Charles Fleming

Secret Stairs: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles (Santa Monica Press) Join us for a fascinating look at our very own corner of L.A.! Author Charles Fleming will present and sign his walking guide—chock full of local history—about the historic staircases of Los Angeles. Charles Fleming is the author of the novels The Ivory Coast and After Havana and the respected Hollywood "how-not-to" book High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess, and co-author of the recent non-fiction bestseller My Lobotomy. A veteran reporter for Variety, Newsweek, the LA Weekly and the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Fleming teaches entertainment reporting at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism. He lives in Silver Lake with his wife and two daughters. Secret Stairs is his first walking guide. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS MAY 30, 2010.