Last time I attended the L.A. Times Festival of Books I helped Sean Doolittle and Victor Gischler break into a pool, got a wicked sunburn, and almost scored an underaged California trophy wife. God knows what'll happen this time around. If you're around this weekend, here's where you'll be able to find me:Friday Night (4/23): The Mystery Bookstore's Pre-Fest Party (1036-C Broxton Avenue). I'll be there probably around 6:30 or 7, depending on my flight/traffic from LAX. I think I booked the exact same flight three years ago, and I showed up at the party slight dazed. Which later led to the pool break-in. So, fair warning.
Sunday (4/25): I'll be signing at the Mystery Bookstore's booth (#411) at noon, along with Eric Beetner, Reed Farrel Coleman, Gar Anthony Haywood (who recently started blogging, by the way), Attica Locke and Gary Phillips. You'll probably also see me hanging around the booth area for much of the morning. And wearing sunscreen this time.
I'm also hoping to take Esotouric's cool-sounding Charles Bukowski bus tour ("Haunts of a Dirty Old Man") on Saturday afternoon. I've heard nothing but great things about these tours, and I say you haven't really seen a city until you've nuzzled its soft underbelly.
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I hope you've been flexing your signing hand because I am going to hit you up for your signature on multiple books. I may even bring my Secret Dead Men copy with me to the booth.
You are brown bagging it for the bus tour, no?
Looking forward to hanging out with you, Eric.
Kieran: Is that code for something?
Thanks for posting your FoB schedule, Duane. I will be catching up with you at Friday's bookstore party. That Charles Bukowski bus tour sounds so cool. Thanks for this.
I just thought, you know, couple of cans of Schlitz, paper sacks, it is Bukowski tour...
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