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Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA

Monday
Anne Fadiman presents At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays 7pm @ Vroman's
Susan Kandel presents Christietown 7pm @ Book Soup
Lori Andrews signs The Silent Assassin 7pm @ Dutton's
Tuesday
Todd McCarthy presents Fast Women: The Legendary Ladies of Racing 7pm @ Book Soup
Lauren Kessler presents Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's 7pm @ Central Library
Wednesday
Armistead Maupin presents Michael Tolliver Lives 7pm @ Central Library
Megan Crane presents Frenemies 7pm @ Book Soup
Antony Romber presents In Defense of Our America 7pm @ Vroman's
Karen Mack & Jennifer Kaufman present Literacy and Longing in L.A. 7pm @ Mission Viejo Library
Thursday
Antoine Wilson presents The Interloper 7pm @ Book Soup
Mark Haskell Smith presents Salty 7pm @ Borders, Westwood
Heather McElhatton presents Pretty Little Mistakes 7pm @ Vroman's
William Dunlap signs Dunlap 7pm @ Dutton's
Jule Selbo presents Gardner's Guide to Screenplay 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, Glendale
Anthony Romero presents In Defense of Our America 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, Santa Monica
Armistead Maupin presents Michael Tolliver Lives 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Friday
Shauna Seliy signs When We Get There 7pm @ Dutton's
Megan Crane presents Frenemies 7pm @ Vroman's
David Steinberg presents The Book of David 7:30pm @ Writer's Guild Theater
Trevor Corson presents The Zen of Fish 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, Santa Monica
Jack Pendarvis presents Your Body is Changing 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Saturday
Denise Hamilton and contributors present Los Angeles Noir 2pm @ Book'em Mysteries
Aaron L. Day presents The Heritage of African-Americans in Long Beach Over 100 Years 2pm @ Borders, Long Beach
Anita Amirrezvani presents The Blood of Flowers 2:30pm @ Pacific-Asia Museum
William Stadiem and Mara Gibbs present Everybody Eats There 5pm @ Book Soup
Mike Jones presents I Had to Say Something: The Art of Ted Haggard's Fall 7pm @ Book Soup
Megan Crane presents Frenemies 7pm @ Borders, Thousand Oaks
Sunday
Linda LeBlanc presents Beyond the Summit 2pm @ Pacific Asia Museum
Mary Otis, David O'Shea and Laura Diamond read their new work 6pm @ Hotel Cafe
Tom Hayden presents Ending the War in Iraq 7pm @ Book Soup
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