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Dim Sum Bike Rides to Start the New Year | Photo by ubrayj02 via Flickr
Dim Sum Bike Rides to Start the New Year | Photo by ubrayj02 via Flickr Monday
The first day back to work & no bookish events to distract!
Tuesday Jaime Lowe presents and signs Digging for Dirt: the Life and Death of ODB 7pm @ Book Soup David Allen discusses and signs Making It All Work 7pm @ Vroman's Stephen J. Cannell signs On the Grind 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, Encino Nami Mun discusses & signs Miles from Nowhere 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove
Wednesday Denis Duttondiscusses The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution 7pm @ Central Library Patricia Weitz discusses and signs College Girl 7pm @ Vroman's
Thursday Chip Jacobs presents and signs Smogtown 7pm @ Book Soup Charles Johnson & Eric Sundquist discuss their work 7pm @ Hammer Museum Nancy Spiller discusses and signs Entertaining Disasters 7pm @ Vroman's Stan Lerner presents Criminal 7pm @ Metropolis Books Tom Molloy discusses & signs How to Break Bad News 7pm @ Borders, Westwood
Denis Dutton discusses and signs The Art Instinct 7pm @ Diesel, Brentwood Michael Kantor, Larry Maslon, Larry Wilmore & Richard Belzer present a tribute to Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America 7pm @ Temple Emanuel Jamey Hecht discusses Limousine, Midnight Blue: Fifty Frames from the Zapruder Film 7:30pm @ Village Books
Friday Peter Moruzzi discusses and signs Havana Before Castro 7pm @ Vroman's
Every two years, Desert X presents site-specific outdoor installations throughout the Coachella Valley. Two Los Angeles artists have new work on display.
