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1 JULY 2015 — wednesday

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• Two Idiots Peddling Poetry presents Brendan Constantine and Mandy Kahn reading poetry by some of their favorite writers, readers at the open reading are encouraged to do the same, limit 3 poems in five minutes or 5 poems in three minutes, The Ugly Mug, 261 N. Glassell Avenue, Orange, 8:00 (www.poetryidiots.com)
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2 JULY 2015 — thursday

CENTRAL:
• A reading of New Mexico writers: fiction writer Johanna Debiase reads from her debut fabulist novella, Mama & the Hungry Hole, fiction writer and visual artist Linda Michel-Cassidy, and New York writer Carolyn Martone reads from her essays about her life in New Mexico, she is also author of UPSTATE, a television series about a stand-up comedienne with panic disorder, producer of "Lit Up Writers" in Los Angeles and Taos, New Mexico, a monthly live storytelling show; Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students and seniors, members free, 8:00 (www.beyondbaroque.org)
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• The Los Angeles Public Library presents a reading by Los Angeles Poet Laureate Luis Rodriguez, Always Running, Pacoima Branch Library, 13605 Van Nuys Blvd., Pacoima, 6:00 (213/612-0525, www.lapl.org)
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NORTH:
• The EP Foster Library hosts an Open Mic with "The Tour," featured readers Bruce Schmidt, Dane Baylis, and Chris Spangenberg, as part of its weekly poetry series hosted by Phil Taggart, Topping Room, EP Foster Library, 651 East Main Street, Ventura, 7:30 (805/648-2716, www.vencolibrary.org)
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3 JULY 2015 — friday

CENTRAL:
• Johanna DeBiase with Linda Michel-Cassidy presents and signs Mama & the Hungry Hole, fourth book of the Wordcraft of Oregon Fabulist Novella Series, a narrative about a four-year-old girl that melds fairytales and realism, Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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4 JULY 2015 — saturday

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5 JULY 2015 — sunday

CENTRAL:
• Beyond Baroque presents First Sunday monthly reading series, hosted by Steve Goldman, five-minute limit, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, suggested donation $5, sign up begins 4:45, reading 5:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
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NORTH:
• Poetry at the Steynberg presents a reading by Michelle Detorie, Michalle Gould, and Dorothy Buhrman, open reading follows, Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, 3:00 (steynberggallery.com)
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6 JULY 2015 — monday

CENTRAL:
• West Hollywood
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7 JULY 2015 — tuesday

CENTRAL:
• Book launch for Wesley Chu’s latest science fiction novel, Time Salvager, plus a conversation with fellow science fiction writer Stephen Blackmoore, The Last Bookstore, 453 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles, 7:00 (lastbookstorela.com)
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• The Poetry Society of America and Red Hen Press present a reading of East and West Coast poets featuring Dean Kostos, Mahogany L. Browne, and Richard Silken, moderated by Charif Shanahan, Beach=Culture at the Annenberg Community Beach House, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, free online Eventbrite reservations required, arrive fifteen minutes early, parking 6:30-7:30 (310/458-4904, smbeachculture@gmail.com, annenbergbeachhouse.com )
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• Edan Lepucki reads from and signs her debut novel, California, Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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• The Redondo Poets host a weekly poetry reading, always includes an open mic, Coffee Cartel, 1820 S. Catalina Avenue, Redondo Beach, California, 8:10 (310/316-6554)
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8 JULY 2015 — wednesday

CENTRAL:
• WEHO Reads and Book Soup present Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim reading from their self-help book Tim and Eric's Zone Theory: 7 Easy Steps to Achieve a Perfect Life, Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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9 JULY 2015 — thursday

CENTRAL:
• Book launch for Marc Bell, Stroppy, a graphic novel, and Anders Nilsen, Poetry is Useless, a book of comics, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, 7:30 (www.skylightbooks.com)
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• The Library Foundation of Los Angeles's ALOUD series presents, "Love, Los Angeles: A Conversation in Words and Images," two Los Angeles natives, journalist and essayist Lynell George and poet, writer, and artist Marisela Norte sharing their essays and photography reflecting their intimate observations of the city, Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library, 630 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles, 7:15 (213/228-7000, lfla.org)
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NORTH:
• The EP Foster Library presents a featured reading by Holaday Mason at its weekly poetry series hosted by Phil Taggart, an open mic follows, Topping Room, EP Foster Library, 651 East Main Street, Ventura, 7:30 (805/648-2716 www.vencolibrary.org)
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10 JULY 2015 — friday

CENTRAL:
• Lisa Jakub reads from her memoir You Look Like That Girl: A Child Actor Stops Pretending and Finally Grows Up, on deciding to stop acting after making over forty movies by the time she was twenty-two, Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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• "Forbidden Pleasures: Poetry in Translation," poet/translator Stephen Kessler reads from Forbidden Pleasures: New Selected Poems 1924-1949 by Luis Cernuda, and translator Suzanne Jill Levine reads from Tides by Pedro Xavier Solís Cuadra, this is a bilingual reading with poet and critic Jorge Luis Castillo, who currently teaches at UCSB, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students and seniors, members free, 8:00 (www.beyondbaroque.org)
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11 JULY 2015 — saturday

CENTRAL:
• Poetry reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout and Jeanette Clough, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students and seniors, members free, 8:00 (www.beyondbaroque.org)
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• Aqueous Books, Prick of the Spindle, and Ampersand Books present short story writer Garrett Socol, Gathered Here Together; Nathan Deuel, Friday Was the Bomb: Five Years in the Middle East; novelist Jim Ruland, Forest of Fortune; short story and flash fiction writer James Claffey, Blood a Cold Blue, and short story writer Ron Parsons, The Sense of Touch, Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 4:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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12 JULY 2015 — sunday

CENTRAL:
• Cathy Curtis reads from her biography, Grace Hartigan, Painter, on the world-famous, self-taught American painter, Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 4:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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• The New Short Fiction Series features Village Voice fellow Sandy Yang's "How To Tell Her," presented by actors Claudia Choi, Sylvia Kwan, Jennifer Soo, and Sally Shore, The Federal Bar, 5303 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, $12 advance purchase through July 10/$15 at door as available, cash only, doors open 6:00 for dining, event 7:00 (tickets and program info: 866/811-4111, www.newshortfictionseries.com)
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• Open reading for one and all, five-minute limit, hosted by Jessica Wilson, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free but donations welcome, sign up begins 1:45, reading 2:00 (www.beyondbaroque.org)
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13 JULY 2015 — monday

CENTRAL:
• Bridget Foley reads from Hugo & Rose, about a suburban woman who meets her childhood imaginary friend in real life: a man who shared her adventures on an imaginary island, Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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• Cadence Collective presents a monthly poetry party with featured guests Ben Trigg of Two Idiots Peddling Poetry and LeAnne Hunt, who is a regular at the Ugly Mug readings, followed by an open mic, hosted by Murray Thomas and Sarah Thursday, Gatsby Books, 5535 E. Spring Street, Long Beach, 7:00 (562/208-5862, gatsbybooks.com)
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14 JULY 2015 — tuesday

CENTRAL:
• ALOUD presents a panel discussion led by Josh Kun on food justice in Los Angeles, based on his new book To Live and Dine in L.A.: Menus and the Making of the Modern City, a compilation of the L.A. Public Library's menu collection and an analysis of the disparity of food access in Los Angeles between neighborhoods with never-ending streams of trendy restaurants and food deserts where the nearest place to buy a vegetable may be miles away, Mark Taper Auditorium, Los Angeles Central Library, 630 W. 5th Street, free, this program is closed to reservations, check website for standby, Los Angeles, 7:15 (lfla.org)
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• Andrew Meredith reads from The Removers, about a father and son forced together as "removers," the people who take bodies away from their place of death, Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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• The Redondo Poets host a weekly poetry reading, always includes an open mic, Coffee Cartel, 1820 S. Catalina Avenue, Redondo Beach, California, 8:10 (310/316-6554)
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15 JULY 2015 — wednesday

CENTRAL:
• Miranda Banks presents and signs The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild, a comprehensive look at New York and Hollywood writers with interviews with over fifty writers including Mel Brooks, Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, and Frank Pierson, Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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16 JULY 2015 — thursday

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17 JULY 2015 — friday

CENTRAL:
• Megan Kimble reads from and signs her memoir Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food, about her year of making her own food straight from the origin, down to slaughtering a sheep and extracting salt from the sea, Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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• Todd Swindell, editor of I Am Going to Fly Through Glass: Selected Poems of Harold Norse, and S.A. Griffin read from the poetry of Harold Norse, accompanied by video clips, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students and seniors, members free, 8:00 (www.beyondbaroque.org)
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18 JULY 2015 — saturday

CENTRAL:
• Cyrus Copeland reads from and signs his memoir Off the Radar: A Father's Secret, a Mother's Heroism, and a Son's Quest, about hunting down the truth about his father's arrest at the same time as the hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy in Iran, Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 4:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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• Gerry Fialka screens rare literature films to celebrate The Lit Show, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free but donations appreciated, 8:00 (www.beyondbaroque.org)
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• Robert Romanyshyn and Brian Michael Tracy discuss the healing power of language, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students and seniors, members free, 4:00 (www.beyondbaroque.org)
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• Andi Teran reads from her debut novel Ana of California, about a girl of Mexican heritage from East Los Angeles who, after ruining her relationships with many foster families chooses to go to a farm trainee program until she can file for emancipation, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, 5:00 (www.skylightbooks.com)
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19 JULY 2015 — sunday

CENTRAL:
• Sharon Rizk and Radomir Votech Luza perform a collaboration with the premise of two childhood friends communicating through letters over a fifteen-year span, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $5 donation, 8:00 (www.beyondbaroque.org)
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• Mike Sonksen hosts young readers and established readers, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $5 donation, 8:00 (www.beyondbaroque.org)
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• Book Soup presents Corey Taylor reading from You're Making Me Hate You, a humorous, no-punches-pulled critique of society, and Randy Blythe reads from Dark Days: A Memoir, about his thirty-seven-day incarceration in Prague for pushing a nineteen-year-old Lamb of God fan when he mounted the stage, the fan fell and ultimately died; to get books signed, attendees must purchase at least one copy of the author's most recent title from Book Soup, for each book purchased, customers may bring three from home, receipts will be checked in the signing line, Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 4:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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NORTH:
• Corners of the Mouth monthly poetry reading presents featured poets Jackson Wheeler, Coco DeCasscza, and Sarah Thursday, open reading follows, Linnaea's Café, 1110 Garden Street, San Luis Obispo, 7:00 (www.languageofthesoul.org)
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20 JULY 2015 — monday

CENTRAL:
• Boze Hadleigh reads from his book Doggerel, Catnaps, Scapegoats, Foxtrots, and Horse Feathers—Splendid Animal Words and Phrases, a collection of histories of animal words with unique meanings, Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (http://www.booksoup.com)
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21 JULY 2015 — tuesday

CENTRAL:
• Shane Kuhn reads from his comic thriller Hostile Takeover, the follow-up to The Intern's Handbook, which sees John Lago, having married his nemesis, returning to the role of intern to protect Human Resources, Inc., Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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22 JULY 2015 — wednesday

CENTRAL:
• PEN Center USA presents a reading by the 2015 Emerging Voices Fellows, Oktavi Allison, Kenneth D. Capers, Michelle Meyers, Erik Rodgers, and Nancy Lynée Woo, this reading culminates their 2015 fellowships, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, 7:30 (www.hammer.ucla.edu)
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• Book Soup presents a reading by Cari Beauchamp from My First Time in Hollywood, her collection of stories by actors, directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, and editors who remember their first visits to Hollywood, Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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23 JULY 2015 — thursday

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24 JULY 2015 — friday

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25 JULY 2015 — saturday

CENTRAL:
• Venice
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26 JULY 2015 — sunday

CENTRAL:
• A Celebration of the life and work of Southern California poet and educator Steve Kowit (1938-2015), Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free to all, 2:00-5:00 (www.beyondbaroque.org)
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• Nebraska Girl Open Reading with featured reader to be announced, five-minute limit, hosted by Wyatt Underwood and Melissa Alvarado, Mike Kelley Gallery, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $5, sign up 1:45, reading 2:00 (www.beyondbaroque.org)
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• Poetry reading celebrating the Dublin Poetry Review: Eigse Atha Cliath, an international journal of poetry, with Stephen Yenser, Elena Karina Byrne, Ming Di, John Fitzgerald, and Hélène Cardona, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students and seniors, members free, 4:00 (www.beyondbaroque.org)
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27 JULY 2015 — monday

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28 JULY 2015 — tuesday

CENTRAL:
• Book Soup presents a reading by Hilary Liftin from her novel, Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper, the author imagines the role of ghostwriter to create a fictional tell-all "by" a Hollywood star with a recently broken tabloid marriage, Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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• Studio City Branch Library presents an adult book club discussion of Patricia Cornwell's Body Farm, Studio City Branch Library, 12511 Moorpark Street, Studio City, 6:30 (818/755-7873, www.lapl.org)
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29 JULY 2015 — wednesday

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30 JULY 2015 — thursday

CENTRAL:
• Book Soup presents a reading by Justine Gubar from Fanaticus: Mischief and Madness in the Modern Sports Fan, her analysis of violence among sports fans, beginning with the 2011 49ers/Raiders matchup, Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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31 JULY 2015 — friday

CENTRAL:
• Victoria Namkung reads from her novel, The Things We Tell Ourselves, about the reappearance, twenty years after an affair between a budding journalist and an Australia TV reporter, of photos that threaten the now-established journalist, Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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