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Brian Yaeger signs Red White & Brew 7:30pm @ Village Books

First Dutton's closed, then Beyond Baroque was in trouble, but then wasn't, but might be again soon. It was only last December when Village Books was having a "we might have to go out of business sale" that was sucessful enough they didn't have to close. For a town that is closing its beloved bookstores and hacking its own Book Review section to pieces, we were delighted to learn that Skylight Books is...that's right...expanding!

Daniel A. Helminiak presents and signs What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality 7pm @ Book Soup

Janet Evanovich signs Fearless Fourteen 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade

Salman Rushdie discusses The Enchantress of Florence with Carrie Fisher 7:30pm @ Writers Guilde Theater

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs presents Paper Pavillion 8:30pm @ Village Books

John Richardson signs A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years 7pm @ LACMA

As we lamented in February, Beyond Baroque was in danger of losing its lease and Venice was in danger of losing one of the most unique places for poets to gather and perform their work. Mere hours before their lease was to expire, L.A. City Council voted to extend the lease for 25 more years - at only $1 a year!

Family, the great little bookstore on Fairfax is celebrating its one-year anniversary with a huge art show that opens tonight at 8pm and you're invited.

Sad, sad news in bookish LA: Dutton's Brentwood is closing its doors. After a long battle with developers and uncertainty, which we covered last year, Doug Dutton has made the difficult decision to close.

One of L.A.'s most unique and important centers for poetry, literature, and art, the non-profit center Beyond Baroque, may be in danger of losing its lease. According to an email sent out by the group's Board of Trustees, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo would like to begin the auction process for the building, offering it up for other non-profits to bid on. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl had promised to extend Beyond Baroque's lease for another 25 years, but this new move by Delgadillo threatens to ruin the whole deal for the literary non-profit. As the website states, this "uncertainty is threatening grants, programming and our entire future."

Cindy Pierce and Edie Thys Morgan presents Finding the Doorbell 7pm @ Book Soup

LA readings and book signings around town for January 28th - Februar 3rd including Judith Freeman, Ron Jeremy, Tamara Jenkins, Mary McNamara, Sam Jones and Tom Dolby.

Monday Mike Carey presents The Devil You Know 7pm @ Book Soup Tuesday Doug Stumpf presents Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy 7pm @ Book Soup Joy Horowitz presents Parts per Million: The Poisoning of Beverly Hills High School 7pm @ Central Library Michael Tucker signs Living a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine and Love in Italy 7pm @ Dutton's Jerry Stahl presents Love Without 7pm @ Borders, Long Beach Thomas...

Trevor Corson discusses and signs The Zen of Fish 7pm @ Vroman's

Chris Abani & Al Young read their work 7:30pm @ Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater

Dr. Karen Halligan discusses What Every Pet Owner Should Know 7pm @ Vroman’s

Alix Ohlin on Why Mysteries Matter: Detectives, Literature, and Life 7pm @ Central Library

Monday Barbara Hambly presents Patriot Hearts: A Novel of Founding Mothers 7pm @ Vroman’s Tess Gallagher reads from Dear Ghosts 7:30pm @ Geffen Playhouse Tuesday George Hass presents Forcing Nature: Trees in Los Angeles 7pm @ Book Soup Margaret MacMillan presents Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World 7pm @ Central Library T Cooper & Chris Abani present their latest books 7:30pm @ Skylight Books Caille Millner presents The Golden Road: Notes...

WEDNESDAY

Bookblogger Laila Lalami of MoorishGirl will be reading from her new book, tonight at 7:30 pm at Beyond Baroque in Venice. Lalami, although currently a SoCal expat, lived in Los Angeles for many years. She wrote this on her blog about coming back for a Duttons' reading yesterday:

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• At Spaceland, Palo Alto will be performing with Hayes and Aeon Spoke. Doors open at 9 PM.

Tonight at Beyond Baroque, join in on Re-Wall, an interactive stencil show hosted by Renee Reynolds, Tyler Williams and Michael Lynch. Along with stenciling the walls, there will be film screenings and live performances. Admission is $5 if you show empty-handed; free if you come bearing supplies, like stencils, water-based paint, cardboard, cutting utensils, mini-rollers or any other stencil-related materials. Festivities begin at 7:30 PM.

At 7:30 PM, Beyond Baroque is hosting a third anniversary reading for POOL Magazine, hosted by poets/editors Judith Taylor and Patty Seyburn with readings from the new issue by Stephanie Brown, Rick Bursky, Gina Lain, Suzanne Karpilovsky, Louise Mathias, Jim Natal, Alicia Partnoy and Charles Webb. Wine and cheese will also be served.