It’s Banned Books Week! Check out the website to see if some of your favorites are on the list of banned books, and make the fight to read freely a personal one for you.
Monday 9/26: Take a personal day. Tell your boss we told you to.
Tuesday 9/27: Duane Swierczynski discusses and signs Revolver. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Melissa de la Cruz discusses and signs Something in Between. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Christopher DeWan and friends read from his new short story collection HOOPTY TIME MACHINES: fairy tales for grown ups. 7 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
Night of Silenced Voices: A Banned Books Week Celebration. Featuring Steph Cha, Natashia Deón, and Chris Terry. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
The Women Group monthly reading. Don’t let the name fool you, anybody/everybody is welcome. 8 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe.
Wednesday 9/28: Tessa Hadley reads from and signs her novel, The Past. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.
Margot Black discusses and signs Where’s My Award?: How to Get Baby Barf Out of a Red Carpet & Other Tales from a Working Mom in Hollywood. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Terry McDonell discusses and signs Accidental Life: An Editor’s Notes on Writing and Writers. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Negin Farsad presents her new book, How To Make White People Laugh. 7:30 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
Mike Roberts reads from his debut novel, Cannibals in Love. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Thursday 9/29: LitFolks LA Reading Event: Seven Writers on Glorious Things & Loss of Faith in Writing. Featuring Aya de Leon, Bryan Allen Fierro, Minal Hajratwala, Dana Johnson, Karen Palmer, Jeremy Rosenberg, and Margaret Wappler. Hosted by Antonia Crane, Seth Fischer, Ashley Perez, Nina Rota, Laura Warrell, and Anna March. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.
George Christie discusses and signs Exile on Front Street: My Life as a Hells Angel…and Beyond. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
David Arnold, in conversation with John Corey Whaley, discusses and signs Kids of Appetite. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Skylight Books presents Jonathan Safran Foer, reading from his new novel, Here I Am. Doors at 7: at The Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School. Tickets are $33 and available HERE.
Alexander Maksik discusses and signs Shelter in Place, with Marisa Silver. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Agustin Aguilar celebrates the release of his novel Leonora Come Down. With special guests Jarrett Kobek, William E. Jones, and Hillary Jaynes. 8 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe.
Friday 9/30: Judge Willam Norris discusses and signs his new book Liberal Opinions: My Life in the Stream of History. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.
Linda Thompson discusses and signs A Little Thing Called Life: On Loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and Songs in Between. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Elizabeth Lesser discusses and signs Marrow: A Love Story. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
An evening with Cornelia Funke and her local publishing company, Breathing Books, on writing fantasy, indie publishing, and more. 7 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
Zach Wyner presents his debut novel What We Never Had. 8 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe.
National Translation Month event. Special guests will be reading works translated from Spanish, Italian, French, and Japanese. 8 p.m. at Beyond Baroque.
Saturday 10/1: Kim Dower and Ron Koertge read from their poetry. 8 p.m. at Beyond Baroque.
Sunday 10/2: 826LA presents Concrete Verse Creatures. 11 a.m. at The Hammer Museum. Sign up HERE.
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