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Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
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Monday
No readings today.
Tuesday
Bruce Hulse presents and signs Sex, Love, and Fashion 7pm @ Book Soup
Michael S. Gazzaniga discusses & signs Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique 7pm @ Vroman's
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Wednesday
Ernest Borgnine signs Ernie: The Autobiography 7pm @ Vroman's
Karin Slaughter signs Fractured 7pm @ Borders, Torrance
Maria Belknap presents and signs Tales of a Beverly Hills Bitch 7pm @ Book Soup
Thursday
Jay Kopelman presents and signs From Baghdad to America 7pm @ Book Soup
Gene Harrison Starbuck signs Cutler's Gate 7:30pm @ Village Books
Friday
Jennifer Sugar & Jill C. Nelson present and sign John Holmes - A Life Measured in Inches 7pm @ Book Soup
Saturday
Stan Lee signs Election Daze 2pm @ Barnes & Noble, Pico/Westwood
Frank Feldinger presents and signs A Slight Epidemic 2pm @ Book Soup
Tom Waldman presents Not Much Left: The Fate of Liberalism in America 4pm @ Metropolis Books
Meghan Daum & Nina Revoyr read their work 5pm @ Hammer Museum
Jack Pendarvis presents and signs AWESOME 7pm @ Book Soup
Sunday
Mabel Katz, Eris Huemer, Alana Pratt, Michelle Armstrong and contributors read from Thank God I... 3pm @ Bodhi Tree Bookstore
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