Monday 10/24: Mark Frost presents his book, The Secret History of Twin Peaks. You can bring one other piece of memorabilia to be signed, but show up early if you want to get in. 7 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
Robert Perlow discusses and signs The Warmup Guy. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Ian Scheffler discusses and signs Cracking the Cube: Going Slow to Go Fast and Other Unexpected Turns in the World of Competitive Rubik’s Cube Solving. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Tuesday 10/25: Peter McCoy discusses and signs Radical Mycology. 7 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
Chelsea Sutton, Jian Huang, Wendy Labinger, and Marnie Goodfriend read from their works and discuss how new writers can grow their careers. Booklets of The Dimes will be available for purchase, which supports 826LA. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.
Carrie Brownstein celebrates the paperback release of Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir, with Maggie Nelson. Doors at 7 p.m., show at 8:30 p.m. at Largo at the Coronet. $30 tickets here.
Jason Porath discusses and signs Rejected Princesses: Tales of History’s Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Wednesday 10/26: It’s Lit Crawl L.A.! Come to North Hollywood for three rounds of over forty readings in more than 36 venues! Opening ceremony is at 6 p.m. at the North Hollywood Metro Station Plaza, then stay for a sampling of everything literary that Los Angeles has to offer.
Leo Braudy reads from and discusses Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds, in conversation with Tom Lutz. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.
Poet Eileen Myles and writer/director Jill Soloway discuss ways of representing queerness in literature and the mass media. 7:30 p.m. at the Hammer Museum.
Jess Rotter launches her new book I’m Bored. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Thursday 10/27: Robert K. Elder, in conversation with Lesley Blume, discusses and signs Hidden Hemingway: Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak Park. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Robert Rosenstone discusses and signs Adventures of a Postmodern Historian: Living and Writing the Past. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
The October Stories. Authors read from their scary stories. Details TBA. 8 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe.
Friday 10/28: The Get Lit Players perform their spoken word poetry and present their brand new book Get Lit Rising. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Adriana Mather discusses and signs How to Hang a Witch. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Randa Jarrar reads from Him, Me, Muhammad Ali, in conversation with Wendy C. Ortiz and Myriam Gurba. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.
Laurence Rickels discusses his new book The Psycho Records. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
A Night of Dark Fantasy with Dennis Etchison and Peter Atkins. 8 p.m. at Beyond Baroque. $10/members free.
Saturday 10/29: Aaron Wallace and writer Mick Garris sign Hocus Pocus: The Thinking Fan’s Guide to Disney’s Halloween Classic. 2 p.m. at Dark Delicacies.
Patrick Sheane Duncan discusses and signs Dracula vs. Hitler. 4 p.m. at Book Soup.
Skylight turns 20, and celebrates with a cocktail party (shhh, they’re not 21 yet, but don’t tell). 6 p.m. at Skylight Books.
What Books Press Fall Publication Reading: The “She” Series. Featuring Holaday Mason and Sarah Maclay. With special guests Karen Kavorkian and Carolie Parker. 8 p.m. at Beyond Baroque. $10/members free.
Sunday 10/30: 20th Anniversary Children’s Brunch, featuring Pseudonymous Bosch, who will lead a story-crafting workshop based on his how-to, Write This Book. 11 a.m. at Skylight Books.
Poet and Lana Turner editor David Lau debut his second book, Still Dirty. Also featuring Jeanine Webb, Brian Ang, Sesshu Foster, Victor Valle, and Mike Sonksen. 2 p.m. at Beyond Baroque.
Griffith Park Storytelling Series presents a “pre-Halloween” reading featuring Lauren Candia, Natashia Deón, Sara Gran, Emma Kemp, and Michelle Tea. 3 p.m. at Travel Town.
David J. Skal discusses and signs Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula. 4 p.m. at Book Soup.
Local Author Day featuring Laura Landgraf, Kamea Chayne, and J.B. Keats. 4 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
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