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23 JANUARY 2018 — tuesday

24 JANUARY 2018 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Richard Blade discusses and signs World in My Eyes: The Autobiography, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, free, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com/event)

25 JANUARY 2018 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • A celebratory reading of Eddie Krumble is the Clapper in support of Dito Montiel's new film The Clapper, which is based on the book, Dito Montiel will be joined by fellow authors Louis Cannizzarro To My Sweetheart and Shawna Kenney I Was a Teenage Dominatrix, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, free, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com/event)
  • Literary Women Book Club, January discussion: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet, new members welcome, meets every fourth Thursday, Gatsby Books, 5535 East Spring Street, Long Beach, free, 7:00 (gatsbybooks.com/artists)
    NORTH:
  • EP Foster Library presents a poetry reading by Catherine Abbey Hodges, Raft of Days: Poems, at its weekly series hosted by Phil Taggart, Poet Laureate of Ventura County, open mic follows, share your own work, EP Foster Library in the Topping Room, 651 E. Main Street, Ventura, free and open to the public, 7:30-9:00 (805/648-2716, www.vencolibrary.org)

26 JANUARY 2018 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Writers and artists Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mimi Pond, and Jonathan Santlofer discuss It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art, featuring work from more than thirty-five contemporary authors, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:30 (www.skylightbooks.com/event)
  • Beyond Baroque presents the 8th annual Poetry of Venice Photography panel discussion by award-winning Venice Photographers, hosted by paramedia ecologist Gerry Fialka, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free, panel discussion 2:00-4:00, gallery opening 4:00-6:00 (www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • Dan Vining discusses and signs NightSun, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, free, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com/event)

27 JANUARY 2018 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Open Mic featuring poets Wendy Rainey and Suzanne O'Connell, Gatsby Books, 5535 East Spring Street, Long Beach, free, 5:00 (gatsbybooks.com/artists)
    SOUTH:
  • Evan Kindley, Questionnaire, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Personal Stereo, and Anna Leahy, Tumor, discuss their books in the Object Lessons Series, Skylight Books, 1818 N Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 5:00 ()
  • Nebraska Girl Open Reading, hosted by Wyatt Underwood, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free/donations welcome, sign up 1:30, reading 2:00 (www.beyondbaroque.org)

28 JANUARY 2018 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Giving My Self to the Wind book launch party with author Kathryn Atkins, Gatsby Books, 5535 East Spring Street, Long Beach, free, 3:00 (gatsbybooks.com/artists)
  • Walt Disney Studios award-winning animators Paul Briggs and Benson Shum, present their picture books, Catch My Breath and Holly's Day at the Pool, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 5:00 (www.skylightbooks.com/event)
  • 15th Annual Venice Film Fest includes a deep history of films made in Venice, California, and happenings at the legendary Venice West Gallery, the birthplace of the So Cal Beats, with live performances, hosted by Gerry Fialka, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free/donations welcome, 7:00 (www.beyondbaroque.org)

29 JANUARY 2018 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Charity Tillemann-Dick discusses and signs The Encore: A Memoir in Three Acts, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, free, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com/event)

30 JANUARY 2018 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Warner Loughlin discusses and signs The Warner Loughlin Technique: An Acting Revolution, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, free, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com/event)

31 JANUARY 2018 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Min Jin Lee, in conversation with Karen Grigsby Bates from NPR, discusses and signs Pachinko, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, free, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com/event)
  • Nick Nolte discusses and signs his memoir Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines, Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, $29.00 + tax (includes one entry and one book copy), $38.00 + tax (includes two entries and one book copy), 8:00 (www.booksoup.com/event)
  • ALOUD presents Exiled from Cairo: Humor and Dissent with satirist Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring, Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, free, 7:30 (dola.com/venues/mark-taper-auditorium-central-library)

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