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Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA

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Monday
The Call of the Wild by Jack London film review & book discussion 6:30pm @ Vroman's
Diahann Carroll presents The Legs Are the Last to Go 7pm @ Book Soup
Tuesday
Michael Connelly presents The Brass Verdict 7pm @ Vroman's
Christopher Paolini presents Brisingr 7pm @ Beckman Auditorium, Caltech
Orson Bean signs M@il for Mikey 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade
Deborah Copaken Kogan presents Between Here and April 7pm @ Book Soup
Richard Belzer signs I Am Not a Cop 7pm @ Borders, Westwood
Frank Feldinger signs A Slight Epidemic 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove
Wednesday
Mia Kirshner presents I Live Here 7pm @ Book Soup
Isaac Mizrahi discusses and signs How to Have Style 7pm @ Vroman's
Howard Rosenberg & Charles S. Feldman present No Time to Think: The Menace of Media Speed and the 24-Hour News Cycle 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Sarah Vowell signs Wordy Shipmates 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove
Mark Oliver Everett signs Things the Grandchildren Should Know 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, Encino
Thursday
Carl Capotorto presents Twisted Head 7pm @ Book Soup
Dr. Gary Small discusses and signs iBrain 7pm @ Vroman's
Sarah Vowell discusses and signs The Wordy Shipmates 7pm @ All Saint's Church
Joan Horvath discusses and signs What Scientists Actually Do 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, Del Amo
Gary Poole discusses and signs Galloping Ghost 7:30pm @ Village Books
Friday
RA & Geno Salvatore present The Stowaway 6pm @ Vroman's
Robert Knight presents Rock Gods 7pm @ Book Soup
Mark Oliver Everett presents Things the Grandchildren Should Know 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Saturday
David Friedman presents My Life in the Movies 2pm @ Book Soup
Milton Katselas presents Acting Class: Take a Seat 5pm @ Skylight Books
Shalom Auslander presents Foreskin's Lament 5pm @ Book Soup
Sunday
Omarosa presents The Bitch Switch 5pm @ Book Soup
Rolling Darkness Review 7pm @ Skylight Books
Jennie Shortridge discusses Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe 5pm @ Vroman's