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17 JUNE 2018 — sunday

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18 JUNE 2018 — monday

CENTRAL:
• Monday Night Fiction Workshop with screenwriter, playwright, and short story author Barra Grant meets each week, drop in, bring two–three pages of your own writing for reading and discussion, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free, donation suggested, 7:30 (www.beyondbaroque.org/workshops.html)
  
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• Vroman's Bookstore and Alta Journal present Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich in a reading rom her new memoir, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, signing to follow, Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com/event/alexandria-marzano-lesnevich-discusses-and-signs-fact-body-murder-and-memoir)
  
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19 JUNE 2018 — tuesday

CENTRAL:
• Vroman's Bookstore and Alta Journal present Lauren Groff in a reading from her new novel, Florida, signing to follow, Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com/event/lauren-groff-discusses-and-signs-florida)
  
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• Arts and culture writer Dana Schwartz discusses her new book, Choose Your Own Disaster, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:30 (www.skylightbooks.com/event/2018-06)
  
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20 JUNE 2018 — wednesday

CENTRAL:
• American-Iranian novelist Porochista Khakpour reads from her new memoir, Sick, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:30 (www.skylightbooks.com/event/2018-06)
  
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21 JUNE 2018 — thursday

CENTRAL:
• Vroman's Bookstore and Alta Journal present novelist Rebecca Makkai reading from The Great Believers, signing to follow, Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com/event/rebecca-makkai-maggie-shipstead-discusses-and-signs-great-believers)
  
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22 JUNE 2018 — friday

CENTRAL:
• Vroman's Bookstore and Alta Journal present novelist Caroline Kepnes in a reading from Providence, and discussion with actress Lena Dunham, signing to follow, Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, $27, 7:00-8:30 (www.vromansbookstore.com/event/caroline-kepnes-lena-dunham-providence)
  
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• Writers Kai Wilson and Julia Hannafin host PLAY, a reading featuring the work of emerging writers on the subject of play, Beyond Baroque, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, free but donations appreciated, 8:00 (www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html)
  
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23 JUNE 2018 — saturday

CENTRAL:
• Beyond Baroque presents a two-part workshop with poet Dorothy Barresi, American Fanatics, that is focused on "aboutness" or, more specifically, overturning "aboutness," Beyond Baroque, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, $50 general, $35 members, $15 auditors, limited to fifteen participants, 11:00 a.m.-3:00 (www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html)
  
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NORTH:
• The Jackson Wheeler Series 2018 presents poets Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Mary Ann McFadden, Carnegie Art Museum, 424 South C Street, Oxnard, $4/members free/$2 seniors/$3 students and children, 6:00 (www.carnegieam.org)
  
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24 JUNE 2018 — sunday

CENTRAL:
• Fiction writer Michael Hughes reads from his new novel, Inland Intrigue, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 5:00 (www.skylightbooks.com/event/2018-06)
  
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25 JUNE 2018 — monday

CENTRAL:
• Vroman's Bookstore and Alta Journal present journalist Ken Bensinger discussing his new book, Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal, signing to follow, Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com/event/ken-bensinger-discusses-and-signs-red-card-how-us-blew-whistle-worlds-biggest-sports-scandal)
  
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• Monday Night Fiction Workshop with screenwriter, playwright, and short story author Barra Grant meets each week, drop in, bring two–three pages of your own writing for reading and discussion, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free, donation suggested, 7:30 (www.beyondbaroque.org/workshops.html)
  
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26 JUNE 2018 — tuesday

CENTRAL:
• Vroman's Bookstore and Alta Journal present novelist Lydia Millet reading from Fight No More: Stories, signing to follow, Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com/event/lydia-millet-discusses-and-signs-fight-no-more-stories)
  
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27 JUNE 2018 — wednesday

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28 JUNE 2018 — thursday

CENTRAL:
• Novelist Glen David Gold reads from his new memoir, I Will Be Complete: A Memoir, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:30 (www.skylightbooks.com/event/2018-06)
  
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• Dan Pfeiffer discusses the subject of his book, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump, with Pod Saves America co-hosts Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor, Wilshire Ebell Theater, 4401 West 8th Street, Los Angeles, $52 ticket includes a copy of Yes We (Still) Can, 8:00 (www.writersblocpresents.com/main/dan-pfeiffer)
  
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• Vroman's Bookstore and Alta Journal present David Sedaris for a discussion on his new collection of personal essays, Calypso, signing to follow, no photography or video, Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, admission $28, book signing only is also $28, 6:00-9:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com/event/david-sedaris-presents-signs-calypso)
  
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29 JUNE 2018 — friday

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30 JUNE 2018 — saturday

CENTRAL:
• Poet RD Armstrong reads from and discusses his new collection of poetry, Orphaned Words: Forgotten Poems and a Haphazard Life, with Brendan Constantine, Letter to Guns, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students, seniors, members free, 4:00 (www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html)
  
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