Notable Los Angeles: 7/8–7/14
Monday 7/8: Weiko Lin discusses and signs Crazy Screenwriting Secrets: How to Capture a Global Audience. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Rob Zabrecky reads from his memoir, Strange Cures. With Michelle Carr. 7:30 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe.
Live New Departures: Michael Horovitz and friends. 8 p.m. at Beyond Baroque. $10/members free.
Tuesday 7/9: Michael Werner and Peter Eisenhardt, in conversation with Dr. Erik Conway, discuss and sign More Things in the Heavens: How Infrared Astronomy Is Expanding Our View of the Universe. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
Claudia D. Hernández reads from her debut memoir Knitting the Fog, with Josie Méndez Negrete. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Book Soup presents Linda Holmes, in conversation with Sam Sanders, discussing and signing Evvie Drake Starts Over. 8 p.m. at the Skirball Cultural Center. Tickets are $28 here.
J.S. Breukelaar and Ben Loory read from their works. 8 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe.
Wednesday 7/10: Katharyn Blair, in conversation with Alexandra Monir, discusses and signs The Beckoning Shadow. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
An evening of poetry with Red Hen Press. Featuring Eloise Klein Healy, Ron Koertge, Kim Dower, and Francesca Bell. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Thursday 7/11: The Speculative Collective Salon featuring authors Jennifer Brody, Rachel A. Marks, and Neo Edmund. 6 p.m. at 1888 Center.
Scott Miller discusses and signs Management Mess to Leadership Success. 6:30 p.m. at Diesel Bookstore.
Gregg Segal presents and signs Daily Bread: What Kids Eat Around the World. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
McSweeney’s Issue #56 launch event! Featuring contributors Emerson Whitney, Jose Antonio Vargas, and Dantiel W. Moniz. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Friday 7/12: Tony Maietta and Jerry Torre discuss and sign The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens: A Memoir of the Beales, the Maysles Brothers, and Jacqueline Kennedy. 7 p.m. at Book Soup.
David Marlett launches his new novel American Red. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books.
Pelekinesis Press presents Tim Kirk, Tim Davis, and Rob Zabrecky reading from The Feral Boy Who Lives in Griffith Park. 8 p.m. at Beyond Baroque. $10/members free.
Saturday 7/13: Cindy Lin discusses and signs The Twelve. 2 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore.
C.M. Kushins discusses and signs Nothing’s Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon. 4 p.m. at Book Soup.
The Get Around: Sunset Reading with John Fukuda, Julia Ingalls, Noriko Nakada, Mary Portser, and Sandy Yang. Hosted by Dawna Kemper and presented with The Get Around – A Joint Mar Vista Art Walk + Venice Art Crawl. 5 p.m. at Venice Public Library.
Sunday 7/14: Soapbox Poets Open Reading. Hosted by Jessica Wilson Cardenas. Sign-ups start at 1:45 p.m. at Beyond Baroque.
Ed Rucker discusses and signs his new legal thriller Justice Makes a Killing. 3 p.m. at Diesel Bookstore.
Maia Kobabe, Sam Sattin, and Ian McGinty discuss and sign Gender Queer: A Memoir and Glint Book One: The Cloud Raiders. 4 p.m. at Book Soup.
Words Uncaged reading. Featuring Tobias Tubbs, George Sanchez, and Johana Diaz, hosted by Jose Cubias. 5 p.m. at Skylight Books.
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