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Get Your Lit On: The Trifecta Week in Bookish LA with a Side of Porn (After the Peeps, Before the Madness)
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Monday
Jonathan Lethem discusses You Don’t Love Me Yet 7pm @ Central Library (one!)
Susan Diamond signs What Goes Around 7pm @ Dutton’s
Tuesday
Joe Boyd presents White Bicycles: Making Music in the 60s 7pm @ Book Soup
Jonathan Lethem presents You Don’t Love Me Yet 7pm @ Vroman’s (two!)
Dani Shapiro signs Black & White 7pm @ Dutton’s
Etgar Keret reads The Nimrod Flipout 7:30pm @ Skirball Cultural Center
Wednesday
Natsuo Kirino presents Grotesque 7pm @ Book Soup
Charles Shields signs Mockingbird: A Potrait of Harper Lee 7pm @ Vroman’s
Denise Hamilton and contributors sign Los Angeles Noir 7pm @ Dutton’s (one!)
Jill Smolinksi presents The Next Thing on My List 7pm @ Borders, Torrance
Charles D’Ambrosio discusses The Dead Fish Museum 7pm @ Hammer Museum
Jonathan Lethem presents You Don’t Love Me Yet 7:30pm @ Skylight Books (trifecta!)
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Thursday
Denise Hamilton & contributors present Los Angeles Noir 6:30pm @ Egyptian Theatre (two!)
Anchee Min in conversation with Aimee Liu about The Last Empress 7pm @ Central Library
Dean Pitchford presents The Big One-Oh 7pm @ Book Soup
Mark Salzman discusses True Notbooks: A Writer’s Year at Juvenile Hall 7pm @ Marymount College
Basil Hoffman signs Acting and How to Be Good at It 7pm @ Borders, Hollywood
Ayn Carrillo-Gailey signs Pornology 7:30pm Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade (side of Porn...)
Faye, Jesse & Jonathan Kellerman sign their books 8pm @ Mystery & Imagination Bookstore (all three authors! with the same last name! in one location! trifecta!)
Friday
Joshua Ferris presents Then We Came to the End 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Denise Hamilton & contributors discuss Los Angeles Noir 7pm @ Vroman’s (trifecta!)
Chuck Rosenthalreads from The Heart of Mars 8pm @ Equator Books
Saturday
Peter S. Smith signs The Magistrates: Murder at the Rose Bowl 3pm @ Borders, Pasadena
Debbie Rocker presents Training for Life 5pm @ Book Soup
Maggie Nelson & Eileen Miles read their work 8pm @ Machine Project
Sunday
Bill Condon presents Dreamgirls: Portrait of the Film 4pm @ Book Soup
Nan Deane Cano discusses Acts of Light 4pm @ Vroman’s
Martin Schiesl & Mark Dodge present City of Promise: Race and Historical Change in Los Angeles 3pm @ Cal State LA, East L.A.
Peep in LA trifecta photos by victoriabernal via Flickr
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