Monday 9/7: It’s the first Monday of the month, which means you get to strut your literary stuff at the Speakeasy/Open Mic Night. Sign-ups start at 7:45 p.m. and readings begin at 8 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
Tuesday 9/8: Adam Mansbach and Alan Zweibel discuss and sign Benjamin Franklin: Huge Pain in the… 6:30 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Rob Neighbors discusses and signs Palm Avenue. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Jane Ward discusses her new book Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Wednesday 9/9: Miranda July discusses and signs The First Bad Man. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
PEN Center USA presents The Rattling Wall Issue 5 Reading, with David Ulin, Cecil Castellucci, Rita Williams, David Francis, Julianne Ortale, and Susan Berman. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Thursday 9/10: John Markoff discusses and signs Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Robert Guffey reads from his new book Chamelo. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Friday 9/11: Samuel Sattin discusses literary monsters, and his new novel, The Silent End, in conversation with Xach Fromson (that’s me! You should come!). 7 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
K.B. Hill discusses and signs Witchyman. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Hester Young discusses and signs The Gates of Evangeline. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
The Monday Night Poetry Posse presents readings by Marjorie Becker, Jeanette Clough, Paul Lieber, Sarah McClay, Holaday Mason, Jim Natal, Jan Wesley, Brenda Yates, and Mariano Zaro. 8 p.m. at Beyond Baroque. $10/members free.
Saturday 9/12: Héctor Tobar in conversation with Los Angeles Times’s Carolina Miranda. 7:30 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
Jonathan Franzen discusses his new novel Purity. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Sunday 9/13: Soap Box Open Reading. Hosted by Jessica Wilson. 2 p.m. at Beyond Baroque. Free, but donations accepted.
The Bluebird Reading Series presents Hello Autumn! Featuring readings by Ashaki M. Jackson, Carribean Fragoza, Ronald Baca, and the Altadena Poet Laureate, Thelma T. Reyna. An open mic follows the featured programming. 2 p.m. at Avenue 50 Studio.
Christopher Moore discusses and signs Secondhand Souls. 4 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
Release party for It All Dies Anyway: LA, Jabberjaw, and the End of an Era. 5 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe.
Bonita Thompson reads from her novel The New Middle. 5 p.m. at Skylight Books.
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