Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Since joining the LA Times in 2003, Gelt has written about television, music, movies, books, art, fashion, food, cocktails and more. She once played bass in a band with an inexplicably large following in Spain, and still gets stopped by fans (OK, maybe a fan) on the streets of Barcelona... Read More →

Fletcher is the bestselling author of biographies on Keith Moon, the Smiths, and R.E.M. among others, plus a memoir, novel, and history of the New York City music scene. Born in northern England, and raised in South London, where he started a music magazine at age thirteen, he immigrated... Read More →

Greenman is a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor who has written both fiction and nonfiction. His novels and short-story collections include “The Slippage” and “Superbad,” he was Questlove's collaborator on “Mo’ Meta Blues” and “Something... Read More →

Reynolds is an English music critic who is well-known for his writings on electronic dance music and for coining the term "post-rock." He is the author of "Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop," “Retromania: Pop Cultures Addiction to its Own Past” and... Read More →