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Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
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Monday
Gordy Slack presents The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything 7pm @ Vroman's
Tuesday
Kimberlee Auerbach presents The Devil, The Lovers and Me: My Life in Tarot 7pm @ Book Soup
Gregg Hurwitz presents The Crime Writer 7pm @ Borders, Century City
Kirk Douglas presents Let's Face It 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, Encino
Wednesday
Laurie Viera Rigler presents Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict 7pm @ Vroman's
Helen Gilbert presents Okay Girls, Man Your Bunks 7pm @ Book Soup
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Thursday
Amelia Saltsman presents The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook 7pm @ Dutton's
Sholeh Wolpe, Douglas Kearney & Bart Edelmen read their poetry 7pm @ Metropolis Books
Anita Thompson presents The Gonzo Way 7pm @ Book Soup
Dr. Stewart Lonky and Rik J. Deitsch present Invisible Killers 7:30pm @ Village Books
Jon Weinberg presents A Calm Position 7:30pm @ Truxtop Gallery
Friday
William Gibson presents Spook Country 7pm @ Vroman's
Saturday
Caitlin McKenna presents Logging Off 3pm @ Borders, Brea
Kathleen Delaney presents Murder for Dessert 4pm @ Metropolis Books
Sunday
Sondra Ray presents Rock Your World with the Divine Mother 7pm @ Bodhi Tree Bookstore
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