The Learned Owl and Viva Bene Gourmet have put together a delightful event to welcome LA author Kim Grunenfelder.  Join us at Viva Bene on Thursday, June 22nd, at 7 p.m. to meet the author of "Love the Wine You're With" and enjoy wine samples and specialty snacks. 

New York Times bestselling author Amor Towles will discuss his latest novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, about a Russian aristocrat who is sentenced to house arrest in a luxury hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Kirkus calls the book “a nonstop pleasure brimming with charm, personal wisdom, and philosophic insight…This is a book in which the cruelties of the age can't begin to erase the glories of real human connection and the memories it leaves behind.

Bill King, owner and chief bamboo fly rod maker of Top Ten Tapers, will be at The Learned Owl Book Shop on Saturday, May 20th, from 1 to 3 p.m. with his new book, "Fishing Tips and Tales: A Collection of Short Stories".

King is dedicated to recreating authentic reproductions of the best and most famous bamboo fly rods ever designed in the last 135 years. He sells his creations all over the country for the price of a mid-level graphite fly rod. In his spare time, he fishes and writes fishing stories. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Susan Faludi will speak as part of the Libby Walker Women’s Studies Series.  Faludi will discuss feminism, while also exploring the other forms of identity--gender, religious, national--through the lens of her father’s many identity transformations—from Holocaust survivor to suburban dad to household despot to trans woman at the age of 76—and how that led her to explore the larger preoccupation with identity that consumes our age.

Irv Korman, actor, writer, theatre critic, clown and magician, returns to The Learned Owl Book Shop on Saturday, April 15th. He will be meeting customers and signing his newest book “Antuan Was Hear: 30 Years of Kids’ Quotes” from 1 to 3 p.m.