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