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Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
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Monday
Dave Isay, from StoryCorps, presents Listening Is an Act of Love 7pm @ Vroman's
Johan Lehrer presents Proust Was a Neuroscientist 7pm @ Dutton's
Nigella Lawson presents The Domestic Goddess 7pm Borders, Torrance
Tom Brokaw presents Boom! Voices of the Sixties 7:30pm @ Temple Emanuel
Tuesday
Clive Barker presents Mister B. Gone 7pm @ Vroman's
Gregory Rodriguez presents Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans & Vagabonds 7pm @ Central Library
Susanne Daniels presents Season Finale 7pm @ Borders, Westwood
Ricardo Quinones presents Dualisms Era 7pm @ Dutton's
Barbra Horowitz presents Closet Control 7:30pm @ Borders, The Grove
Lydia Lunch & Arthur Nersesian read their work 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Wednesday
Ha Jin discusses A Free Life 7pm @ Central Library
Lydia Lunch & Arthur Nersesian read their work 7pm @ Hammer Museum
Nadine Haobsh presents Beauty Confidential 7pm @ Book Soup
Ashley Gilbertson presents Whisky Tango Foxtrot 7pm @ Vroman's
Michelin Guide Staff present Michelin Red Guide Los Angeles 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove
Stanely Tookie Williams tribute Blue Rage, Black Redemption 7:30pm @ Book Soup
Mary Otis reads from Yes, Yes Cherries for an 826LA charity event 8pm @ Largo
Norman Klein presents The Imaginary 20th Century 8:30pm @ REDCAT/Disney Concert Hall
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Thursday
Amanda Fortini presents An Uncertain Inheritance 7pm @ Book Soup
Poet Galway Kinnell reads his work 7pm @ Central Library
Poet Terrance Hayes reads from Wind in the Box 7pm @ Hammer Museum
Robin Maxwell presents Mademoiselle Boleyn 7pm @ Borders, Century City
Patricia Rieff Anawalt presents The Worldwide History of Dress 7pm @ Dutton's
Gregory Rodriguez presents Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans & Vagabonds 7pm @ Borders, Del Amo
John Truby presents Anatomy of Story 7:30pm @ University of Judaism
Amy Wallace presents The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Hugh Hefner presents Playboy Cover-to-Cover 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove
Gabe Rotter presents Duck Duck Wally 7:30pm @ Village Books
Friday
Steven Noss with special guest models presents Hair Wars 7pm @ Book Soup
Catherine Ledner presents Animal House 7pm @ Vroman's
Ellen Litman presents The Last Chicken in America 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Saturday
Sean Harvey presents One Moment Changes Everything 2pm @ Borders, Glendale
Lolette Kuby presents Out of Cleveland 2pm @ Dutton's
James Bell presents Try Dying 2pm @ Borders, Calabasas
Louis Dunlap presents Undoing the Silence 3pm @ Metropolis Books
Frank Trapper presents Red Carpet 5pm @ Book Soup
Diana Walker presents The Bigger Picture 5pm @ Book Soup
Tebor Healey and Felice Picano present their work 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Sunday
Ilana Simons presents A Life of One's Own 2pm @ Dutton's
Emerging writers of East Los Angeles College read their work 3pm @ Vroman's
Photographer Cheryl Dunn presents Some Kinda Vacation 6pm @ Family LA
Steve Erickson presents Zeroville 6pm @ Hammer Museum
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