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Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
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Monday
Elizabeth Gilbert discusses and signs Eat Pray Love 7pm @ Vroman's
Sasha Abramsky presents American Furies 7pm @ Book Soup
Bruce Dern signs Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have 7pm @ Dutton's
Tuesday
Michael Ondaatje presents Divisadero 7pm @ Central Library
James St. James presents Freak Show 7pm @ Book Soup
Ann Brashares discusses and signs The Last Summer (of You and Me) 7pm @ Vroman's
Robert Ellis presents City of Fire 7pm @ Borders, Long Beach
Sarah Susanka signs The Not So Big Life 7pm @ Dutton's
Wednesday
Katherine Taylor presents Rules for Saying Goodbye 7pm @ Book Soup
Khaled Hosseini signs A Thousand Splendid Suns 7pm @ Dutton's
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Thursday
Kym Douglas presents The Black Book of Hollywood Beauty Secrets 6:30pm Encino-Tarzana Library
Khaled Hosseini discusses and signs A Thousand Splendid Suns 7pm @ Vroman's
Janve Velez-Mitchell presents Secrets Can Be Murder 7pm @ Book Soup
Rick Reilly presents Hate Mail from Cheerleaders 7pm @ Borders, Westwood
Erika Schikel signs You’re Not the Boss of Me 7:30pm @ Village Books
Friday
Emily Mitchell signs The Last Summer of the World 7pm @ Dutton's
John Burdett discusses and signs Bangkok Haunts 7pm @ Vroman's
Laura Dietz presents In the Tenth House 7pm @ Book Soup
Joe Matt presents Spent 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Nick Santora presents Slip & Fall 7:30pm @ Borders, Long Beach
Saturday
Pia Z. Ehrhardt and Jim Ruland present their new books 2pm @ Dutton's
Shant Kenderian presents 1001 Nights in Iraq 3pm @ Borders, Glendale
J.B.B. Winner presents The Strand Prophecy 3pm @ Borders, Rancho Cucamonga
Contributing writers present What Wildness Is This? 4pm @ Vroman's
Crystal Zevon presents I'll Sleep When I'm Dead 7pm @ Book Soup
Sunday
Kyle Roderick presents Organic Bathing 3pm @ Diesel Malibu
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