L.A. book news: We’ve got it going on
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Tomorrow, actor Robert Wagner will do a double-header for his memoir, ‘Pieces of My Heart,’ signing at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena at noon and Book Soup in West Hollywood at 5 p.m.
Also Saturday afternoon, artist Shepard Fairey will sign copies of his new book, ‘E Pluribus Venom,’ at Los Angeles’ La Luz de Jesus Gallery (from 4 to 6 p.m.). The book showcases work that was included in his massive 2007 exhibit in New York.
Sunday is the West Hollywood Book Fair, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. More than 400 authors will read and talk and sign, and the event — in West Hollywood Park — is compact enough to make sure that you don’t miss a single booth. If you’re there and want to see what a real live blogger looks like (when she’s not in her pajamas), I’ll be on a panel about literary culture in Los Angeles at 3 p.m, moderated by LA Times Books editor David L. Ulin.
Also on Sunday — sadly, for me, at 3 p.m. — Sean Wilsey and Matt Weiland, the editors of the new anthology ‘State by State’ will appear at Book Soup with filmmaker Alexander Payne (‘Sideways’), who contributed the book’s essay on Nebraska.
On Sunday evening, also at Book Soup, musician Juliana Hatfield will sign her memoir ‘When I Grow Up’ at 7.
Across town, author and artist Zak Smith (‘Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon’s Novel Gravity’s Rainbow’) and others appear at the Vermin on the Mount reading series at Chinatown’s Mountain Bar, where festivities get underway at 8 p.m.
Coming up next week in San Francisco — close enough for determined Angelenos to make plans to attend — Litquake kicks off a week from tonight. Opening night festivities include tales of being a sucker, from Jonathan Ames, Neal Pollack, Cintra Wilson, Will Durst and more. $25 gets you in the door; $100 gets you into the VIP open-bar reception. Many of the events that follow are free, including appearances by Curtis Sittenfeld, Dennis Lehane and Rudy Rucker.
Take that, New York.
— Carolyn Kellogg
