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Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA

By  Callie Miller
Published Sep 17, 2007 12:00 AM
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Monday
Will Beall presents L.A. Rex 7pm @ Book Soup
Robert Alter & Jonathan Kirsch discuss The Book of Psalms with David Ulin 7pm @ Central Library
Mark Schapiro signs Exposed 7pm @ Dutton's
Richard King presents Spirituality in the Workplace 7pm @ Vroman's
Alan Alda presents Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself 7pm @ Borders, Westwood

Tuesday
Bill Clinton presents Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World 2pm @ Vroman's
Leslie Cohen presents Trapped Inside the Story 6:30pm @ Venice Library
Gore Vidal presents Point to Point: A Memoir 6:45pm @ Claremont McKenna College
Alan Alda in discusses Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself with Mike Farrell 7pm @ Central Library
Andy Helfer presents Ronald Regan: A Graphic Biography 7pm @ Book Soup
Roger Director signs I Dream in Blue 7pm @ Dutton's
Nikki Sixx presents The Heroin Diaries 7:30pm @ Borders, Westwood
Mira Honeycutt presents California's Central Coast: The Ultimate Winery Guide 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove

Wednesday
Junot Diaz signs The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 7pm @ Dutton's
Ann Packer presents Songs Without Words 7pm @ Vroman's
Tim Weiner presents Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA 7pm @ Central Library
Rick Copp presetns Fingerprints & Facelifts 7pm @ Borders, Hollywood
Bill Marx presents Son of Harpo Speaks! 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove

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Thursday
Ray Bradbury discusses his work 6pm @ Encino-Tarzana Library
Katherine Taylor presents Rules for Saying Goodbye 7pm @ Vroman's
Lara Santoro signs Mercy 7pm @ Dutton's
Melissa Chiu presents Breakout: Chinese Art Outside China 7pm @ MOCA, Pacific Design Center
Pat Graham presents Silent Picutres 7pm @ Book Soup
Stephen Hunter presents The 47th Samurai 7pm @ Borders, Long Beach

Friday
No bookish events. Bizarre.

Saturday
Gronk & Maz Benavidez discuss Gronk 2pm @ MOCA, Grand Avenue
Jorge Ramos presents El Regalo del Tiempo 2pm @ Borders, Pico Rivera
Carol Muske-Dukes presents Channeling Mark Twain 5pm @ Skylight Books

Sunday
Gina Nahai signs Caspian Rain 2pm @ Dutton's
Janet Fitch, Tara Ison, Rachel Resnick and others read from the latest Black Clock 3pm @ MOCA, Downtown
Stephen Hunter presents The 47th Samurai 4:30pm @ Vroman's