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Get Your Lit On: Turkey Week in Bookish LA
Monday
William Shatner presents Star Trek: The Academy - Collision Course 7pm @ Book Soup
Janet Fitch presents Paint it Black 7pm @ Vroman's
Robin Maxwell presents Mademoiselle Boleyn 7pm @ Dutton's
Memorial Reading for Mutanabbi Street with Chris Abani, Beau Beausoleil, Laila Lalami, Suzanne Lummis, Majid Naficy, Marisela Norte, Sholeh Wolpe & Terry Wolverton 7pm @ Centraly Library
Tuesday
Judith Freeman presents The Long Embrace 7pm @ Dutton's
Anthony Hernandez signs Waiting, Sitting, Fishing and Some Automobiles 7pm @ Dutton's
Sunday
Joseph Freeman presents The Road to Hell 4:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, Pico-Westwood
The Loudest Voice with authors Trinie Dalton, Katherine Karlin & Jeff Solomon 7pm @ Mountain Bar
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