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Arts and Entertainment

Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA

By  Callie Miller
Published Jun 2, 2008 11:00 PM
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Tuesday
Andre Dubus III presents The Garden of Last Days 7pm @ Central Library
Bob Morris presents and signs Assisted Loving 7pm @ Book Soup
Alan Furst discusses and signs The Spies of Warsaw 7pm @ Vroman's

Wednesday
Andrea Askowitz presents and signs My Miserable Lonely Lesbian Pregnancy @ Book Soup
DeLauné Michel signs The Safety of Secrets 7pm @ Borders, Westwood
Donna Foote presents Relentless Pursuit:A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America 7pm @ Central Library
Lee Child signs Nothing to Lose 7pm @ Borders, Westwood
Mark Bowden presents and signs The Best Game Ever 7pm @ Beverly Hills Public Library
David Benioff discusses and signs City of Thieves 7pm @ Vroman's
Award-winning UCLA student poets read their work 7pm @ Hammer Museum
Jana Kohl signs A Rare Breed of Love 7:30PM @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove

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Thursday
Andrei Cherny presents and signs The Candy Bombers 7pm @ Book Soup
Delaune DeLauné Michel discusses and signs The Safety of Secrets 7pm @ Vroman's

Friday
Don Winslow presents and signs The Dawn Patrol 7pm @ Book Soup
Dorothy Garcia & Tom Harding present (Art Aids Art) Bead by Bead 7pm @ Vroman's
Justice Arthur Gilbert discusses and signs Under Submission 7:30pm @ Village Books

Saturday
Gary Seigel presents and signs The Mouth Trap 2pm @ Book Soup
Robert Levinson discusses and signs In the Key of Death 4pm @ Vroman's
Joe Carducci presents and signs Enter Naomi 7pm @ Book Soup
John Darnielle presents Master of Reality (33 1/3 Series) 7:30pm @ Skylight Books

Sunday
Barry Siegel presents and signs Claim of Privilege noon @ Book Soup
Sarah Hall & Jacob Polley read their work 3pm @ Hammer Museum
Morley Winograd & Mike Hais present & sign Millennial Makeover 4pm @ Vroman's

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