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Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
Monday
J.A. Jance signs Hand of Evil 7pm @ Borders, Torrance
Tuesday
Andy Summers of The Police signs I'll Be Watching You: Inside the Police 1980 - 1983 6pm @ Amoeba Music
Robert Gottlieb presents Reinventing Los Angeles 7pm @ Book Soup
J.A. Jance presents Hand of Evil 7pm @ Vroman's
Leslie Oren signs Fine, I'll Go Online! 7pm @ Borders, Hollywood
Wednesday
Kevin Bales presents Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves 7pm @ Central Library
Liza Palmer discusses and signs Seeing Me Naked 7pm @ Vroman's
Rachel Louise Snyder presents Fugitive Denim 7pm @ Book Soup
Thursday
Alice Fulton presents Cascade Experiment 7pm @ Hammer Museum
Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack sign Version of the Truth 7pm @ Dutton's
Liza Palmer presents Seeing Me Naked 7pm @ Book Soup
Angela Cartwright signs Mixed Emulsions 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove William Luvaas presents A Working Man's Apocrypha 7pm @ Metropolis Books
Dan Koeppel presents Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World 7pm @ Vroman's
Judith Freeman presents The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved 7pm @ Central Library
Friday
Leslie Oren discusses and signs Fine, I'll Go Online! 7pm @ Vroman's
Saturday
Roy Freirich presents Winged Creatures 3:30pm @ Dutton's
Jennifer Kaufman & Karen Mack present A Version of the Truth 4pm @ Vroman's
Diablo Cody presents Juno 5pm @ Book Soup
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Sunday
Jami Attenberg presents The Kept Man 4pm @ Book Soup
Will Alexander, Wanda Coleman, Clayton Eshelman & several other poets read for the Poetry Benefit Honoring Will Alexander 5pm @ Skylight Books
Jami Attenberg, Veronica Gonzalez, Doug Cordell and Sam Quinones read at Vermin on the Mount 8pm @ Mountain Bar
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