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_.
Monday 3/7: Editor Meredith Maran and guests discuss and sign Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature. 7 p.m. at…
Monday 2/29: It’s Leap Day! Fun fact: without leap days, today would be July 16, 2017, and we’d be that much closer to Episode VIII. Alas. PEN Center USA presents…
Monday 2/22: Ethan Canin discusses and signs A Doubter’s Almanac. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Amy Shira Teitel discusses and signs Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight…
Monday 2/15: Maylis De Kerangal presents and signs The Heart. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Alexander Chee and Noël Alumit read and discuss their works as part of Pen Center…
Monday 2/8: Pierce Brown, with Natasha Polis (aka Tashapolis), discusses and signs Morning Star (Red Rising Trilogy #3). 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Ben Ratliff discusses his book Every Song Ever…
Monday 2/1: Elizabeth McKenzie discusses and signs The Portable Veblen. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Lux Alani discusses and signs Little Vanilla Book: S&M Wisdom to Improve Your Everyday Life.…
Monday 1/25: John Wilder discusses and signs Nobody Dies in Hollywood. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. PEN Center USA presents an evening with Viet Thanh Nguyen, signing The Sympathizer and…
Monday 1/18: It’s MLK Jr. Day. You have the day off. So does everybody else. Tuesday 1/19: THE RwIrGiHtTe Read presents Esther Cohen and Aroho2015 Ladies, with special guest William Hawkins.…
Monday 1/11: Kelsey Miller discusses and signs Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Jack Grisham and Patrick O’Neil present and…
Welcome back! While some of us may be trying to make those 5s look like 6s every time we write the year, our favorite bookstores and reading events are back at…
Monday 11/23: Phil Cousineau discusses and signs The Books of Roads: Travel Stories from Michigan to Marrakech. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Alex Honnold discusses and signs Alone on the…
Monday 11/16: PEN Center USA presents the 25th Annual Literary Awards Festival! Cocktail reception at 6 p.m., Awards Dinner and Program at 7:30 p.m. at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Tickets available…