Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Kirsch, longtime book reviewer and author of 13 books, is the book editor of the Jewish Journal. He is also an attorney specializing in publishing and a member of the faculty for NYU's Summer Publishing Institute.

King is the bestselling author of several works and winner of the Canada's Governor General's Award. His works were nominated for the NBCCA, the Charles Taylor Prize, and the National Award for Arts Writing. He has lectured at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian, the Aspen... Read More →

Seaman is Editor, Adult Books, Booklist, member of the advisory council for the American Writers Museum, and recipient of the James Friend Memorial Award for Literary Criticism and the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award. She has reviewed for the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles... Read More →

Weschler, a creative nonfiction writer, was a staff writer at The New Yorker for over twenty years. He has written several books including, "Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder," a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Weschler is the director of the New York Institute for Humanities at NYU. His... Read More →