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Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA
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Monday
Chuck Palahniuk presents Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey 6:30pm @ Vroman's
Tony Cohan signs Mexican Days 7pm @ Dutton's
Donna Hogan (Anna Nicole's Sister) presents The Life and Death of Anna Nicole Smith 7pm @ Book Soup
Rick Riordan signs The Titan's Curse 7pm @ Borders, Torrance
Joan Didion discusses The Year of Magical Thinking 8pm @ Music Center
Tuesday
Tish Cohen & Rex Pickett present Town House 7pm @ Book Soup
Dick Lochte signs Croaked! 7pm @ Dutton's
Wednesday
Donda & Kanye West present Raising Kanye 6:30pm @ Borders, Westwood
Victorial Redel presents The Border of Truth 7pm @ Book Soup
Michael Chabon presents The Yiddish Policeman's Union 7pm @ Central Library
Rick Reilly discusses Sports Illustrated: Hate Mail from Cheerleaders 7pm @ Vroman's
Allison Gilbert, Mariel Hemingway & Hope Edelman sign Always Too Soon 7pm @ Dutton's
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Thursday
Michael Chabon presents The Yiddish Policeman's Union 7pm @ Book Soup
Susan Hubbard presents The Society of S 7pm @ Vroman's
Peggy Orenstein & Liza Mundy discuss Everything Conceivable 7pm @ Central Library
Leslie A. Morris signs How Ya Like Me Now 7pm @ Esowon Books
Chris Nichols presents The Leisure Architecture of Wayne McAllister 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Linda Palmer signs Kiss of Death 7pm @ Dutton's
Marina Nemat presents Prisoner of Tehran 7pm @ Borders, Westwood
Harry Medved discusses and signs Hollywood Escapes 7:30pm @ Village Books
Craig Ferguson presents Between the Bridge and the River 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove
Friday
Rutger Hauer presents All Those Moments 7pm @ Book Soup
Arthur Phillips discusses and signs Angelica 7pm @ Vroman's
Saturday
Karen Stabiner signs The Empty Nest 2pm @ Dutton's
Denise Hamilton & contributors present Los Angeles Noir 2pm @ Metropolis Books
Melba Levick & Marc Appleton present California Mediterranean 4:30pm @ Hennessy + Ingalls
Michael Webb presents & signs Modernist Paradise 5pm @ Book Soup
Andrea Portes presents Hick 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
Sunday
Lisa Roberts presents Antiques of the Future 2pm @ LACMA
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