l.a. independent bookstores
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Notable Los Angeles: 5/4–5/10
Monday 5/4: Marian Lindberg presents and signs The End of the Rainy Season: Discovering My Family’s Hidden Past in Brazil. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Speakeasy/Open Mic Night is your chance to give that thing you’ve been working on a…
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Notable Los Angeles: 4/20–4/26
Monday 4/20: Los Angeles LGBT Center and Book Soup presents Michelangelo Signorile in conversation with Alan Acosta, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, about Signorile’s latest book, It’s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning…
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Notable Los Angeles: 4/13–4/19
Monday 4/13: Chiquis Rivera signs Forgiveness: A Memoir. 6 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Courtney Maum discusses and signs I Am Having so Much Fun Here Without You. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 4/14: Simon Wroe discusses and signs Chop…
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Notable Los Angeles: 3/30–4/5
Monday 3/30: Garth Stein discusses and signs A Sudden Light. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Smith Henderson discusses and signs Fourth of July Creek. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Tuesday 3/31: Jacob Rubin discusses and signs The Poser. 7 p.m.…
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Notable Los Angeles: 3/23–3/29
Monday 3/23: When’s the last time you volunteered at 826LA? It’s probably been a while. You should fix that. Tuesday 3/24: A Night with Robert Crane & Christopher Fryer. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Wednesday 3/25: &Now Festival of New Writing…
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Notable Los Angeles: 3/16–3/22
Monday 3/16: Victoria Zackheim and contributors present and sign Faith: Essays from Believers, Agnostics, and Atheists. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Paul Beatty discusses his new novel The Sellout, together with Danzy Senna. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books. Nora Barrows-Friedman…
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Notable Los Angeles: 2/23–3/1
Monday 2/23: The Moth hosts their Los Angeles Grand Slam Championship! Doors at 6:30 p.m. at The Echoplex. $25 tickets here. Lisa Unger discusses and signs Crazy Love You. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Tuesday 2/24: Red Hen Press presents readings…
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Notable Los Angeles: 2/16–2/22
Monday 2/16: Boris Fishman discusses and signs A Replacement Life. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Tuesday 2/17: M.O. Walsh discusses and signs My Sunshine Away. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Sarah Gerard reads from her debut novel Binary Star. 7:30 p.m.…
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Notable Los Angeles: 2/9–2/15
Monday 2/9: Lucie Brock-Broido reads from her new book of poetry, Stay, Illusion. 4:30 p.m. at University of Southern California‘s Doheny Memorial Library, Room 233. Write Club LA presents: Chapter 34: Oscarbaters. Featuring readings by Lauren Kincheloe, Aemelia Scott, Dylan Brody,…
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Notable Los Angeles: 2/2–2/8
Monday 2/2: Black Hill Press presents Nate Ragnolia, Peppur Chambers, Veronica Bane, and our own Corrie Greathouse. With host Arianna Basco. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Alexandra Fuller discusses and signs Leaving Before the Rains Come. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. It’s…
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Notable Los Angeles: 1/26–2/1
Monday 1/26: Chad Sweeney and Jennifer K. Sweeney read from their new respective works. 4:30 p.m. at the Ide Room at USC. The Altar Collective release party for Volume VII. Featuring readings by Katelin Wagner, Kris Kidd, Franki Elliot, Christina…
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Notable Los Angeles: 1/19–1/25
Monday 1/19: It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Vivre le rêve! Tuesday 1/20: Jack Walker discusses and signs Doctor Blood Moon. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Wednesday 1/21: Marky Ramone discusses and signs Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a…