Happening Tuesday

BOOKS

Meditations and Actions on Place: Three American Iconoclasts in Conversation Aloud at Central Library assembles a panel with divergent approaches to writing about landscape and finite resources. John D’Agata -- soon to lead the Center for the Essay at Iowa -- is the author of the new book “About a Mountain”; Verlyn Klinkenborg is the author of “The Last Fine Time” and “Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile”; and Michael Govan is a curator and the director of LACMA. Moderated by USC masters of professional writing program director Brighde Mullins. 7 p.m. Richard J. Riordan Central Library, 630 W. 5th St., L.A. Free. (213) 228-7025. www.aloudla.org.

The Anjou Bible Project The rare 14th century illustrated Bible is the focus of a lecture by Lieve Watteeuw, faculty member at Leuven University in Belgium. Watteeuw will discuss the famous Bible’s long history, highlighting illumination and gilding techniques and focusing on the materials identified by scientific analysis during a recent restoration. Getty Museum, 1200 Getty Center Drive. 3 p.m. Free admission, parking $15. (310) 440-7300. www.getty.edu.

POP MUSIC

Butch Walker The rakish guitar-pop savant has been a favorite pair of hands behind the boards for scads of L.A. artists. But he’s at his best behind a microphone, and his new album, “Butch Walker & the Black Widows,” is a reaffirmation of the pleasures of witty phrasing and a perfect chorus. It gets a release party here. Hotel Cafe, 1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood. 10 p.m. www.hotelcafe .com.