The L.A. Weekly film critic turned novelist discusses her new thriller, Wildcat Play, with her ex-husband—and master of L.A. crime fiction—James Ellroy. More information.

The L.A. writer reads and signs his latest book, The Angry Buddhist, about a scandal-filled local election in Palm Springs. More information.

What if your terminally ill best friend asks you to marry her husband and raise her daughter? That's the premise of L.A.-based Ribon's new book, You Take It From Here, which she'll be discussing and signing at this event. More information.

Look for parallels as the two Los Angeles writers discuss and sign their new books. The Shyster's Daughter by Priamos is a memoir about her father, while Johnson's Elsewhere, California is a coming-of-age story set in Los Angeles. More information.

Best known as a comics artist and the editor of Kramer’s Ergot, Sammy Harkham discusses and signs an anthology of his short stories, Everything Together.  More Information. 

Adrian Tomine won’t just discuss and sign his latest comics collection, New York Drawings. He’ll lead a slide show based on it. More Information. 

Local writer Marisa Silver reads from Mary Coin, her first novel since the acclaimed The God of War. Her latest offers a fictionalized look at the woman whose image Dorothea Lange captured in her iconic "Migrant Mother" photograph. More information.    

He’s a walking Wikipedia of popular culture who dishes out sardonic wit about rock and roll suicides and the secret world of sports. Looking at life on the dark side, he’ll read from his new collection of essays, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined). More information.

The son of Mel Brooks also wrote the best-selling World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, which became a box-office hit starring Brad Pitt. His latest, the graphic novel The Harlem Hellfighters, tackles a more serious topic: a platoon of African American infantrymen who fought in World War II. More information