The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Join US for the The LOS ANGELES TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS!!SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: 09:55 am: Poetry Stage Emcees: Elena Karina Byrne and Marty L. Williams copy 10:00 am: Special Screening of MASTERPIECE'S 'Miss Austen' Episode 1 followed by QandA with author Gill Hornby and executive producer Christine Langan 10:00 am: Trojan Marching Band 10:00 am: Los Angeles Public Library Welcome 10:00 am: Ask A Reporter: L.A.'s Push for More Rings 10:00 am: The Other Golden State Killers: True Crime in California 10:00 am: L.A. Times Stage Emcee: Stuart K Robinson 10:00 am: Holaday Mason, reading from 'As If Scattered' 10:00 am: The Home Team: Sports, Competition, and Seeing What You're Made of in Middle Grade Fiction 10:15 am: Blippi 10:20 am: Jenny Slate, author of 'Lifeform,' in conversation with Traci Thomas 10:20 am: Tony Barnstone, reading from 'Apocryphal Poems' 10:30 am: Hora de cuentos con la Biblioteca Pública de Los Ángeles 10:30 am: A Tale So Fated and Forbidden: Loving the Paranormal in Romance 10:30 am: The Old World is Right Behind You: The Role of the Historical Novel 10:30 am: The Oddities of Earthlings: Magical Realism in Contemporary Fiction 10:30 am: Unequal Ground: The Silent War Against the Poor and Marginalized 10:30 am: The Power and Possibilities of AI 10:30 am: Friend of My Mind: Essays on Finding a Home in Literature 10:30 am: Maureen Dowd, author of 'Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech,' in conversation with Mary McNamara 10:50 am: Lucky Diaz, author of 'Fix-It Familia' 11:00 am: All Together Now: Essay Collections with One Subject, Many Voices 11:00 am: Mamrie Hart, author of 'All l Think About is Food,' Cooking Demo 11:00 am: Between the Lines: Untold Stories of Literary Legends 11:00 am: Robyn Hitchcock, Author of '1967': How I Got There and Why I Never Left, in conversation with Jonathan Lethem 11:00 am: Sophia Condon (musical performance-pop-rock) 11:00 am: The Call is Coming from Inside the House: Novels about Writers 11:00 am: Perry Janes, reading from 'Find Me When You're Ready' 11:05 am: Lil' Libros Storytime with Katherine Trejo 11:15 am: Ask A Reporter: Welcome to Motel California 11:20 am: Mita Mahato, reading from 'Arctic Play' 11:20 am: Harry Shum Jr and Shelby Rabara, authors of 'Martee Dares to Dance' 11:20 am: Middle Grade Fiction: Loss, Grief, Finding Your Way Back 11:30 am: That Was a Close One: Young Adult Thrillers 11:30 am: Wilmer Valderrama, author of 'An american Story: Everyone's Invited,' in conversation with Fidel Martinez co-presented by De Los 11:40 am: Camille T. McDaniel, reading from 'Blood, Skin, and Water' 11:45 am: Voto Latino: Post-Election Reflections 11:50 am: Shawn Harris, author and illustrator of 'The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn's Great Big Wish' 12:00 pm: Robert Crais, author of 'The Big Empty,' in conversation with Jeffrey Fleishman 12:00 pm: Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse, reading from 'Dream State: A Commonplace Book' 12:00 pm: Man, Myth, or Legend? Political Biographies that Take a Second Look 12:00 pm: Scoring the Screen: Music in Film and Television 12:00 pm: Leave It All on the Stage: Writers and Directors in Conversation, presented by Center Theatre Group 12:00 pm: A Novel Approach to a Television Series, presented by Universal Studio Group 12:00 pm: The Business of Show Business: Actors and Writers on Life Behind the Scenes 12:00 pm: What's the Frequency... How Art Feeds the Brain 12:00 pm: Under My Skin: Gender and Identity in Fiction 12:10 pm: Michele Lu (musical performance-indie pop-alternative) 12:30 pm: Percival Everett, author of 'James,' in conversation with Héctor Tobar 12:30 pm: Ask A Reporter: Media Literacy in a Time of Environmental Disaster 12:30 pm: Midwest is Best: Heartache, Home, and the Heartland in Fiction 12:30 pm: Fictional Fathers and Family Sagas 12:30 pm: Ivan McCombs, author of 'Insanely Good Ramen Meals,' Cooking Demo 12:30 pm: The Silent Killer: Understanding Genetics' Impact on Health 12:30 pm: What a Girl Wants: Romance in Young Adult Fiction 12:35 pm: Platoon Presents: Megan Piphus 12:40 pm: Fantastical Creatures and Magical Kingdoms in Middle Grade Fiction 12:40 pm: Josh Gad, author of 'IN GAD WE TRUST: A Tell-Some,' in conversation with Jon Lovett 12:45 pm: Por Siempre Fernando: Jaime and Jorge Jarrín remember Fernando Valenzuela 01:00 pm: Kim Addonizio, reading from 'Exit Opera' 01:00 pm: Encore: Musical Legends and Their Legacies 01:05 pm: Drew Daywalt, author of 'Little Freddie Two Pants' 01:20 pm: Astral Mixtape (musical performance-classical fusion) 01:20 pm: Avan Jogia, reading from 'Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob): (poems of rage, love, sex, and sadness)' 01:30 pm: Red Flag Warning: California, Wildfires, and Where We Go From Here 01:30 pm: Jon M. Chu, author of 'Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen,' in conversation with Ashley Lee 01:30 pm: Storytelling, Social Movements, and Political Histories 01:30 pm: Character Study: The Myth of the Male Writer in Contemporary Fiction 01:30 pm: Romance and the Subgenre 01:30 pm: Once Upon a Nightmare: Suspense, Noir, and Crime in Short Stories 01:30 pm: Displaced: The Unhoused Crisis 01:30 pm: Now Streaming: A Closer Look at the TV Shows that Made Us 01:35 pm: Alex Killian and Grady McFerrin, author and illustrator of 'In-Between Places' 01:40 pm: Sarah Maclay, reading from 'The H.D. Sequence-A Concordance' 01:45 pm: Stories That Heal: Interrupting Intergenerational Cycles 01:45 pm: Ask A Reporter: The Dirty Secret of Legal Weed 01:50 pm: Chelsea Handler, author of 'I'll Have What She's Having,' in conversation with Yvonne Villarreal 02:00 pm: Nicole Rucker, author of 'Fat and Flour,' Cooking Demo 02:00 pm: Yours, Mine, and Ours: Family Secrets and Dynamics in Fiction 02:00 pm: Mixed Media: When Visual Art Meets the Written Word 02:00 pm: The Hard Way: Reputations and Learning Lessons in Young Adult Fiction 02:00 pm: Punks, Rebels, and Recipes: The Popular Culture of Asian america 02:00 pm: Derrick Austin, reading from 'Tenderness' 02:05 pm: Tika Sumpter, author of 'I Got It From My Mama' 02:20 pm: Donna Sprujit-Metz, reading from 'To Phrase a Prayer for Peace' 02:30 pm: Gretchen Whitmer, author of 'True Gretch: Lessons for Anyone Who Wants to Make a Difference,' in conversation with Jessica Gelt 02:30 pm: Aaron Wolff Fig (musical performance-rock-indie rock) 02:30 pm: The New american Outlaw: Making and Breaking the Law in Contemporary Suspense and Crime Fiction 02:35 pm: Patrick Renna, author of 'A Little Slugger's Guide to the Unwritten Rules of Baseball and Life' 02:40 pm: Nathan Xavier Osorio, reading from 'Querida' 02:45 pm: Expanding Narratives: Embracing Joy and Blackness 03:00 pm: Stella Wong, reading from 'Stem' 03:00 pm: Historical Mysteries 03:00 pm: More than a Game: The Changing Landscape of Game Design, Player Identity and Meaningful Play 03:00 pm: Revolutionary Romance: Queens and Warriors in Romantasy 03:00 pm: Political Violence on the Rise: The State of Politics Today 03:00 pm: Big Sean, author of "Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace," in conversation with LZ Granderson 03:00 pm: A Songwriter's Eye for Detail: A conversation with Musicians Mike Campbell and Peter Wolf 03:00 pm: Mysterious Dimensions of the Human Mind in Mystery and Horror Fiction 03:00 pm: Ask A Reporter: Crimes of the Times 03:00 pm: Generating Panel Title.... How AI is Shaping the Future 03:00 pm: Get Lost: How to Travel Like the Experts 03:05 pm: Miles McKenna, author of 'I am NOT a Vampire' 03:20 pm: The Peculiar and the Familiar: Loss, Longing, and Magical Realism in Young Adult Fiction 03:20 pm: Carol Moldaw, reading from 'Go Figure' 03:30 pm: Survival and Resilience in Native american Culture 03:30 pm: Deep Dive: Revealing the Big Story 03:30 pm: Good on Paper: The New Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Fiction 03:30 pm: Kiano Moju, author of 'AfriCali,' Cooking Demo 03:30 pm: The Art of the Short Story 03:35 pm: Storytime with the Los Angeles Public Library 03:40 pm: Ruben Quesada, reading from 'Brutal Companion' 03:40 pm: Kazan Taiko (musical performance-traditional Japanese Drumming) 04:00 pm: Lory Bedikian, reading from 'Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body' 04:05 pm: Maham Khwaja and Daby Zainab Faidhi, author and illustrator of "The Home We Make" 04:15 pm: Ask A Reporter: How We Cover Immigration 04:20 pm: Farid Matuk, reading from 'Moon Mirrored Indivisible' 04:40 pm: Performance: WriteGirl