Monday 10/7: Author Jasmine Guillory discusses Royal Holiday, in conversation with The Right Swipe author Alisha Rai. 6 p.m. at LAPL Studio City.
Ryan Holiday discusses and signs Stillness Is the Key. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
James Glisson and Jennifer A. Watts discuss and sign Nineteen Nineteen. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Tuesday 10/8: Nick Flynn reads from his new book of poetry I Will Destroy You, with Kai Carlson-Wee. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Wednesday 10/9: Kim Renfro discusses and signs The Unofficial Guide to Game of Thrones. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Shea Serrano discusses his new book Movies (And Other Things). 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Ginny Hogan discusses and signs Toxic Femininity in the Workplace: Office Gender Politics Are a Battlefield. 8 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe.
Thursday 10/10: Kim Krizan discusses and signs Spy in the House of Anaïs Nin. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Launch party for The Performing Art of Therapy: Acting Insights and Techniques for Clinicians with Mark O’Connell, Phillip Ringstrom, and Robin Weigert. 7:30 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.
Leslie Jamison reads from her new essay collection Make It Scream, Make It Burn. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Tate Swindell, Eric Mingus, and others read from Jack Micheline’s posthumous collection, On Valencia Street. 8 p.m. at Beyond Baroque. $10/members free.
Friday 10/11: Kathryn Bowers and Barbara Natterson-Horowitz discuss and sign Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
Editor Robert Atwan presents and signs Best American Essays 2019. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
AJ Dungo discusses his debut graphic memoir In Waves, with Jamie Brisick. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Rob Fitterman and Kim Calder read from their poetry. 8 p.m. at the Poetic Research Bureau.
Susan Sonde reads from her newly released collection, The Arsonist. 8 p.m. at Beyond Baroque. $10/members free.
Saturday 10/12: Alan Paul and Andy Aledort discuss and sign Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan. 4 p.m. at Book Soup.
Lummox Press presents the first group reading of Lummox #8, featuring: Lynne Bronstein, Don Campbell (and Calokie), Jackie Chou, Kit Courter, Sharyl Collin, Alicia Viguer-Espert, Martina Gallegos, Friday Gretchen, Charles Harmon, Gil Hagen Hill, Marie Lecrivain, Mike Meloan, Linda Neal, Kevin Ridgeway, Lisa Segal, Nancy Shiffrin, Vachine, and Kelsey Bryan-Zwick. Hosted by RD Armstrong. 4 p.m., Beyond Baroque, $10/members free.
Mike Pearl discusses his debut nonfiction book The Day it Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans―and Other Possible Phenomena, with Brian Merchant. 5 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Sunday 10/13: Soap Box Poets open reading. Hosted by Jessica Wilson Cardenas. Sign-ups start at 1:45 p.m. at Beyond Baroque.
Cornelia Funke signs Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun. 4 p.m. at Dark Delicacies.
Jeanette Winterson reads from her new novel Frankissstein. 5 p.m. at Skylight Books.
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