Monday 10/17: Book Soup presents An Evening with Grace Bonney and her new book, In the Company of Women. Featuring Hope and Lily Stockman, Joy Cho, Tanya Aguiniga, Bethany Yellowtail, Shadi Petoski, Roxane Gay, and Angelica Ross. 7:30 p.m. at Freud Playhouse at UCLA. $44 for a ticket and a book, $10 for just a ticket, available here.
Tuesday 10/18: Brian Wilson signs I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir. 6 p.m. at Book Soup.
David Kulczyk presents his new book California’s Deadliest Women: Dangerous Dames and Murderous Moms. 7 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
Mike Massimino discusses his book Spaceman. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Wednesday 10/19: The Women’s National Book Association, Los Angeles Chapter discuss the importance of women’s stories and voices with critically acclaimed novelists Carmiel Banasky, Sonia Patel, and Katherine Taylor. 7 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Willam Belli discusses and signs Suck Less: Where There’s a Willam, There’s a Way. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Hua Hsu presents and signs A Floating Chinaman. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.
An Evening with Horror Screenwriters. Moderator Peter Katz discusses the form and genre with Jeffrey Reddick, Stephen Susco, and Brad Keene. 7 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
homo-centric welcomes Trebor Healey, who will be reading from his new short story collection, Eros & Dust, and Michelle Tea, who will be reading from her latest, Black Wave. 7:30 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe.
Thursday 10/20: Tom Lutz discusses and signs And the Monkey Learned Nothing: Dispatches from a Life in Transit. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Simon Reynolds discusses his new book Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century, with Dean Wareham. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Beyond Baroque presents poets Marjorie Becker, Jeanette Clough, Paul Lieber, Sarah Maclay, Holaday Mason, Jim Natal, Jan Wesley, Brenda Yates, and Mariano Zaro reading new and selected work. 8 p.m. at Hotel Erwin. $5 donation suggested.
Friday 10/21: David Thomson discusses and signs Television: A Biography. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Caleb Roehrig presents and signs Last Seen Leaving. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Lidija Dimkovska reads from her novel A Spare Life. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
SoCal Ghosts and Where to Find Them: Richard Carradine hosts this panel with members of Planet Paranormal and North Orange Paranormal. 8 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
Phoebe MacAdams and Mark Rhodes read from their poetry. 8 p.m. at Beyond Baroque. $10/members free.
Saturday 10/22: Gretchen McNeil presents I’m Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl, Kasie West presents P.S. I Like You, J.R. Johansson presents The Row, and Bree Despain presents The Immortal Throne. 3 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
jackson joad (David Steiner) reads from Book Four of his eight-volume poetic epic, The Burning of Desire. 4 p.m. at Beyond Baroque. $10/members free.
Lynn Lipinski discusses and signs God of the Internet. 5 p.m. at Book Soup.
Eden Sher discusses her new book The Emotionary: A Dictionary of Words That Don’t Exist for Feelings That Do. 5 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Sunday 10/23: An afternoon of Colgate University authors with Michael Hiltzik, Chris Edwards, Mary Anna King, and Kevin Glynn. 3 p.m. at Book Soup.
Come join Red Hen Press poets Amy Uyematsu, Ron Koertge, and Brendan Constantine for LA Poetry Celebration, and the release of Amy Uyematsu’s new collection of poems, Basic Vocabulary. 3 p.m. at Diesel Brentwood.
Ruth Franklin discusses and signs Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life. 4 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
What Books Press presents Carolie Parker, Sarah Maclay, and Holaday Mason, reading from their most recent works of poetry. 5 p.m. at Skylight Books.
POESÍA FÉSTIVAL open mic and poetry reading featuring Latin American poets from LA: Marina Moncada, Joaquín López, Raul Arredondo, Emilia Chuquin, Carolina Rivera, Ricardo Ventura, Marcela Urrutia, and more. Hosted by Antonieta Villamil. 6 p.m. at Beyond Baroque. Suggested donation $5.
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