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10:30am PDT
Fiction: You Can't Go Home Again, Conversation 1091
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Wallen, a novelist and memoirist, is Associate Director of the New York State Summer Writers' Institute. In addition, she teaches private workshops and edits manuscripts. Her essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review, The Normal School, Country Living, The Writers' Chronicle...
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Francis' first novel "The Great Inland Sea" was published in seven languages. His second, "Stray Dog Winter,” named Novel of the Year in the Australian Literature Review, won the American Library Association Stonewall Prize for Literature. His short fiction has appeared in Best...
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Haslett is the author of the novel “Union Atlantic” and the New York Times best-selling short story collection “You Are Not a Stranger Here,” which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. His current book, “Imagine Me Gone,” was on the 2016 National...
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Hill's short fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa Review, AGNI, The Gettysburg Review, and Fiction, where he was awarded the annual Fiction Prize. A native Iowan, he lives with his wife in Naples, Florida. His acclaimed first novel “The Nix” is a...
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Woodson is the bestselling author of "Another Brooklyn" which was a 2016 finalist for the National Book Award, NAACP Image Award, a 2016 Los Angeles Times’ Christopher Isherwood Prize finalist for Autobiographical Prose, and a #1 Indie Pick. Her 2014 New York Times bestseller "Brown...
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12:00pm PDT
1:30pm PDT
Biography: The Lives of the Writers, Conversation 1093
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Nolan is co-editor of "Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald" and the author of "Ross Macdonald: A Biography.” He is crime-fiction columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
Bagge is the 2014 USA Rockefeller Fellow in Literature, Harvey Award-winning author of the comic series “Hate,” and contributing editor to Reason magazine. Bagge got his start in comics in the R. Crumb-edited magazine “Weirdo.” Drawn & Quarterly has published two biographies...
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Gooch is the author of "Smash Cut" and "Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor,” which was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, NYT bestseller and Notable Book of the Year. A Guggenheim Biography fellow, he received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, and...
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Morris is an author of biographies and narrative nonfiction. Aside from his new work on Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, his books include the New York Times Bestselling "Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, The First Lady of the Black Press," which was awarded the Benjamin Hooks...
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3:00pm PDT
Not Quite Overnight: The Real Story of Bestselling Debuts, Conversation 1094
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French is a staff writer in books at the Los Angeles Times. She has worked as an editor for a number of literary journals and magazines, including the Los Angeles Review of Books. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Bennington College. Born and raised in California, she has...
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Chang's debut novel, "The Wangs vs. the World,” was published in October 2016. It has been named a New York Times Editors' Choice and is one of Buzzfeed's 24 Best Books of 2016. The Wangs will be published in 11 countries and NPR said this: "Her book is unrelentingly fun, but it...
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Stradal is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel "Kitchens of the Great Midwest,” recipient of the ABA Indie's Choice Award for Best Adult Debut, the SCIBA Award for Fiction, and the Midwest Independent Booksellers Choice Award. He lives in Los Angeles, where he's Editor-at-Large...
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Sweeney is the New York Times bestselling author of "The Nest,” fiction finalist for the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award and one of the best books of 2016 according to Amazon, The Washington Post and others. "The Nest" has been translated into 26 languages and optioned for film by Amazon...
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4:30pm PDT
Nonfiction: Nature & Politics, Conversation 1095
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Curwen is a staff writer for the Times, where he has worked as editor of the Outdoors section, deputy editor of the Book Review and a features editor. He and a team of Times reporters won a Pulitzer for their work covering the 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino. In 2008 he was...
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Pratt-Bergstrom, a lifelong advocate for wildlife, has worked in two of the largest national parks, Yosemite and Yellowstone, and as the California Director for The National Wildlife Federation, she leads the #SaveLACougars campaign. Pratt-Bergstrom's conservation efforts have been...
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Speece is Assistant Dean of Students and History Teacher at Sidwell Friends School. His writing has appeared in Environmental History, Salon.com, The Chicago Tribune, The Salt Lake Tribune, and California History is publishing an article about the Redwood Wars later this spring. "Defending...
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Watts, author of “Tree,” has written for Sierra Magazine, New York Times motherlode blog, Earth Island Journal, Sunset, Urban Coast: Journal of the Center for the Study of the Santa Monica Bay, Heal the Bay blog, Malibu Times, Malibu Surfside News, VC Reporter, Topanga Messenger...
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10:30am PDT
Nonfiction: Pop Goes the World, Conversation 2091
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Goldberg is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen books, including “The "House of Secrets,” co-authored with Brad Meltzer, "Gangsterland,” a finalist for the Hammett Prize, and "Living Dead Girl,” which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He...
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Roy, in 2014, published in French "Ma vie rouge Kubrick", which won the Prix des Libraires du Québec for best novel of the year. In May 2016, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation included "Kubrick Red" in its select list of 100 essential Canadian books that must be read. It has...
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Smokler is the author of "Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven't Touched Since High School" (2013), and the editor of “Bookmark Now,” a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2005. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Salon, BuzzFeed, Vulture...
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12:00pm PDT
Fiction: Slightly Surreal, Conversation 2092
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Maruyama's novel “Harrowgate” was published by 47North. Her short work has appeared in numerous online and print journals as well as in anthologies. She is faculty in the BA and MFA programs at Antioch University Los Angeles and teaches with Writing Workshops LA and inspiration2publication.com...
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Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently "A Collapse of Horses" and "The Warren." His novel "Last Days" won the ALA-RUSA award for Best Horror Novel of 2009 and his novel The Open Curtain was a finalist for an Edgar Award. He is the recipient of three O. Henry...
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Tremblay is the author of six novels including the award-winning "A Head Full of Ghosts,”"Disappearance at Devil's Rock,” and "The Little Sleep.” His essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and numerous "year’s best" anthologies. He has a master's degree...
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Wallace is the author of "The Failed Cities" and the novella series "Sin du Jour" and "Rencor.” He's penned over one hundred short stories, some of which have won awards and been nominated for others, in addition to writing for film and television. In his youth he traveled the world...
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Wendig, author of “Thunderbird,” is a novelist, screenwriter, and game designer. He's the author of many published novels, including but not limited to: "Blackbirds,” the YA Heartland series, and the NYT bestselling series "Star Wars: Aftermath.” He is co-writer of the short...
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1:30pm PDT
Memoir: Exploring the World, Conversation 2093
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Daley is the Director of Writing Workshops Los Angeles and she teaches academic writing at the California Institute of Technology. Her creative work and criticism have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Collagist, Crony, DUM DUM Zine, FORTH Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books...
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Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of "Cod, Salt, Paper,” "The Basque History of the World,” "1968,” "The Big Oyster,” "International Night,” and others. He received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonviolence, Bon Appetit's Food Writer of the Year Award...
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Lutz is the author of "And the Monkey Learned Nothing: Dispatches from a Life in Transit" and "Drinking Mare's Milk on the Roof of the World: Wandering the Globe from Azerbaijan to Zanzibar," both published in 2016. His other books include "Crying," “Doing Nothing," "American Nervousness...
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White has written for the Christian Science Monitor, Sierra, The Sun, Surfer's Journal, Orion, and other publications. His first book, "Talking on the Water" (Sierra Club Books), is a collection of interviews exploring our relationship with nature. His newest book is "Tides." White...
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3:00pm PDT
Crime Fiction: Walking the Line, Conversation 2094
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Woods is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the editor or author or eight books, including four Charlotte Justice mystery novels. Her reviews appear regularly in The Los Angeles Times.
Hallinan is the Edgar- and Macavity-nominated author of the Poke Rafferty thriller series and the Junior Bender mystery series. After years of working in Hollywood, television, and the music industry, he now writes full time. He divides his time between California and Thailand. His...
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Ide is of Japanese American descent. Growing up in South Central Los Angeles, Joe's favorite books were the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories. The idea that a person could face the world and vanquish his enemies with just his intelligence fascinated him. Joe went on to earn a graduate...
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Swinson is the author of “A Detailed Man” and “Second Girl.” He is a retired D.C. police detective and a former alternative and punk rock promoter in Long Beach, CA in the eighties.
