Literary events this week: Child is father to the man
A selection of this week's literary events:
Monday, Jan. 12: Spend an hour or so with Howard Rosenberg and Charles Feldman, authors of "No Time to Think: The Menace of Media Speed in the 24-Hour News Cycle". They appear together at Vroman's in Pasadena at 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 13: Al Kooper, founder of Blood Sweat & Tears reads and signs his irreverent reissued memoir "Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards" at Book Soup at 7 p.m. Kooper also played in Dylan's backing band when he went electric at Newport in 1965, was an A&R guy at Columbia who signed the Zombies and then, at MCA, signed Lynyrd Skynyrd. (He performs at McCabe's at 7 p.m. Sunday Jan. 11; tickets are $24.50.)
Wednesday, Jan. 14: Malcolm Gladwell will discuss his new book "Outliers" with Marketplace's Kai Ryssdal at Writer's Bloc -- but the event is sold out. A good alternative: Zocalo presents Matt Miller, the witty and even-tempered host of KCRW's Left, Right and Center at the Hammer Museum at 7 p.m. Miller's new book, "The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking to Unleash a New Prosperity" addresses "the threat that individuals, companies and the country face from the things we think we know."
Thursday, Jan. 15: Downtowners can get a lunchtime guided tour -- the last -- of the L.A. Public Library's exhibit L.A. Unfolded from co-curator Glen Creason. The exhibit, which closes next week, displays tourist guides, real estate maps, pictorials, topographic surveys and illustrations to demonstrate the city's changing definition of itself. All materials on exhibit are from the Los Angeles Public Library’s own map collection, one of the largest such collctions in the U.S. The tour begins at 12:15 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 17: Francesca Lia Block, author of the Weetzie Bat series for young adults, reads and signs "How to (Un)Cage a Girl," a new book of poems, at Barnes and Noble at the Grove at 2 p.m.
-- Carolyn Kellogg
