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Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
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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 Perry signs Silence 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade
Mike Carey presents The Devil You Know 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, Encino
Wednesday
Chip Kidd discusses his work as well as recent and forthcoming books 7pm @ Central Library
Robyn Meredith presents The Elephant & the Dragon 7pm @ Vroman's
Joy Horowitz signs Parts per Million: The Poisoning of Beverly Hills High School 7pm @ Dutton's
Ellen Sussman presents Bad Girls 7pm @ Book Soup
Jerry Stahl presents Love Without 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade
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Thursday
Emma Forest, Francesca Lia Block and Samantha Dunn present Damage Control 7pm @ Book Soup
Carrie Karasyov presents The Infidelity Pact 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade
Kurt Wenzel presents Exposure 7pm @ Book Soup
Gregg Hurwitz signs The Crime Writer 7pm @ Dutton's
Douglas Kearney reads from Fear, Some 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Beatrice Hohenegger signs Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West 7:30pm @ Village Books
Friday
Kristine McKenna & Tosh Berman present Wallace Berman: Photographs 7pm @ Book Soup
David Hasselhoff presents Don't Hassle the Hoff 7pm @ Book Soup
Victoria Zackheim and contributing writers present The Other Woman 7pm @ Dutton's
Ehrhard Bahr signs Weimar on the Pacific 7:30pm @ Village Books
Sesshu Foster and Ben Ehrenreich read their work 8pm @ Tropico De Nopal Gallery-Art Space
Saturday
Mark Langill presents Game of My Life:Dodgers 3pm @ Borders, Brea
Joe Massengale presents Six Lessons for Six Sons 3pm @ Borders, Pasadena
James St. James presents Freak Show 4pm @ Vroman's
Jonathan Selwood presents The Pinball Theory of the Apocalypse 5pm @ Skylight Books
Gayle Brandeis & Diane Lefer read their work to explore Art & Activism: Writers on Politics Now 7:30pm @ Beyond Baroque
Sunday
Eloise Klein Healy presents The Islands Project 5pm @ Skylight Books
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