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Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
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Monday
Bridget Kinsella Visiting Life: Women Doing Time on The Outside 7pm @ Book Soup
Trevor Corson discusses and signs The Zen of Fish 7pm @ Vroman's
Tuesday
Viken Berberian presents Das Kapital: A Novel of Love and Money Markets 7pm @ Book Soup
Bridget Kinsella presents Visiting Life: Women Doing Time on the Outside 12pm @ Vroman's
Joseph Marshall presents The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn 7pm @ Vroman's
Eric Lichtenfeld presents Action Speaks Louder: Violence, Spectacle, and the American Action Movie 7pm @ Borders, Westwood
Lisa See presents Peony in Love 7pm @ Borders, Torrance
Marianne Wiggins presents The Shadow Catcher 7pm @ Borders, Thousand Oaks
Min Jin Lee presents Free Food for Millionaires 7pm @ Dutton's
Wayne Federman presents Maravich 7:30pm Barnes & Noble, The Grove
Tina Brown presents The Diana Chronicles 7:30pm, Writer's Guild Theater
Wednesday
Lisa See presents Peony in Love 7pm @ Book Soup
Min Jin Lee presents Free Food for Millionaires 7pm @ Vroman's
Joseph Marshall presents The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn 7pm @ Central Library
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Thursday
Bob Shrum presents No Excuses 7pm @ Book Soup
Marianne Wiggins presents The Shadow Catcher 7pm @ Vroman's
Tracey Porter signs Billy Creekmore 7pm @ Dutton's
Farley Grainger presents Include Me Out 7pm @ Borders, West Hollywood
Paula Poundstone presents There's Nothing in This Book I Meant to Say 7pm @ Santa Monica Public Library
Elizabeth Rogers presents The Green Book 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade
John F. Haslett presents Voyage of the Manteno 7:30pm @ Village Books
Edie Bloom presents The Immaculate Complexion 7:30pm @ A Different Light Bookstore
Friday
Andrea Hollander Budy signs Woman in the Painting: Poems 7pm @ Dutton's
Saturday
Antoine Wilson presents The Interloper 2pm @ Metropolis Books
Lisa See signs Peony In Love 2pm @ Dutton's
Tom Hayden presents Ending the War in Iraq 5pm @ Vroman's
Sunday
A.W. Hill presents The Last Days of Madame Rey 3pm @ Borders, Pasadena
Timothy Green, Eric Steinger & Jack Cooper read their poetry 5pm @ Beyond Baroque
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