This week in the literary world beholds a buffet of entertainment to satiate your intellectual cravings. A used book sale, tips of the eco-friendly persuasion, a lecture on black holes, and a poetry reading come ready-made with simple enough ingredients and enlivening outcomes a-plenty. Feast your senses upon this.

Used Book Sale | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 | 2:00 - 7:00 pm | Northridge Library - Map | Bring your canvas bags, paper bags, and/or cardboard boxes to cart home your favorites tales, novellas, and harlequin romances. Bet you can’t just have one. For more info, call (818) 886-3640.

• Book Signing | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 | 7:30 pm | Barnes & Noble at The Grove - Map | Just when you thought that eco-friendly wagon has passed you by (running on all-natural renewable fuels, of course): green guru Sophie Uliano presents and signs her new book, Gorgeously Green, well-equipped with even more ideas to go green for less green. Click here for some inspiration and practical ideas, then get yourself a John Hancock-ed copy for your personal library. For more info, call (323) 525-0270.
• The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics | Thursday, July 17, 2008 | 7:00 pm | Los Angeles Central Library - Map | Taken from his intriguing book of the same name, Lawrence Susskind (Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics), with K.C. Cole (science writer), will lecture on the element of physics and what exactly happens to objects that are ‘lost’ in the darkness of black holes - or rather, what happens when you challenge a known genius and force him to admit that he might have been wrong about his once-established findings. Click here for reservations; don’t be intimidated if you’re on stand-by. Your ticket will be at the door.
• Poetry Reading | Saturday, July 19, 2008 | 8:00 pm | $5.00 | Tropico de Nopal Gallery, Art Space - Map | Elena Minor, writer and editor of PALABRA: A Magazine of Chicano & Latino Literary Art, will take part in an evening of readings with fellow contributors William Archila, Mariana Dietl, Harry Gamboa Jr., Wendy Ortiz, Harold Terezón. For more info, call (213) 481-8112.

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