Monday 11/16: PEN Center USA presents the 25th Annual Literary Awards Festival! Cocktail reception at 6 p.m., Awards Dinner and Program at 7:30 p.m. at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Tickets available HERE, and support the amazing work that PEN Center USA does.
Los Angeles Review of Books presents Roy Scranton discussing and signing Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Tuesday 11/17: Alexandra Kleeman discusses and signs You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Edmond J. Clinton III discusses and signs Clifton’s and Clifford Clinton: A Cafeteria and a Crusader. 7 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
Colleen Hoover discusses and signs her new book November 9. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.
Sam Alden discusses his new comic book New Construction. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Beyond Baroque presents: Gratitude is a Four-Letter Word. Featuring Laurel Ann Bogen, Brendan Constantine, Beth Marquez, and Alex Ustach. 7:30 p.m. at The Hotel Erwin. $10 donation requested, pre-purchase HERE.
Wednesday 11/18: Steve Hodel discusses and signs Most Evil II: Presenting the Follow-Up Investigation and Decryption of the 1970 Zodiac Cipher in Which the San Francisco Serial Killer Reveals His True Identity. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Graham Hancock discusses and signs Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization. 7 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
Skylight Books presents Rainn Wilson discussing his new memoir The Bassoon King, with Rhett Miller. 7 p.m. at Largo at the Coronet. $40 tickets available HERE.
Fred Moten reads from his works. 7:30 p.m. at Otis College of Art and Design‘s Ahmanson Hall Forum.
Thursday 11/19: Anna-Marie McLemore discusses and signs The Weight of Feathers. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
The SoCal Mystery Writers of America presents Lisa Brackmann, Harley Jane Kozak, Phoef Sutton, and Steph Cha. 7 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
Derek Haas reads and signs his new book A Different Lie. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.
Beyond Lolita. Julia Fierro, Wendy C. Ortiz, J. Ryan Stradal, and Robin Rinaldi discuss sex and sexuality in literature. Moderated by LA writer Anna March. Beyond Lolita is a series of events to benefit PEN America’s Writers’ Emergency Fund. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Friday 11/20: A night of poetry featuring Carine Topal, Dorothy Barresi, and Lynne Thompson. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Paul Cummins discusses and signs Confessions of a Headmaster. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
The Last Book Review hosts Caitlin Bergh and Ever Mainard bring together six comedians and a music act for an evening of storytelling and discussion. Doors at 8 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
Joe Hill Centenary with Ross Altman and friends. 8 p.m. at Beyond Baroque. $10/members fre.
Saturday 11/21: Nebraska Girl Open Mic, hosted by Wyatt Underwood. Five-minute limit. Sign-ups start at 1:45 p.m. in the Mike Kelley Gallery at Beyond Baroque. $5 suggested donation.
Illeana Douglas discusses and signs I Blame Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories from a Life Lived in and Out of the Movies. 5 p.m. at Book Soup.
Dinah Lenney presents Brief Encounters, together with Emily Rapp Black, Chris Daley, Amy Gerstler, Tod Goldberg, and Jim Krusoe. 5 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Shades & Shadows 13! LA’s only genre fiction reading series presents Stephen Jay Schwartz, Chrome Oxide, Romina Russell, Taylor Grant, Maureen McHugh, and Scott Tomasheski, who will all be reading from their works. Hosted by Lauren Candia. 7:30 p.m. at the MiMoDa Studio. $10.
Sunday 11/22: Tongue and Groove presents readings themed around food, featuring J. Ryan Stradal, Cheryl Montelle, Jeremy Radin, and April Davila. Hosted by Conrad Romo. 6 p.m. at The Hotel Cafe. $6.
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