Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Specktor is the author of the novels "American Dream Machine" and "That Summertime Sound,” as well as a nonfiction book of film criticism. He is a founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Beauregard has been a university professor, motorcycle journalist, gourmet ice cream manufacturer, film archivist, and funeral home attendant. As a fundraiser, he has helped raise millions of dollars to support nonprofit arts and community service organizations in Tucson, Arizona... Read More →

Chee is the author of the novels "Edinburgh" and "The Queen of the Night.” He has received numerous awards including the Whiting Award and a NEA in Fiction. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic and VQR, a critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times, and an associate professor... Read More →

Himes' short fiction has been published in Shenandoah, The Florida Review (Editor's Choice Award 2008), Mid-American Review, Fourteen Hills (nominated for Best American Mysteries 2011), and elsewhere. "Mikhail and Margarita" is her debut novel. She lives with her family in Marblehead... Read More →