Notable Los Angeles: 3/13–3/19
Monday 3/13: Ryan Ruby, with Natasha Vargas-Cooper, discusses and signs The Zero and the One. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Chen Chen reading and signing When I Grow up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.
Write Club 61: Old School. Featuring Kevin Crowley, Andrea Schell, Jonathon, Joe Lavelle, Lauren Kincheloe, and Serita Robinson. Hosted by Justin Welborn and Paula Killen. Doors 6:30 p.m./show 7 p.m. at the Bootleg Theater.
Tuesday 3/14: Benjamin Alire Saenz discusses and signs The Inexplicable Logic of My Life. 6:30 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Felicia Sullivan discusses and signs Follow Me into the Dark. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Kayla Cagan presents her debut novel Piper Perish. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.
Timothy O’Leary presents his new book, Dick Cheney Shot Me in the Face: And Other Tales of Men in Pain. In conversation with Auggie Smith. 7:30 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
Patty Yumi Cottrell discusses her new book Sorry to Disrupt the Peace with Amina Cain. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Let the Boy Howl. Reading by Noelle Proffit and Nikolas Escudero. 8 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe.
Wednesday 3/15: Beware, and all that, yeah?
Barry Friedman presents and signs Unwarranted, in conversation with Matt Johnson. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.
Read to Me! Open Mic Night hosted by Jenny Funkmeyer. 7 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
Daniel Magariel discusses and signs One of the Boys. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Rod Pyle discusses and signs Amazing Stories of the Space Age: True Tales of Nazis in Orbit, Soldiers on the Moon, Orphaned Martian Robots, and Other Fascinating Accounts from the Annals of Spaceflight. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Kaya Press presents Kazim Ali, Hari Alluri, and special guest Abeer Y. Hoque. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Thursday 3/16: Lauren Fern Watt discusses and signs Gizelle’s Bucket List: My Life with a Very Large Dog. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Norman Ohler, in conversation with Russell Ferguson, discusses and signs Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Christina Baker Kline presents and signs A Piece of the World. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.
Meg Howrey reads from her novel The Wanderers with Charles Yu. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Friday 3/17: Meredith Maran in conversation with Susan Orlean, discusses and signs The New Old Me: My Late-Life Reinvention. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Christina Baker Kline discusses and signs A Piece of the World. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Tyler Knight reads and signs Burn My Shadow. 7:30 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe.
Saturday 3/18: Tom Merritt discusses and signs Pilot X. 4 p.m. at Book Soup.
Ben Blatt discusses his book Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve. 5 p.m. at Skylight Books.
The UC Irvine MFA Reading Series presents readings by poets Michael Gould and Samantha Richardson, and fiction writers Julie Schulte and Gareth Seigel. 5 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Shades & Shadows 20! Featuring Michelle Tea, Jennifer Brody, Mike Robinson, Forrest Leo, David G. Boyd, +1 more TBA. Hosted by Lauren Candia and Xach Fromson (hi, mom!). Doors at 7:30 p.m. at the Mystic Museum. $10 tickets available here.
Married to the Word: Alison Turner and Lou Mathews. Presented by Suzanne Lummis. 8 p.m. at Beyond Baroque.
Sunday 3/19: Ron Fassler discusses and signs Up in the Cheap Seats: A Historical Memoir of Broadway. 3 p.m. at Diesel Brentwood.
Joan Juliet Buck discusses and signs The Price of Illusion: A Memoir. 4 p.m. at Book Soup.
Garth Nix presents and signs Frogkisser! 4 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Audrey Coulthurst presents Of Fire and Stars, and Mary McCoy launches her new book, Camp So-And-So. 4:30 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.
Deepak Unnikrishnan reads from his debut novel Temporary People. 5 p.m. at Skylight Books.
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