Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Lenney wrote "The Object Parade" and "Bigger Than Life: A Murder, a Memoir," and, with Judith Kitchen, co-edited "Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction." She serves as core faculty for the Bennington Writing Seminars, and as a senior editor for the Los Angeles... Read More →

Chang has been a hip-hop journalist for more than a decade and has written for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice, Vibe, The Nation, URB, Rap Pages, Spin, and Mother Jones. He was a founding editor of Colorlines Magazine, senior editor at Russell Simmons's 360hiphop.com... Read More →

Jouet teaches at Stanford Law School. His writing on the intriguing evolution of American politics, government, and culture has been featured in numerous publications, including Mother Jones, Slate, The New Republic, and San Francisco Chronicle. Raised in Paris by a French mother... Read More →

Mayer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three bestselling and critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books, most recently “Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right.” For her reporting at The New Yorker, Mayer... Read More →

Poulos is one of America's most original social theorists. A contributing editor at National Affairs and American Affairs, he has mapped the future of freedom for Foreign Policy, The Federalist, and Vice, among many other publications. Holding degrees from Duke and USC, he was a doctoral... Read More →