Notable Los Angeles

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 Book Soup. Nat B. Read discusses and signs Speed Bumps…

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 their Emerging Voices Readings with Laila Lalami and Natashia Deon.…

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 Before NASA. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Tuesday 2/23: Cornell…

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 USA’s Emerging Voices series. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books. Tuesday…

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 with Alex Ross. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books. PEN Center…

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. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. It’s the first Monday of…

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 T. Geronimo Johnson, signing Welcome to Braggsville. 7 p.m. at…

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. Curated and hosted by Peggy Dobreer. 6:30 p.m. at Stories…

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 sign A Principle of Recovery and Gun, Needle, Spoon. 7…

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 it! It’s gonna be cold and wet this winter, and…

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 Wall. Presented by Vroman’s Bookstore. 7 p.m. at All Saint’s…

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 HERE, and support the amazing work that PEN Center USA…