Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Miranda is a Los Angeles Times staff writer covering culture from high to low: museums to murals, art books to comics, documentaries to reaction GIFs. A longtime independent journalist, she has reported on the architecture of skate parks and the intersection of fine art and video... Read More →

Arellano is editor of OC Weekly, author of the syndicated column ¡Ask a Mexican! And wrote "Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America."

Kun is a professor in the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity. He is an author and editor of several books, including "Songs in the Key of Los Angeles,” "To Live and Dine in L.A.,” and the forthcoming "The Tide Was Always... Read More →

Ulin is the author, most recently, of "Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles," a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein- Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, and the novel "Ear to the Ground," co-written with Paul Kolsby. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, he is the former book editor... Read More →