Happening Wednesday: Megadeth, Jeff Garlin with Ed Begley Jr. and more

BOOKS

Arthur Phillips The author, whose “Prague” won the Los Angeles Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction in 2002, marks the paperback release of his latest novel, “The Song Is You,” with this reading and signing. The book, Phillips’ fourth, is about an iPod-obsessed middle-aged commercial director who falls in love with a young Irish rock singer. Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave. 7:30 p.m. Free. (323) 660-1175. www.skylightbooks.com.

Jeff Garlin with Ed Begley Jr. Comedian Jeff Garlin of “Arrested Development” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” wrote a book about his simultaneous attempt to lose weight and go green. He will discuss “My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World” with fellow comedian and environmentalist Ed Begley Jr. Temple Emmanuel, 300 N. Clark Drive, Beverly Hills. $20. 7:30 p.m. (310) 276-9776. www.writersblocpresents.com.

Walter Mosley After last year’s “The Long Fall,” the prolific author returns with more hard-boiled intrigue parsed by middle-aged ex-boxer and P.I. Leonid McGill in “Known to Evil,” for which Mosley has pulled up the midcentury L.A. stakes of his celebrated Easy Rawlins series, situating McGill in a modern-day parallel universe New York City. Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. 7 p.m. Free. (626) 449-5320. www.vromansbookstore .com.

POP MUSIC

Megadeth/Testament The thrash metal titans revisit the classic “Rust in Peace” in its entirety while tour mate Testament takes on its own opus, “The Legacy.” Hollywood Palladium, 6215 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood. 6 p.m. www.livenation.com.