Monday 3/10: Alice LaPlante discusses and signs A Circle of Wives. 7:00 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Tuesday 3/11: Lilibet Snellings reads from Box Girl. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Wednesday 3/12: Lew Irwin presents and signs Deadly Times: The 1910 Bombing of the Los Angeles Times and America’s Forgotten Decade of Terror. 7:00 p.m. at Book Soup.
ALOUD presents Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot. Masha Gessen in conversation with Suzi Weissman, Professor of Politics, St. Mary’s College. 7:15 p.m. at the Los Angeles Central Library’s Mark Taper Auditorium. The show is full, but standby seats will be released at 7:00 p.m.
Amy Talkington reads from Liv, Forever. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Thursday 3/13: Juliano Maio presents and signs City of the Sun. 7:00 p.m. at Book Soup.
Douglas Kearney reads from Patter. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Friday 3/14: Two Dollar Radio presents their authors D. Foy, Grace Krilanovich, and Karolina Waclawiak reading from their new books. 7:30 p.m. at the Last Bookstore.
Debz Hobbs-Wyatt presents While No One Was Watching. 7:30 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe.
Saturday 3/15: Poet/Translator Barbara Siegel Carlson reads from Fire Road, her new poetry collection. 4:00 p.m. at Beyond Baroque.
Shades & Shadows, L.A.’s SF/F/H reading series, presents authors Zack Morrissette, S.P. Hendrick, Nina Berry, Becket, Chiwan Choi, and Cherisse Yanit-Nadal. Hosted by Lauren Candia and Xach Fromson (me!). Doors at 8:00, show at 8:30 p.m. at the California Institute of AbnormalArts. $10 at the door.
Sunday 3/16: 826LA and HOT DISH have put together a Sunday brunch, featuring writer & comedian Sara Benincasa, comic book writer Erin Hickey, novelist Cari Lynn, and short stories from Tommy Moore, Zoe Ruiz, and Eric Stolze. Brunch spread provided by Kima Jones, Kate Maruyama, Elina Shatkin, and Erin Hickey. Also present will be David & Hilary from the Book Bound Mobile Library. Hosted, as always, by Summer Block Kumar & J. Ryan Stradal. 11:00 a.m. at 826LA Echo Park, $5.00 at the door.
Independent Writers of Southern California (IWOSC) Reads Its Own. Fourteen members of IWOSC read from their own works at this special event. 2:00 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
The monthly series HITCHED: The Poetry of Emerging Counterparts features WriteGirl mentor India Radfar, Erin Yarbrough, Darika Brown, and WriteGirl in schools teacher and pLAywriting in the city editor, Ramona Gonzales with pLAwriting in the city founding editor, Fanny Garcia. 5:00 p.m. at Beyond Baroque. $10 general/$6 senior/$6 student. Members free.