wednesday Natsuo Kirino presents......

Monday Robert Fagan discusses The Notebooks of Robert Frost 7pm @ Vroman’s Rebecca Liebermann signs We Are Still Here 7pm @ Dutton’s Brentwood Josh Peter discusses Fried Twinkies, Buckle Bunnies & Bull Riders 7pm @ Studio City Branch Library Tuesday David Lynch presents Catching the Big Fish 7pm @ Borders in Westwood Martin Amis discusses House of Meetings 7pm @ Central Library Robert Stone & John Densmore in conversation about Remembering the Sixties 7:30pm......