Notable Los Angeles: 2/17–2/23

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Monday 2/17: Jeff Sharlet discusses and signs This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.

Charles Finch discusses and signs The Last Passenger. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.

Tuesday 2/18: 2020 Jean Burden Poetry Reading featuring Marilyn Chin. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with a buffet, program starts at 6:30 p.m. at Cal State LA‘s Golden Eagle Ballroom. Free, but RSVP here.

John Sayles discusses and signs Yellow Earth. 6:30 p.m. at Diesel Brentwood.

Joshua Hammer reads from and signs The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.

Dan Peres discusses and signs As Needed for Pain: A Memoir for Addiction. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.

Meg Gardiner discusses and signs The Dark Corners of the Night, in conversation with Steph Cha. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.

Kyle Chayka discusses his debut nonfiction book The Longing for Less, with Geoff Manaugh. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.

Wednesday 2/19: Graham Moore discusses and signs The Holdout. 6:30 p.m. at Diesel Brentwood.

Tara Schuster reads from and signs Buy Yourself the Fucking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who’s Been There. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.

Arthur Phillips discusses and signs The King at the Edge of the World. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.

Sherri Smith discusses and signs The Blossom and the Firefly. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.

Jenny Offill discusses her newest novel, Weather, with Nate Dimeo. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.

Thursday 2/20: Billy Mernit discusses and signs Writing the Romantic Comedy: From “cute Meet” to “joyous Defeat”: How to Write Screenplays That Sell. 6:30 p.m. at Diesel Brentwood.

Paul Zollo discusses and signs Conversations with Tom Petty. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.

Jon Wilkman discusses and signs Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.

James Quinn reads from and signs Nightshades of New Orleans. 7:30 p.m. at The Last Bookstore.

Emily Nemens reads from her debut novel, The Cactus League, with J. Ryan Stradal. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.

Friday 2/21: Amy Shira Teitel reads from and signs Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books.

Kiran Bhat discusses and signs we of the forsaken world… 7 p.m. at Book Soup.

Editor Steffie Nelson leads a panel discussion with Jori Finkel, Stacie Stukin, Sarah Tomlinson, Catherine Wagley, and Su Wu to discuss and sign Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing by Joan Didion’s Light. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.

Jenn Shapland discusses her debut nonfiction book, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, with Andy Campbell. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.

Saturday 2/22: Ebony Flowers discusses her debut graphic novel Hot Comb, with Taneka Stotts. 1 p.m. at Skylight Books.

Robert Desiderio discusses and signs The Occurrence. 4 p.m. at Book Soup.

Amy Shira Teitel discusses and signs Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight. 4 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.

Sunday 2/23: La Palabra presents Now That We Found Love: Marathon love poem reading and open mic. 2 p.m. at Avenue 50 Studio.

Jon Wilkman discusses and signs Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America. 3 p.m. at Diesel Brentwood.

Phil Baker discusses and signs To Feel the Music: A Songwriter’s Mission to Save High-Quality Audio. 3 p.m. at Diesel Del Mar.

Valyntina Grenier signs Fever Dream/Take Heart, Elena Karina Byrne signs No, Don’t, and Karen Kevorkian signs Quivira. 3 p.m. at Book Soup.

Rev. Jesus Garcia, DSS presents and signs The Dreams of a Master. Renee Morgan-Hampton presents and signs Guilty by Default. Tatiana Hughes presents Words of Wisdom, Volume 1, on behalf of Tatyana N. Mickushina. 4 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.

Katharine Coldiron reads from her debut novella, Ceremonials, with Christopher Higgs. 5 p.m. at Skylight Books.

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Xach Fromson is a native Angeleno and the co-host/co-founder of Shades & Shadows, a sci-fi/fantasy/horror/etc. reading series here in LA. He studied creative writing at California State University Northridge, where he worked on The Northridge Review. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California Riverside Palm Desert Low Residency program, and is finishing his first novel. He appeared at Dirty Laundry Lit's "Love Sucks" event in February 2013, and has stories published in "Halloween Tales" and "Winter Horror Days" from Omnium Gatherum press. And once, he slew a dragon. Follow him on Twitter @_mythogenesis_. More from this author →