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Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
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Monday
Rob Kutner discusses & signs Apocalypse How 7pm @ Vroman's
Tuesday
Barbara Walters presents Audition: A Memoir 7pm @ Writer's Guild Theatre
Nina RevoyrdiscussesThe Age of Dreaming with Janet Fitch 7pm @ Vroman's
Rob Kutner presents Apocalypse How 7pm @ Book Soup
Pico Iyer discusses The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama 7pm @ Central Library
Jim Lynch presents The Highest Tide 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade
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Wednesday
Carl Hiaasen discusses The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport 7pm @ Central Library
Barbara Walters signs Audition: A Memoir 7pm @ Vroman's
Barry M. Goldwater Jr. signs Pure Goldwater 7pm @ Glendora Public Library
Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhartpresents and sign Fixing Failed States 7pm @ Book Soup
Laurie Viera Rigler signs Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict 7pm @ Borders, West Hollywood
Donna Foote presents Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America 7pm @ Borders, El Segundo
Thursday
Michael Ondaatje discusses Divisidero 7pm @ Hammer Museum
Tom Reynolds, Phil Lamar and Chris Parnell presents and signs Touch Me I'm Sick 7pm @ Book Soup
Rick Perlstein presents and signs Nixonland 7pm @ Pi Restaurant
Kerry Reichs signs The Best Day of Someone Else's Life 7pm @ Borders, Westwood
Mario Lopez signs Mario Lopez Fitness Workout 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove
James Frey presents and signs Bright Shiny Morning 7:30pm @ Whisky a Go Go
Josh Kilmer-Purcell presents and signs Candy Everybody Wants 7:30pm @ Whisky a Go Go
Andrew Foster Altschul presents and signs Lady Lazarus 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Tom Zimmerman presents Paradise Promoted: The Booster Campaign that Created Los Angeles 7:30pm @ Village Books
Friday
Don Felder presents and signs Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles 7pm @ Book Soup
Willy Vlautin discusses & signs Northline 7pm @ Vroman's
Barry M. Goldwater Jr. discusses Pure Goldwater 7pm @ Moorpark City Library
Saturday
Steve Garvey presents My Bat Boy Days noon @ Borders, Northridge
William Shatner presents and Up Till Now 2pm @ Book Soup
Jim Lynch presents The Highest Tide 3pm @ Santa Monica College Pavilion
Tom Sturges presents and signs Parking Lot Rules 5pm @ Book Soup
Sunday
Rick Ehrlich presents Namibia 3pm @ Diesel
David Benioff presents and signs City of Thieves 4pm @ Book Soup
Janet Sarbanes & Marisa Silver discuss their work 6pm @ Hammer Museum
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