Jack Pendarvis, author of the hilarious Your Body is Changing, which we reviewed last year, will be reading from his equally funny, Pendarvisly quirky new book Awesome tonight at 5pm @ Book Soup. Ever wonder what it would be like to be 50-feet-tall and be totally into robots and nearly lose the maybe-love of your life who is not a giant such as yourself? Pendarvis clearly has, and the result of such dreaming is Awesome:......

Jack Pendarvis, author of the just-released collection of short stories, Your Body is Changing is a funny guy. He was just in town on Friday for a reading at Skylight Books and posted about it on his blog yesterday under the heading, “An Open Letter to the People of California.” What did his post say? “You are nice!” Yup. That's it. So short prose really is his specialty... While Pendarvis, who resides in Atlanta,......

Monday Anne Fadiman presents At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays 7pm @ Vroman's Susan Kandel presents Christietown 7pm @ Book Soup Lori Andrews signs The Silent Assassin 7pm @ Dutton's Tuesday Todd McCarthy presents Fast Women: The Legendary Ladies of Racing 7pm @ Book Soup Lauren Kessler presents Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's 7pm @ Central Library Wednesday Armistead Maupin presents Michael Tolliver Lives 7pm @ Central Library......