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Arts and Entertainment

Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA

By  Callie Miller
Published Sep 23, 2007 11:00 PM
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Monday
Bjorn Lomborg presents Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming 7pm @ Central Library
Terry Pratchett presents Making Money 7pm @ Borders, Torrance
Randall Robinson presents An Unbroken Agony 7pm @ EsoWon Books

Tuesday
Carol Muske-Dukes presents Channeling Mark Twain 7pm @ Vroman's
Cathy Malkasian presents Percy Gloom 7pm @ Book Soup
Gilbert Hernandez presents Chance in Hell 7pm @ Book Soup
Leslie Garis signs House of Happy Endings 7pm @ Dutton's
Karrine Steffans presents The Vixen Diaries 7pm @ EsoWon Books
Steve Almond presents Not That You Asked: Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Daniel Pinchbeck presents 2012 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade

Wednesday
Carol Muske-Dukes signs Channeling Mark Twain 7pm @ Dutton's
Karrine Steffans presents The Vixen Diaries 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove

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Thursday
Gail Tsukiyama presents The Street of a Thousand Blooms 7pm @ Vroman's
Norman Davies presents No Simple Victory: Europe at War 1939-1945 7pm @ Central Library
Goodloe Byron presents The Abstract 7pm @ Book Soup
John W. Dean presents Broken Government 7pm @ All Saint's Church
David Levithan & Rachel Cohn present Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List 7pm @ Borders, Long Beach
Seth Hettena signs Feasting on the Spoils 7pm @ Dutton's
Catherine Gudis presents Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape 7:30pm @ Pasadena Museum of History

Friday
Nathan Winograd & The Barbi Twins present Redemption 7pm @ Book Soup
David Levithan & Rachel Cohn present Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List 7pm @ Vroman's
Rita Lowenthal signs One-Way Ticket 7pm @ Dutton's
Sadiki Bakari presents Butt Naked & Uncensored 7pm @ EsoWon Books

Saturday
Joshua Hale Fialkov presents The Future of Graphic Literature 2pm Central Library
George Saunders presents The Braindead Megaphone 3pm @ Beverly Hills Public Library Auditorium
Elizabeth McKenzie presents MacGregor Tells the World 5pm @ Book Soup
Catherine Ledner presents Animal House 5pm @ Book Soup

Sunday
West Hollywood Book Fair 10am - 6pm @ West Hollywood Park
Kenneth C. Burt presents The Search for a Civic Voice: California Latino Politics 3pm @ Borders, Pico Rivera
Michael Gates presents How Starbucks Saved My Life 4pm @ Vroman's
Joshua Abarbanel & Jeff Swimmer sign The Field Guide to Household Bugs 2pm @ Dutton's
Carol Davis presents Into the Arms of Pushkin 3pm @ Diesel, A Bookstore
Masaharu Morimoto presents Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking 4pm @ Skirball Cultural Center
Felicia Luna Lemus & Eileen Myles read their work 6pm @ Hammer Museum

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