Wondering what book to bring with you on your holiday vacation? LA librarians have you covered -- our friends at Fishbowl LA report that the local literary ladies and gents have released a list of the top books of 2011. more ›

Aside from adultery, former California Govna' Arnold Schwarzenegger is keeping himself very busy. The bodybuilder turned movie star turned politician is planning a memoir. And its appropriate working title is "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story." more ›

When we first talked with LA-based writer Heather Havrilesky in 2004, she was working as the TV critic for Salon.com. Fast forward seven years, and she's just published her memoir Disaster Preparedness and makes a stop at Vroman's bookstore in Pasadena tonight at 7 pm for a reading. (She'll also be making another appearance at the West Hollywood Library on Saturday, Jan. 29 at 2 pm if you can't make it tonight.) more ›

In a move perhaps aimed to articulate her triumph over great adversity, de-throned Miss California USA Carrie Prejean has just signed a book deal to tell "her side of the story," with "conservative book house Regnery Publishing," KTLA is reporting. Prejean will discuss "what happened behind the scenes at the pageant and why she answered the question posed to her by Perez Hilton the way she did," and hopefully give insight to her subsequent firing by The Donald in the tome, to be titled Still Standing. more ›

The much-maligned, oft-hated James Frey, author of the fictional memoir A Million Little Pieces and the man most well-known for being dissed on national TV by Oprah Winfrey, is back. While many now agree that blame for the whole Frey-affair rests with both Frey and his publisher, Frey got the bad end of the deal and has been vilified ever since. This time, he's sticking with fiction instead of peddling fiction-as-truth. His new novel, Bright Shiny Morning, is about LA and he's signing books tomorrow night (with Josh Kilmer Purcell and Black Tide) at the Whisky a Go Go in a joint event with Book Soup and Vroman's. more ›

New York author, media maven and baker extraordinaire Felicia Sullivan is in town this week to read from and sign her Brooklyn-based memoir of family addiction, recovery and hope in The Sky Isn't Visible from Here. Sullivan will be reading tonight @ Pi Restaurant next door to Book Soup at 7pm and tomorrow @ Vroman's at 4pm. more ›

First off this LAist was running late this morning and left his camera at home. Since I had to go to the Grove straight from work to make it on time, there is no photo of the event. No photo of me planting John Amaechi a wet sloppy kiss. So sorry folks. Amaechi’s appearance at Barnes & Noble at the Grove concluded his whirlwind promotional tour for his memoir Man in the Middle which... more ›