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22 APRIL 2013 — monday

CENTRAL:
• Peggy Riley reads from her novel Amity & Sorrow, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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23 APRIL 2013 — tuesday

CENTRAL:
• Cobalt Poets presents a featured reading by Daniel Romo, plus open reading, Cobalt Café, 22047 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, free, doors open 8:30, reading 9:00 (Café: 818/348-3789, poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
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• Jen Kirkman reads from her memoir, I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales from a Happy Life Without Kids, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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• Zocalo Public Square features Shannon K. O'Neil, presenting her bookTwo Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead, The RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, 7:30 (www.rand.org)
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• Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem, by Cecilia Woloch, a multimedia performance in words, images, music and dance, with Flamenco music and dance by José Cortés, Ethan Margolis, and Cihtli Ocampo celebrating the lyric fire of the Gypsy spirit, the evening will be introduced by Los Angeles Poet Laureate Eloise Klein Healy, a discussion follows moderated by Stephen Smith, executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation, with Romani activist and scholar Dr. Ian Hancock, Bovard Auditorium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, free but reservations required, 7:00 (rsvp: www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices)
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24 APRIL 2013 — wednesday

CENTRAL:
• "From Funnybooks to Graphic Novels," a presentation and signing by cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez, Marble Season, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, 7:30 (www.skylightbooks.com)
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• Richard Belzer presents and signs Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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25 APRIL 2013 — thursday

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26 APRIL 2013 — friday

CENTRAL:
• Black Lawrence Press: West Coast Prose and Poetry reading features fiction writer Elizabeth Cantwell, novelist Tracy DeBrincat, Michael Hemmingson, Frank Montesonti, The Lost Girl, James Morrison, co-founder of Bat City Review, Jessica Piazza, and poet Sarah Suzor, Beyond Baroque Literary/Art Center, 681 Venice Boulevard, Venice, $10/$6 student, seniors, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
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27 APRIL 2013 — saturday

CENTRAL:
• "The Holy Barbarians: The Beat Scene In Los Angeles, 1950-2013," is a reading by beat and post-beat poets including Pegarty Long, Steve Abee, King Planet, Doug Knott, The Aware Wolves, Robert Branaman, and Frankie Rios, co-sponsored by the UCLA Library, hosted by S.A. Griffin, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 student, seniors, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
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• An evening with jazz comedian David Zasloff, monologues on money, outer space, art and negative thinking while accompanying himself on the shofar, Japanese shakuhachi flute, percussion, and autoharp, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 student, seniors, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
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28 APRIL 2013 — sunday

CENTRAL:
• The Funny Man: S.J. Perelman, a two-act solo play featuring distinguished actor Alan Openheimer, (Murphy Brown, Star Trek, Law and Order), as famed humorist S.J. Perelman, writer for Marxist Brothers, Mike Todd, and New York Magazine, two hours, including fifteen-minute intermission, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 student, seniors, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
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• Sharon Venezio reads from her debut poetry collection, The Silence Of Doorways, guest readers include poets Suzanne Lummis, Chad Sweeney, Parable of Hide and Seek, and poet and fiction writer Terry Wolverton, Stealing Angel, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 student, seniors, 4:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
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29 APRIL 2013 — monday

CENTRAL:
• Tosh Berman, Sparks-Tastic: Twenty-One Nights with Sparks in London, a memoir of traveling through London with the musical group Sparks, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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30 APRIL 2013 — tuesday

CENTRAL:
• Red Hen Press presents a poetry reading by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise, winner of the 2010 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, judged by Claudia Rankine, Armory Center for the Arts, 145 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, free/$5 donation, 7:00 (626/792-5101, redhen.org)
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• Cobalt Poets presents Los Angeles Poet Laureate Eloise Klein Healy, A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings, Cobalt Café, 22047 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, free, doors open 8:30, reading 9:00 (Café: 818/348-3789, poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
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• Rudolph Herzog presents and signs A Short History of Nuclear Folly: Mad Scientists, Dithering Nazis, Lost Nukes, and Catastrophic Cover-Ups, a sardonic people's history of atomic blunders and near-misses, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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• L.A. noir mystery reading by Steph Cha, Follow Her Home, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, 7:30 (www.skylightbooks.com)
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