Book Soup welcomes Gregory Poirier, screenwriter and novelist, presenting A Thousand Cuts: A Max Starkey Thriller, in conversation with Eli Frankel, in-store, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, free, 7:00 pm (RSVP required: booksoup.com/event/2026-05-08/gregory-poirier)
Fourth Saturdays Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a reading by Nancy Lynée Woo, poet and teaching artist, and Ron Koertge, Pandora's Kitchen: Poems, award-winning poet and young adult novelist, Helen Renwick Library, 208 North Harvard Avenue, Claremont, free, 2:00 pm (www.claremontlibrary.org/monthly-poetry-readings.html)