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Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
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Historic Heights at Castle Green in Pasadena | Photo by Coyote 2012 via Flickr
Monday
Diane Ackerman discusses The Zookeeper's Wife 7pm @ Central Library
Susan Lankford presents Maggots in My Sweet Potatoes: Women Doing Time 7pm @ Book Soup
Tuesday
Hugh Hefner and Steven Watts sign Mr. Playboy 7pm @ Book Soup
Ian Buruma discusses The China Lover 7pm @ Central Library
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Wednesday
Alan Cheuse presents To Catch the Lightning 7pm @ Book Soup
Ingrid Newkirk presents One Can Make a Difference: How Simple Actions Can Change the World 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Madeline Albright presents Memo to the President 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove
Thursday
George Hamilton signs Don't Mind If I Do 7pm @ Vroman's
Mike Sager presents Wounded Warriors 7pm @ Book Soup
Marilynne Robinson discusses Home: A Novel with Michael Silverblatt 7pm @ Central Library
Amy Sedaris presents I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove
Friday
Wafaa Bilal presents Shoot an Iraqi 7pm @ Book Soup
Jonathan Carroll discusses and signs The Ghost in Love 7pm @ Vroman's
David Francis presents Stray Dog Winter 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Saturday
Lisa See presents Peony in Love 2pm @ Book Soup
Yxta Maya Murray presents King's Gold 2pm @ Book Soup
David Fuller presents Sweetsmoke 2pm @ Book Soup
Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum reads her work 5pm @ Hammer Museum
Sunday
Eugene and Mary Yelchin present Ghost Files 2pm @ Book Soup
Victor Villasenor discusses and signs Crazy Loco Love 4pm @ Vroman's
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