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Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
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Monday
Jose Canseco signs Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball 7pm @ Book Soup
Kate Mosse presents Sepulchre 7pm @ Vroman's
Jeffrey Sachs discusses Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet 7pm @ Central Library
Tuesday
Dave Rensin presents All for a Few Perfect Waves 7pm @ Book Soup
Robert Levinson presents In the Key of Death 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Robert Schimmel presents Cancer on Five Dollars a Day 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove
Wednesday
W. Bruce Cameron presents 8 Simple Rules for Marrying My Daughter 7pm @ Book Soup
Karen Joy Fowler presents Wit's End 7pm @ Vroman's
Red Hen Press poetry celebration with Chalres Hood, Terry Wolverton, Sarah Bein and others 7pm @ Central Library
Thursday
Julie Andrews signs Home 7pm @ Borders, Westwood
Eric Lichtblau presents Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice 7pm @ Borders, Hollywood
Wendy Merrill presents Falling Into Manholes 7pm @ Book Soup
Jo Lauria presents Craft in America 7pm @ Vroman's
Stan Chambers presents News at Ten 7:30pm @ Village Books
Ted Elrick, Susan Cooper & Amy Hall present Los Angeles River & Theatres in Los Angeles 7:30pm @ Metropolis Books
Friday
Tami Anderson presents "Not Knowing How" as part of the New Short Fiection Series 7:30pm @ Beverly Hills Library
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Saturday
Jordan Wallens presents Gridchronic 4pm @ Vroman's
Sophie Dahl presents Playing With the Grown-Ups 7pm @ Book Soup
Ara Shirinyan, Joseph Thomas and Dan Machlin read their work 7:30pm @ Beyond Baroque
Sunday
David Rensin presents All for a Few Perfect Waves 3pm @ Diesel, A Bookstore
Joanna Hershon presents The German Bride 5pm @ Book Soup
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