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Join NOW!Monday 6/22: Stephen Witt discusses and signs How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 6/23: Victoria Shorr discusses and signs Backlands. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Wednesday 6/24: Nina Ansary discusses and signs The Jewels of Allah: The […]
...moreMonday 5/11: Michael Buckley discusses and signs Undertow. 6:30 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Write Club Los Angeles presents Chapter 37: The Animal Inside. Featuring Marian Gonzalez, Kim Moreno, Nayeli Adorador-Knudsen, Bobby Gordon, Clara York, and Kirk Wilson. Hosted by Justin Welborn and Paula Killen. 7 p.m. at the Bootleg Theater. $10-20, pay what you can. […]
...moreMonday 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, Jeff Dorchen, Provvidenza Catalano, and Larry Dean Harris. Hosted by Justin Welborn, Paula Killen, and […]
...moreMonday 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 the first Monday of the month, which means it’s time for the Speakeasy! Open mic […]
...moreMonday 11/17: Cary Elwes presents and signs As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Timeless Infinite Light Press celebrates the release of Ghost Box by Emerson Whitney. Also featuring readings by CA Conrad, and Maggie Nelson. Doors at 7:30 p.m. at Studio 64. Adelle Waldman reads […]
...moreMonday 11/10: Justin Simien presents and signs Dear White People. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Matthew Gavin Frank discusses his book Preparing the Ghost, in conversation with David Ulin. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books. Tuesday 11/11: Bill Duke presents and signs Dark Girls. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Claudette Sutton discusses and signs Farewell, Aleppo: […]
...moreMonday 10/27: T. Jefferson Parker presents and signs Full Measure. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. The Moth presents the Los Angeles Grand Slam Championship! Doors at 7 p.m., show at 7:30 p.m. at The Echoplex. $20 presale or $21 at the door. 18+ event. Tuesday 10/28: Book Launch Celebration for the short fiction and poetry collection […]
...moreMonday 10/20: Joe Perry signs Rocks: My Life in and Out of Aerosmith. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Lauren Cobb reads from Boulevard Women. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books. Tuesday 10/21: Dan Jones presents and signs The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors. 7 p.m. at Book […]
...moreMonday 10/13: The L.A. Storytelling Festival presents Write Club Los Angeles. Chapter 30: Oktoberfist. Featuring Megan Mercier, Jeffrey Amos, Paula Killen, Jane Morris, Will Link, and Steve Connell. Hosted by Justin Welborn, Paula Killen, and Jeffrey Yosephus Dorchen. 7 p.m. at the Bootleg Theater. Pay what you can, $5 minimum. Abigail Haas and Elizabth Little present […]
...moreMonday 10/6: Stephin Merritt presents and signs 101 Two-Letter Words. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Joshilyn Jackson discusses and signs Someone Else’s Love Story. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Speakeasy/Open Mic Night for you to practice that piece you’ve been working on in front of your pets actual human beings. Signups start at 7:45 p.m., readings […]
...moreMonday 9/29: Steph Cha discusses and signs Beware Beware: A Juniper Song Mystery. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. David Bezmozgis reads from The Betrayers. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books. Tongue & Groove presents Eat Write, with readings by Lilliam Rivera, Brandon Jordan Brown, and Lisa Segal. There will also be an open mic potion of the […]
...moreIt’s Banned Books Week! Stand up for the freedom to read, write, and publish without censorship. Monday 9/22: June Melby presents and signs My Family and Other Hazards. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. DTLAB by Writ Large Press presents the hosts of Long Beach Poetry Festival reading their own poetry. 8 p.m. at Traxx. Tuesday 9/23: […]
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