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BOOKS Vroman’s welcomes LA Times columnist Steve Lopez tonight at 7 pm who’ll discuss and sign his latest book Dreams & Schemes. This is a collection of his “most controversial, irreverent and heart-warming columns.” He writes about the city through its most interesting people and poking around in places that most reporters don’t go these days. Free.
READING
The Hammer Museum’s New American Writing series welcomes authors Jennifer L. Knox & Sarah Manguso, who’ll read and discuss their work. Knox authored poetry collections The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, A Gringo Like Me and Drunk by Noon. Manguso’s memoir The Two Kinds of Decay follows her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease. 7 pm. Free.
READING Maxine Hong Kingston appears at the The Library’s ALOUD Series tonight at 7 pm. The award-winning author of The Woman Warrior will be in conversation with journalist Andrew Lam discussing her memoir I Love a Broad Margin to My Life. At the Mark Taper Auditorium-Central Library. This event is full; stand-by only. Free.
Every two years, Desert X presents site-specific outdoor installations throughout the Coachella Valley. Two Los Angeles artists have new work on display.
