Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

DeMarco-Barrett is host of Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM 88.9, which broadcasts from UC-Irvine. She's the author of "Pen on Fire" (Harcourt), a Los Angeles Times Bestseller, and contributed stories to USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series and Orange County Noir. She teaches privately... Read More →

Dyson is one of America's premier public intellectuals. He occupies the distinguished position of University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, has been an ordained minister for 35 years, is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, and is a contributing... Read More →

Gildea has been working in audiobook production since 2000. She has produced and directed many hundreds of titles, working with authors as varied as John Updike, Elie Wiesel, Bill Clinton, Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Jennifer Lopez. She was the recipient of two Odyssey Awards, for... Read More →

Saunders is the author of nine books, including the New York Times bestsellers "Congratulations, by the way" and "Tenth of December,” an essay collection, "The Braindead Megaphone,” and the critically acclaimed collections "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline,” "Pastoralia,” and "In... Read More →