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Get Your Lit On: The Junot Díaz Week in Bookish LA
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Monday
Junot Díaz presents The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 7pm @ Hammer Museum
Martha Sherrill presents Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain 7pm @ Vroman's
Gene Wilder signs The Woman Who Wouldn't 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove
Tuesday
Sue Miller discusses The Senator's Wife with Michelle Huneven 6pm @ Central Library
Micheline Aharonian Marcom presents Draining the Sea 7pm @ Dutton's
Mike Lupica presents The Big Field 7pm @ Vroman's
Wednesday
Rachel Cline presents and signs My Liar 7pm @ Book Soup
Judith Freeman and Denise Hamilton discuss Raymond Chandler's work 7pm @ Glendale Public Library
David Hadju discusses The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America 7pm @ Central Library
Thursday
Walter Mirisch presents I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History 7pm @ Book Soup
Rachel Cline presents My Liar 7pm @ Dutton's
John Landis & Giulia D'Angolo Vallan present John Landis 7pm @ Borders, Santa Monica
Susan Gregg Gilmore discusses and signs Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen 7pm @ Vroman's
Jacqueline Winespear presents An Incomplete Revenge 7:30pm @ Village Books
Garrison Keillor presents Pontoon 8pm @ Royce Hall, UCLA
Michael McClure discusses his work 8pm @ Skirball Cultural Center
Friday
Paul M. Levitt presents Come With Me to Babylon 7pm @ Dutton's
Corrie Greathouse presents Portraits: Invisible Ink on Parchment 7:30pm @ Beyond Baroque
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Saturday
No bookish events over the holiday.
Sunday
No bookish events over the holiday.
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