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It's a banner day for LA bookworms. There are lots of readings scheduled all over town: • 12:30 pm : Carrie Karasyov and Jill Kargman
Thursday, April 14 at 12:30 Dutton's Beverly Hills holds a lunchtime event for Carrie Karasyov and Jill Kargman who will sign their latest book about Manhattan socialite-Cinderellas "Wolves in Chic Clothing."
• 7:00 pm : Tony Kienitz
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Thursday, April 14, 2005 7:00 PM at Vroman's Pasadena Tony Kienitz discusses and signs "The Year I Ate My Yard."
• 7:00 pm : Heather Howard
Heather Howard has come up with the best book title about Hollywood, ever. Stop by Book Soup on Sunset tonight to hear the ex-assistant read from her novel "Chore Whore: Adventures of a Celebrity Personal Assistant," about schlepping for the stars.
• 7:00 pm : Larry Mantle
Thursday, April 14 at 7 pm Dutton's Brentwood Larry Mantle signs "This Is Airtalk," a compilation of interviews from his KPCC radio show "AirTalk."
• 7:00 pm : Ann Rowe Seaman
Thursday, April 14 at 7 pm Dutton's Beverly Hills Ann Rowe Seaman signs "America’s Most Hated Woman: The Life and Gruesome Death of Madalyn Murray O’Hair."
• 7:30 pm : Gene Wilder converses with Leonard Nimoy.
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We really like the idea of Willy Wonka dishing with Mr. Spock. Writers Bloc presents the dialogue, motivated, no doubt, by Wilder's new book "Kiss Me Like A Stranger," but the event is already sold out. We are listing it anyway in hopes that someone with tickets will write in and tell us about it in the coming days.
• 8:00 pm Dylan Moran in "Monster"
Dylan Moran, star of "Shaun of the Dead" takes his one-man show "Monster" to UCLA at the Macgowan Little Theater this week. Moran's been called the “Oscar Wilde of stand-up."
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