Results tagged “theweekinbookishla”

Howard Rosenberg & Charles Feldman discuss and sign No Time to Think: The Menace of Media Speed & the 24-hour News Cycle 7pm @ Vroman's

Susan Lankford presents Maggots in My Sweet Potatoes: Women Doing Time 7pm @ Book Soup

Billy Taylor presents and signs Based on the Movie 7pm @ Book Soup

Christopher Reich signs Rules Of Deception 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade

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

David Benioff presents City of Theives 7pm @ Borders, Westwood

Mike Farrell presents Just Call Me Mike 7pm @ Book Soup

John Landis signs his John Landis 7pm @ Borders, Santa Monica

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

Valerie Mendenhall Cohen presents Woman on the Rocks 7pm @ Vroman's

Jeffrey Sachs discusses Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet 7pm @ Central Library

Tori Spelling signs sTORI Telling 7pm @ Book Soup

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

Ray Bradbury, Forrest J. Ackerman and Ray Harryhausen discuss their work 7:30pm @ Mystery & Imagination Bookstore

Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA includes some outstanding readings this week from some fine, fine writers including Maggie Nelson, Anne Enright, Colm Toibin, Toby Barlow, Amy Hempel, Peter Carey, John Rechy, Martha Grimes and Russell Banks.

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.

No bookish events on Mr. King's Day.

Kim Sunee presents Trail of Crumbs 7pm @ Vroman's

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.

Memorial Reading for Mutanabbi Street with Chris Abani, Beau Beausoleil, Laila Lalami, Suzanne Lummis, Majid Naficy, Marisela Norte, Sholeh Wolpe & Terry Wolverton 7pm @ Centraly Library

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 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...

Sy Safransky discusses his work and The Sun 7:30pm @ Beverly Hills Public Library

Gordy Slack presents The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything 7pm @ Vroman's

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

Lori Andrews signs The Silent Assassin 7pm @ Dutton's

Monday Elizabeth Gilbert discusses and signs Eat Pray Love 7pm @ Vroman's Sasha Abramsky presents American Furies 7pm @ Book Soup Bruce Dern signs Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have 7pm @ Dutton's Tuesday Michael Ondaatje presents Divisadero 7pm @ Central Library James St. James presents Freak Show 7pm @ Book Soup Ann Brashares discusses and signs The Last Summer (of You and Me) 7pm @ Vroman's Robert Ellis presents City of Fire...