Monday 3/7: Editor Meredith Maran and guests discuss and sign Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Nat B. Read discusses and signs Speed Bumps on the Yellow Brick Road. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
PEN Center USA presents their Emerging Voices Readings with Henri Cole and Amy Gerstler. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.
It’s the first Monday of the month, which means it’s your chance to head out to the Speakeasy/Open Mic Night and strut your literary stuff! Sign-ups begin at 7:45 p.m. and readings begin at 8 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
Tuesday 3/8: Stephanie Storey discusses and signs Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Wilde Words: The Return. Featuring readings by Brittany Knupper, Elyse Reardon-Jung, Giorgio Selvaggio, Alex Robinson Browning, Jake Faulkner, and host Vesta Vaingloria. 8 p.m. at The Wilde Thistle.
Wednesday 3/9: Greg Jackson discusses and signs Prodigals: Stories. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Lisa Lutz signs The Passenger and Alison Gaylin signs What Remains of Me. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Edan Lepucki reads from her work. 7:30 p.m. at Otis College of Art and Design‘s Ahmanson Hall Forum.
Thursday 3/10: Francesca Lia Block, and guests, reads from and signs Rough Magick: Anthology. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Tracy McMillan presents and signs Multiple Listings. 7 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe.
Chris Morris presents and signs Los Lobos Dream in Blue. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.
Dana Spiotta reads from her new novel Innocents and Others. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Friday 3/11: Marilyn DeYoung presents and signs Remarkable Women of California. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Vox & Voices presents readings by Britt Witt, Taleen Kali, and Yumi Sakugawa. Plus live music. Presented by Dum Dum Zine. 7 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe.
Ken Corbett discusses his new book Murder Over A Girl, with Maggie Nelson. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Sesshu Foster and Maria Garcia Teutsch read from their poetry. 8 p.m. at Beyond Baroque. $10/members free.
Saturday 3/12: The Bradbury Room. Grand Park’s Olive Court transforms to an installation of DIY typewriting inspired by Bradbury’s own experience writing Fahrenheit 451 in the basement typing room of UCLA’s Lawrence Clark Powell Library in 1952. Presented by Grand Park, Writ Large Press, the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, and the nation-wide The Big Read. 12 p.m. at Grand Park.
Kara Cooney presents and signs The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt. 4 p.m. at Book Soup.
Zoe Dolan presents Transgender No More. 5 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe.
Holaday Mason, Marsha De La O, and Gail Wronsky read from their works. 5 p.m. at Beyond Baroque. $5 suggested donation.
Sunday 3/13: Soap Box Open Reading. Hosted by Jessica Wilson. Sign ups begin at 1:45 p.m. and readings begin at 2 p.m. at Beyond Baroque. $5 suggested donation.
Joel Grey discusses and signs his memoir Master of Ceremonies. 3 p.m. at Diesel Brentwood.
Juan F. Thompson discusses and signs Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson. 4 p.m. at Book Soup.
Karmel Graham presents and signs Jumbo Hill and Kathryn Le Veque presents and signs The Questing. 4 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Alan Rifkin presents and signs Burdens by Water: An Unintended Memoir. 6 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.
Jon Wilkman presents and signs his new nonfiction book Floodpath. There will also be a showing of a documentary he is working on about the St. Francis Dam disaster. 6:30 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
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