Orpheum's Backside | Photo by muehpro via Flickr Monday Naomi Wolf discusses Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries 7pm @ Central Library Adam Tokunaga presents and signs Slow Sex Secrets 7pm @ Book Soup Arthur Nersesian and Joseph Mattson read their work 7pm @ Vroman's Tuesday Naomi Wolf discusses and signs Give Me Liberty 7pm @ Vroman's Savannah Knoop presents and signs Girl Boy Girl 7pm @ Book Soup Peter W. Galbraith......

Union Station Appreciation | Photo by jeffkingla via Flickr Monday Candace Bushnell discusses and signs One Fifth Avenue 7pm @ Vroman's Tuesday No bookish events scheduled today. Wednesday Robert J. Wagner signs Piece of My Heart 7pm @ Borders, Northridge David Henry Sterry presents and signs Master of Ceremonies 7pm @ Book Soup Graeme Base presents and signs Enigma: A Magical Mystery 7pm @ Vroman's Polly Grose signs A London Scrapbook 7:30pm @ Village......

Triforium Sculpture Underbelly Downtown | Photo by Omar Omar via Flickr Monday Todd Komarnicki discusses and signs War 7pm @ Vroman's Tuesday Amy Arbus & Alan Cumming present The Fourth Wall 7pm @ Hammer Museum Sarah Lyall discusses The Anglo Files:A Field Guide to the British 7pm @ Central Library Sandra Tsing Loh presents Mother on Fire: A True Motherf%#$@ Story About Parenting! 7pm @ Skylight Books David Fuller discusses and signs Sweet Smoke......

Vibrant Chinatown Architecture | Photo by LWY via Flickr Monday Nathaniel Mackey presents and signs Bass Cathedral 7pm @ Book Soup Tuesday Susan Squire presents and signs I Don't: A Contrarian History of Marriage 7pm @ Book Soup Wednesday Debra Ginsberg discusses and signs The Grift 7pm @ Vroman's Joie Davidow presents and signs I Wouldn't Leave Rome to Go to Heaven 7pm @ Book Soup......

Down and Out Bear in Atwater | Photo by Zabowski on Flickr Monday Kitty Felde discusses and signs The Theatre of Genocide 7pm @ Vroman's Billy Taylor presents and signs Based on the Movie 7pm @ Book Soup Tuesday Adam Davies discusses and signs Mine All Mine 7pm @ Vroman's Paul McComas presents and signs Planet of the Dates 7pm @ Book Soup Wednesday Daniel Silva discusses and signs Moscow Rules 7pm @ Vroman's......

The new Skylight Books 1814 Space about to become our new favorite haunt | Photo by Tom Andrews/LAist 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......

Wet Vantage Point | Photo by maverick2003 via Flickr Monday Jess Winfield discusses & signs My Name is Will 7pm @ Vroman's Donald Welch presents and signs The Bachelorette Party 7pm @ Book Soup Tuesday Don Felder signs Heaven & Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001) 6:30pm @ Vroman's Stan Lee presents and signs Election Daze: What Are They Really Saying? 7pm @ Book Soup Denise Hamilton signs The Last Embrace 7pm @......

Nam Le was recently in town to read from and sign The Boat, a wildly diverse and intense collection of short stories that did not immediately strike us a short stories and which prompted an interesting dialogue. While we make a point in our author interviews to ask questions that would be of interest to our readers, we found that in this case, we were compelled to ask some pointed questions about our own reading......

A new view - up & out - from Watts Tower | Photo by Exquisitor via Flickr Monday David Wroblewski presents and signs The Story of Edgar Sawtelle 7pm @ Book Soup Rhys Bowen discusses and signs A Royal Pain 7pm @ Vroman's Joe Carducci presents and signs Enter Naomi: SST, L.A. and All That 7:30pm @ Family Tuesday Seth Greenland presents and signs Shining City 7pm @ Book Soup Jim Krusoe presents Girl......

Open All Night Downtown | Photo by zabowski via Flickr Monday Paul Knobloch and Tosh Berman presents and sign The Dead All Have the Same Skin 7pm @ Book Soup Janet Evanovich signs Fearless Fourteen 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade Tuesday Jessica Brody presents and signs The Fidelity Files 7pm @ Book Soup Darin Strauss discusses and signs More Than It Hurts You 7pm @ Vroman's Deanne Stillman discusses Mustang: The......

Gorgeous floral spikes at the Getty | Photo by oscalito via Flickr Monday Stephanie Klein presents and signs Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp 7pm @ Book Soup Tom Zimmerman discusses and signs Paradise Promoted 7pm @ Vroman's Paul Roberts discusses The End of Food with Lisa Brenneis & Bill Fujimoto 7pm @ Central Library Tuesday Jeffrey Lewis presents and signs Adam the King 7pm @ Book Soup Stephanie Klein discusses & signs Moose:......

Photo by juicycactus via Flickr Tuesday Andre Dubus III presents The Garden of Last Days 7pm @ Central Library Bob Morris presents and signs Assisted Loving 7pm @ Book Soup Alan Furst discusses and signs The Spies of Warsaw 7pm @ Vroman's Wednesday Andrea Askowitz presents and signs My Miserable Lonely Lesbian Pregnancy @ Book Soup DeLauné Michel signs The Safety of Secrets 7pm @ Borders, Westwood Donna Foote presents Relentless Pursuit:A Year in......

Dark Downtown Tunnel | Photo by ericcastro via Flickr Tuesday Laura Dave presents and signs The Divorce Party 7pm @ Book Soup Garth Stein discusses and signs The Art of Racing in the Rain 7pm @ Vroman's Alix Strauss presents Have I Got a Guy for You 7pm @ Borders, Hollywood Preeta Samsarasan presents Evening is the Whole Day 7:30pm @ Borders, The Grove Gary Panter discusses Gary Panter with Matt Groening 7:30pm @......

New Mural near La Brea & Melrose. Learn more about the artwork here | Photo by bumblebee via Flickr Monday Mark Sarvas discusses and signs Harry, Revised 7pm @ Vroman's Mike Farrell presents Just Call Me Mike 7pm @ Book Soup Tuesday Brian May presents Bang! The Complete History of the Universe 4pm @ Book Soup Millard Kaufman discusses Bowl of Cherries 7pm @ Central Library Adam Novak presents The Non-Pro 7pm @ Book......

Some of our favorite independent bookstores in LA (Skylight Books, Vroman's, Diesel, Book Soup) have been targeted by scammers claiming to be some of our favorite writers. Here's how it works: a would-be writer calls a bookstore (impersonating a writer who has a scheduled store appearance in the next few hours or days), complains of car trouble, and asks to have cash wired to them immediately to avert their made-up crisis. These pranksters have impersonated......

Ominous Eye in the Arts District Downwtown | Photo by unobtanium via Flickr Monday Sloane Crosley presents I Was Told There'd Be Cake 7pm @ Book Soup Christopher Rauschenberg presents Paris Changing: Revisiting Eugène Atget's Paris 7pm @ Central Library Valerie Mendenhall Cohen presents Woman on the Rocks 7pm @ Vroman's Tuesday Mary Roach presents BONK: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex 7pm @ Central Library David Samuels presents Only Love Can Break......

Ferris Wheel Silhouette in Santa Monica| Photo by *clarity* via Flickr Monday Tori Spelling signs sTORI Telling 7pm @ Book Soup Tuesday Jonathan Rosen presents The Life of the Skies 7pm @ Central Library Alison Larkin signs The English American 7pm @ Borders, Westwood Wendy Johnson presents Gardening at the Dragon's Gate 7pm @ Book Soup Nat Read discusses Don Benito Wilson: From Mountain Man to Mayor 7pm @ Vroman's Jess Ventura signs Don't......

Mark Montano is a man of many talents. He is the host of TLC's 10 Years Younger, part of the design team for While You Were Out, the co-host of the Style Network's My Celebrity Home and the co-host of She's Moving In. As if that were not enough, he'll be signing The Big-Ass Book of Crafts today at Skylight Books @ 5pm. With cool shops like Reform School highlighting indie wares, the craft scene......

A Zen Day at LACMA, Flipped | Photo by pink_fish13 from LAist Featured Photos Pool on Flickr Monday Markus Flanagan presents One Less Bitter Actor 7pm @ Book Soup Dee Dee Myers presents Why Women Should Rule the World 7pm @ Vroman's John Richardson signs A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years 7pm @ LACMA Tuesday Tony D'Souza presents The Konkans 7pm @ Book Soup Tom Cathcart & Daniel Klein present Aristotle & an......

Monday Michael Pollan and Barry Glassner discuss In Defense of Food 7pm @ Central Library Cindy Pierce and Edie Thys Morgan presents Finding the Doorbell 7pm @ Book Soup Tuesday Traci Slatton presents Immortal 6:30pm @ Metropolis Books Joe McGinniss and special guest Bret Easton Ellis present The Delivery Man 7pm @ Book Soup Terri Cheney discusses and signs Manic: A Memoir 7pm @ Vroman's Gary Goldberg presents Sit, Ubu, Sit 7pm @ Dutton's......

Monday No bookish events on Mr. King's Day. Tuesday John Densmore of The Doors, Jim Henke and John McDermott present The Jim Morrison Scrapbook and Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience 7pm @ Book Soup Wednesday Sudhir Venkatesh presents Gang Leader for a Day 7pm @ Vroman's E. Duke Vincent presents Black Widow 7pm @ Book Soup Robert Novak presentsThe Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington 7pm @ Glendale Public Library Thursday Steve......

The week in Los Angeles bookish events from Monday, January 7th - Sunday, January 13th. Readings, signings and bookish events this week include Andy Summers, Jami Attenberg, Judith Freeman, Alice Fulton, J.A. Jance and Robert Gottlieb....

KT Tunstall - "Black Horse & The Cherry Tree" KT Tunstall @ Avalon Misfits @ House of Blues Spiritualized @ The Vista Black Dice, No Age, Mika Miko @ Echoplex Sondre Lerche @ Troubadour American Music Club @ Echo Jill Sobule, Julia Sweeney @ Largo The Whigs, Wild Sweet Orange @ Spaceland Falco Does It Dirty, Omissa, There Shall Be Blood @ Knitting Factory Back Door Slam @ Viper Room DTFM, Truth In Fiction,......

Monday Dave Isay, from StoryCorps, presents Listening Is an Act of Love 7pm @ Vroman's Johan Lehrer presents Proust Was a Neuroscientist 7pm @ Dutton's Nigella Lawson presents The Domestic Goddess 7pm Borders, Torrance Tom Brokaw presents Boom! Voices of the Sixties 7:30pm @ Temple Emanuel Tuesday Clive Barker presents Mister B. Gone 7pm @ Vroman's Gregory Rodriguez presents Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans & Vagabonds 7pm @ Central Library Susanne Daniels presents Season Finale 7pm @......

Monday Shalom Auslander presents Foreskin's Lament 7pm @ Vroman's Valerie Plame Wilson presents Fair Game 7pm @ Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Long Beach Barbara Firestone presents Autism Heroes 7pm @ Dutton's Slash presents Slash 7pm @ Borders, Torrance Lawrence Wright presents The Looming Tower 7:30pm @ UCLA Tuesday David Plante, with host Mark Danielewski, presents ABC 7pm @ Book Soup Michael Lent presents Christmas Letters from Hell 7pm @ Vroman's Tommy Lasorda & Bill Plaschke......

Monday Paul Krugman discusses The Conscience of a Liberal 7pm @ Central Library Randy Cepuch signs A Weekend With Warren Buffett 4pm @ Dutton's Jenna Bush presents Ana's Story 7pm @ Pasadena Public Library Jason Goodwin discusses and signs The Snake Stone 7pm @ Vroman's Tuesday Wole Soyninka discusses his work with Mona Simpson 7pm @ Hammer Museum Eduardo Machado & Michael Domitrovich present Tastes Like Cuba 7pm @ Book Soup Maira Kalman discusses &......

Monday Edmund White presents Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel 7pm @ Central Library Patricia Hampl presents The Florist's Daughter 7pm @ Dutton's Red Hen Press poets read their work 8pm @ Boston Court Main Stage, Pasadena Tuesday Oliver Sacks presents Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain 7pm @ Central Library Roger Director presents I Dream in Blue 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove Francisco Goldman presents The Art of Politcal......

Monday Porochista Khakpour presents Sons and Other Flammable Objects 7pm @ Dutton's Kenneth Turan presents Never Coming to a Theater Near You 7pm @ Studio City Branch Library Tuesday Susan Faludi presents The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America 7pm @ Central Library Max Brooks presents World War Z 7pm @ Book Soup Walter Mosley presents Blonde Faith 7:30pm @ Skirball Cultural Center President Vicente Fox discusses and signs Revolution of Hope......

Monday Bjorn Lomborg presents Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming 7pm @ Central Library Terry Pratchett presents Making Money 7pm @ Borders, Torrance Randall Robinson presents An Unbroken Agony 7pm @ EsoWon Books Tuesday Carol Muske-Dukes presents Channeling Mark Twain 7pm @ Vroman's Cathy Malkasian presents Percy Gloom 7pm @ Book Soup Gilbert Hernandez presents Chance in Hell 7pm @ Book Soup Leslie Garis signs House of Happy Endings 7pm @......

Monday Will Beall presents L.A. Rex 7pm @ Book Soup Robert Alter & Jonathan Kirsch discuss The Book of Psalms with David Ulin 7pm @ Central Library Mark Schapiro signs Exposed 7pm @ Dutton's Richard King presents Spirituality in the Workplace 7pm @ Vroman's Alan Alda presents Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself 7pm @ Borders, Westwood Tuesday Bill Clinton presents Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World 2pm @ Vroman's......