Tongue and Groove, the monthly reading and music series, teams up with the newish quarterly print magazine Slake: LA, for an evening of essay, fiction and poetry tonight at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood this evening. Readers tonight are contributors to the upcoming second issue of Slake—founded last year by former LA Weekly editors Laurie Ochoa and Joe Donnelly as a paean to the printed page and long-form writing. more ›

L.A.'s very own debut novelist and litblogger extraordinaire, Mark Sarvas, will be reading from his first novel Harry, Revised tomorrow night at 6pm @ Hotel Cafe as part of the Tongue & Groove reading series. Harry, Revised is set in L.A, features several of your favorite & not so favorite neighborhoods, highlights the darker perils of plastic surgery, examines a bevy of relationships gone awry, and offers a hilarious take on the bizarre and oh-so-L.A. spinning class culture. Sarvas is an excellent reader, especially with such funny material to read and with The Hotel Cafe as a backdrop, it promises to be a quintessentially L.A. literary evening. more ›