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Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
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Ferris Wheel Silhouette in Santa Monica| Photo by *clarity* via Flickr
Monday
Tori Spelling signs sTORI Telling 7pm @ Book Soup
Tuesday
Jonathan Rosen presents The Life of the Skies 7pm @ Central Library
Alison Larkin signs The English American 7pm @ Borders, Westwood
Wendy Johnson presents Gardening at the Dragon's Gate 7pm @ Book Soup
Nat Read discusses Don Benito Wilson: From Mountain Man to Mayor 7pm @ Vroman's
Jess Ventura signs Don't Start the Revolution Without Me! 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade
A.M. Homes presents The Mistress' Daughter: A Memoir 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
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Wednesday
Cesar Millan signs Be the Pack Leader 7pm @ Borders, Torrance
Haifa Zangana discusses her work with Molly Bingham 7pm @ Hammer Museum
Joseph Wambaugh presents Hollywood Crows 7pm @ Vroman's
Scott Sigler presents Infected 7pm @ Book Soup
Joanna Scott presents Liberation: A Novel 7:30pm @ Otis College of Art & Design
Thursday
Susan Faludi discusses her work with Ani DiFranco 7pm @ Hammer Museum
Isabel Allende presents The Sum of Our Days 7pm @ Vroman's
Melanie Abrams presents Playing 7pm @ Book Soup
Nina Revoyr presents The Age of Dreaming 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Friday
Pattie Boyd signs Wonderful Tonight 7pm @ Book Soup
Jeff Gordinier discusses and signs X Saves the World 7pm @ Vroman's
Julie Lequin presents The Ice Skating Tree Opera 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
J. Michael Walker signs All the Saints of the City of Angels 7:30pm @ Village Books
Saturday
Jesse Ventura presents and signs Don't Start the Revolution Without Me! 2pm @ Book Soup
Rebecca Woolf presents and signs Rockabye: From Wild To Child 5pm @ Book Soup
Sunday
Katie Arnoldi presents The Wentworths 3pm @ Diesel
Poets at Work: A Reading 5pm @ Skylight Books
Rob Roberge, Karen Harryman, Ana Thorne & Robert M. Montoya read as part of the Rhapsodomancy Reading Series 7:30pm @ The Good Luck Bar
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