Blogging.la » [Aloud] at Central Library http://blogging.la Lizard people dude. Seriously. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:09:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Books a Poppin’ http://blogging.la/2009/10/13/books-a-poppin/ http://blogging.la/2009/10/13/books-a-poppin/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:28:18 +0000 Travis Koplow http://la.metblogs.com/?p=35164
greenkosi's photo used via Creative Commons

greenkosi's photo used via Creative Commons

Yes, I know it’s raining and that means a stay-at-home night for some number of residents who harbor an overwhelming fear of precipitation. For those of you among the more adventurous, however, this is a great literary night. Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and more recently of Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son,  is giving a talk at the Central Library, and noir genius James Ellroy is presenting and signing his new novel, Blood’s a Rover, at Skylight. If that just whets your literary appetite, there’s more wordy goodness on Thursday when Wallace Shawn, who cowrote My Dinner with Andre and has just authored Essays, a book which promises to be more exciting than its title, talks with Bruce Wagner at Hammer and Jane Smiley signs her latest, her first novel for young readers, The Georges and the Jewels, at Borders Northridge. I admit I’m a first line fetishist, and Smiley’s novel satisfies. It begins like this, “Sometimes when you fall off your horse, you just don’t want to get right back on.” Amen, Jane.

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