Notable Los Angeles 2/10–2/16

Monday 2/10: Write Club Los Angeles presents Chapter 22: A Love Worth Fightin’ For. This special engagement has couples facing off. Jessica Hanna vs. Michael Dunn, Jamie Denbo vs. John Ross Bowie, and Michael A. Shepperd vs. Hutchins Foster, the audience will decide the winners. Hosted by Paula Killen and Justin Welborn. 7 p.m. at The Bootleg Theater. $5-$20, pay what you can.

Jason Porter discusses and signs Why Are You So Sad? 7:00 p.m. at Book Soup.

Tuesday 2/11: PEN Center USA presents The Rattling Wall 4. Contributors Corey Campbell, Ruth Nolan, Anne-Marie Kinney, Minh Pham, T.D. Anderson, and Martin Pousson will be reading. 7:00 p.m. at Book Soup.

Red Hen Press brings you an event featuring Lisa C. Krueger, Mark Wunderlich, and Dr. Kate Gale, moderated by Dinah Lenney. 7:00 p.m. at Boston Court Performing Arts Center. $10 ($5 members/students/seniors) at the door or here.

Wednesday 2/12: Pamela Ribon, Janie Haddad Tompkins, and Sara Benincasa read from their essays in the book True Tales of Lust and Love, based on the hit storytelling show. 7:00 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.

Thursday 2/13: L.A. Zine Fest 2014 presents the release party for the zine/novella We Are in Zine Love with You! Featuring readings by Yumi Christina Sakugawa, Zoë Ruiz (editor of this here website!), Lilliam Rivera, Tomas Moniz, Bianca Barragan, and Jonas Canno. 7:00 p.m. at And Pen Press.

Vermin on the Mount presents a night of irreverent readings by Richard Lange, Vanessa Place, Chris Terry, Karolina Waclawiak, Bonnie ZoBell, and your host, Jim Ruland. 7:30 p.m. at Book Show.

Friday 2/14: It’s Valentine’s Day! Join Giant Robot and L.A. Zine Fest for Friend-Love With Benefits, with readings by Bangs & Beard, Jesse Tise, Kelsey Short, MariNaomi, Nick Sumida, and Yumi Sakugawa. 7:00 p.m. at GR2.

B.J. Novak presents and signs One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories. 7 p.m. at New Beverly Cinema. $29.95 tickets available here get you one copy of the book and two tickets to the event.

Saturday 2/15: The girls of WriteGirl read from the anthology You Are Here. 4:00 p.m. at Skylight Books.

A night of literature, intrigue, and comedy with Jennifer Blowdryer, Alvin Orloff, Justin Maurer, and Burt Passeos. 7 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe.

Sunday 2/16: The Griffith Park Storytelling Series presents an afternoon of stories hidden in the park. Featuring readings by Neelanjana Banergee, Trinie Dalton, Jim Gavin, Janet Sarbanes, and Bel Poblador. 3:00 p.m. at the hidden amphitheater in Griffith Park. Go to the website for directions.

Tongue & Groove presents readings by Eileen Cronin, Rob Roman, Carribean Fragoza, Bill Brochtrup, Tom Lisowski and music by Tony Shea. Hosted by Conrad Romo. 6:00 p.m. at The Hotel Cafe. $6 at the door.

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Xach Fromson is a native Angeleno and the co-host/co-founder of Shades & Shadows, a sci-fi/fantasy/horror/etc. reading series here in LA. He studied creative writing at California State University Northridge, where he worked on The Northridge Review. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California Riverside Palm Desert Low Residency program, and is finishing his first novel. He appeared at Dirty Laundry Lit's "Love Sucks" event in February 2013, and has stories published in "Halloween Tales" and "Winter Horror Days" from Omnium Gatherum press. And once, he slew a dragon. Follow him on Twitter @_mythogenesis_.

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