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Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
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Monday
Porochista Khakpour presents Sons and Other Flammable Objects 7pm @ Dutton's
Kenneth Turan presents Never Coming to a Theater Near You 7pm @ Studio City Branch Library
Tuesday
Susan Faludi presents The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America 7pm @ Central Library
Max Brooks presents World War Z 7pm @ Book Soup
Walter Mosley presents Blonde Faith 7:30pm @ Skirball Cultural Center
President Vicente Fox discusses and signs Revolution of Hope 8pm @ Caltech, Beckman Auditorium
Wednesday
Dana Thomas presents Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster 7pm @ Book Soup
Tom Batiuk discusses and signs Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe 7pm @ Vroman's
Ron Marasco signs Notes to an Actor 7pm @ Dutton's
Nathan Gonzalez presents Engaging Iran 7pm @ Borders, Sherman Oaks
Laurie David presents The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming 7pm @ Borders, Century City
David Barsamian presents Targeting Iran 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
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Thursday
Amy Hempel presents The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel 7pm @ Hammer Museum
Mike Sager presents Revenge of the Donut Boys 7pm @ Book Soup
Garry Wills discusses and signs Head and Heart 7pm @ All Saints Church
Dr. Jerry M. Ruhlpresents Living Your Unlived Life 7pm @ Vroman's
Melinda Henneberger signs If They Only Listened To Us 7pm @ Dutton's
Nathan Gonzalez presents Engaging Iran 7pm @ Borders, Pasadena
The Hermans perform and present The Hermans: Stalking America 7:30pm @ Book Soup
Janette Rainwater presents 2060: A Love Story in a Utopian Future 7:30pm @ Village Books
Friday
Lucy Corin and Aimee Bender present The Entire Predicament 7pm @ Book Soup
Alan Cheuse presents The Fires 7pm @ Vroman's
Tod Goldberg, Diane Gurman & Monica Wali present the Fall 2007 issue of Santa Monica Review 7pm @ Dutton's
Dr. Jerry M. Ruhl presents Living Your Unlived Life 7:30pm @ Bodhi Tree Bookstore
Saturday
Art Brewer & C.R. Stecyk III present Bunker Spreckles: Surfing's Divine Prince of Decadence 3pm @ Taschen, Beverly Hills
Sunday
Michael Patris and Rick Thomas present Mount Lowe Railway and South Pasadena 3pm @ Vroman's
Fernando D. Castro, Bernardo Solano, & Caridad Svich read their work 5pm @ Skylight Books
Veronica Gonzalez presents Twin Time: Or, How Death Befell Me 6pm @ Hammer Museum
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