Saturday 8/31: Please join PoetrIE, an Inland Empire literary community, for a night of poetry at Beyond Baroque! Featuring world renowned Poet Chad Sweeney and a special guest with the support of Lawrence Eby, Cindy Rinne, Isabel Quintero, L.B. Aaron Reeder IV, and Michael Cooper. 8 p.m.
Sunday 9/1: Anne-Marie Kinney and Rumpus contributor Sara Finnerty host Griffith Park Storytelling Series–Bird Sanctuary Edition. Readers include Tom Dibblee, Brittany Goode, Joseph Mattson, Brandon Som, and newly minted managing editor of The Rumpus, Zoë Ruiz. 5 p.m. at the Griffith Park Bird Sanctuary. After the reading, buy Zoë a congratulatory drink at The Griffin.
Tuesday 9/3: Dianne Dixon discusses and signs The Book of Someday at Vroman’s Bookstore. 7 p.m.
Benjamin Svetkey discusses and signs Leading Man at Book Soup. 7 p.m.
Wednesday 9/4: Author and photographer Theron Humphrey and dog Maddie will be at Skylight Books reading and “pawtographing” at Skylight Books at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday 9/5: D. H. Peligro discusses and signs Dreadnaught: King of Afropunk at Book Soup. 7 p.m.
Donald Prothero reads from Abominable Science at Skylight Books at 7:30 p.m.
Friday 9/6: George D. Morgan discusses and signs Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America’s First Female Rocket Scientist, with special guest Ashley Stroupe, PhD at Vroman’s Bookstore, 7 p.m.