Sam Quinones discusses & signs Our Lady of the Angels: The Virgin of Guadalupe on the Walls of Los Angeles

Ask ten people who have lived here twenty years to explain Los Angeles and you get ten confident answers that do not overlap anywhere. That is the condition of the place — everyone is an expert on the two square miles they know and a tourist everywhere else. Long-form reporting on this city draws a specific reader: the person who keeps a mental list of the neighborhoods they have not understood yet, who reads about a street they have driven a thousand times and finds out what was happening on it. A Monday-night talk pulls that reader out of the house at the start of a workweek, which is a real filter — the people who show up on a Monday are the ones who actually care. Expect long questions from the audience and longer answers. Southern California's oldest and largest independent bookstore, holding down Colorado Boulevard since 1894. A Monday, 7:00pm, at the very end of August. Ticketed.