While we have reason to celebrate our A-list local bookstores, this week brings sad news for two SoCal independent book retailers who have announced they're closing up shop. more ›

He might have played a big box book retailer in 1998's You've Got Mail, but in real life, actor Tom Hanks is pitching for the little guy, namely Pacific Palisades' Village Books. Local blog Tabloid Baby explains that Hanks is trying to help efforts to save the store by signing books there tonight. more ›

Alan Jacobson signs The 7th Victim 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, Encino more ›

First Dutton's closed, then Beyond Baroque was in trouble, but then wasn't, but might be again soon. It was only last December when Village Books was having a "we might have to go out of business sale" that was sucessful enough they didn't have to close. For a town that is closing its beloved bookstores and hacking its own Book Review section to pieces, we were delighted to learn that Skylight Books is...that's right...expanding! more ›

Donald Welch presents and signs The Bachelorette Party 7pm @ Book Soup more ›

Walter Mirisch signs I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History 8pm @ The Wine Bar at The Landmark more ›

David Benioff presents City of Theives 7pm @ Borders, Westwood more ›

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs presents Paper Pavillion 8:30pm @ Village Books more ›

Cindy Pierce and Edie Thys Morgan presents Finding the Doorbell 7pm @ Book Soup more ›

Sue Grafton signs T is for Trespass 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade more ›

Robert Hass presents Time & Materials 7pm @ Central Library more ›

If you support independent anything, listen up: Village Books in Pacific Palisades is on the verge of closing. Thank you big box chains, for screwing with the independents again. more ›

Monday Eliot Tiegel presents The Latinization of America 6:30pm @ Book Soup Judith Freeman discusses and signs The Long Embrace 7pm @ Vroman's Roz Chast discusses Theories of Everything 7pm @ Central Library Robert Kuttner in conversation with Arianna Huffington about The Squandering of America 8pm @ James Bridge Theater, UCLA Tuesday Cesar Millan presents Be the Pack Leader 7pm @ Borders, Pasadena Frank McCourt presents Angela and the Baby Jesus 7pm @ Borders,... more ›

Monday Dave Isay, from StoryCorps, presents Listening Is an Act of Love 7pm @ Vroman's Johan Lehrer presents Proust Was a Neuroscientist 7pm @ Dutton's Nigella Lawson presents The Domestic Goddess 7pm Borders, Torrance Tom Brokaw presents Boom! Voices of the Sixties 7:30pm @ Temple Emanuel Tuesday Clive Barker presents Mister B. Gone 7pm @ Vroman's Gregory Rodriguez presents Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans & Vagabonds 7pm @ Central Library Susanne Daniels presents Season Finale 7pm @... more ›

Jason Goodwin discusses and signs The Snake Stone 7pm @ Vroman's more ›

Red Hen Press poets read their work 8pm @ Boston Court Main Stage, Pasadena more ›

Kenneth Turan presents Never Coming to a Theater Near You 7pm @ Studio City Branch Library more ›

Sy Safransky discusses his work and The Sun 7:30pm @ Beverly Hills Public Library more ›

Monday Moonday poetry reading 7:30pm @ Village Books Tuesday David Lynch signs Inland Empire 7pm @ Borders, Westwood Elaine Dundy presents The Dud Avocado 7pm @ Book Soup Warren Mar presents Descanso 7pm @ Vroman's Kiara Brinkman signs High Up in the Trees 7pm @ Dutton's Wednesday Adrienne Barbeau presents There Are Worse Things I Could Do 7pm @ Book Soup Nobody Reads in LA presents Charles Bukowski's Post Office (it's his birthday!) 7pm... more ›

Gordy Slack presents The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything 7pm @ Vroman's more ›

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... more ›

Dana Bedford Hilmer and contributors present Blindsided by a Diaper 7pm @ Dutton's more ›

If you haven't managed to rest-up after your July 4th blow-out, you get one more day. But that's it! more ›

Lisa See discusses and signs Peony In Love 7pm @ Vroman's more ›

Trevor Corson discusses and signs The Zen of Fish 7pm @ Vroman's more ›

Monday Elizabeth Gilbert discusses and signs Eat Pray Love 7pm @ Vroman's Sasha Abramsky presents American Furies 7pm @ Book Soup Bruce Dern signs Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have 7pm @ Dutton's Tuesday Michael Ondaatje presents Divisadero 7pm @ Central Library James St. James presents Freak Show 7pm @ Book Soup Ann Brashares discusses and signs The Last Summer (of You and Me) 7pm @ Vroman's Robert Ellis presents City of Fire... more ›

Larry Doyle presents I Love You Beth Cooper 7pm @ Borders, Westwood more ›

Susanna Moore signs The Big Girls 7pm @ Dutton's more ›

Monday Nathan Englander discusses The Ministry of Special Cases 7pm @ Central Library Nassim Assefi presents Aria 7pm @ Dutton's Bill Bryan presents Keep It Real 7pm @ Book Soup Carolyn See signs There Will Never Be Another You 7pm @ Platt Branch Library Tuesday Antoine Wilson presents The Interloper 7pm @ Dutton's Bruce Dern presents Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have 7pm @ Book Soup Helena Maria Viramontes & Manuel Munoz discuss... more ›

Chris Abani & Al Young read their work 7:30pm @ Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater more ›