This event has ended. Visit the official site or create your own event on Sched.

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

For more information, visit the Festival of Books website ›

Mara Guo

10:00am PDT

Festival Kickoff with the Trojan Marching Band USC Stage The Nick & Jen Show Reading by 9 Children's Stage, Signing Area 7 Luis J. Rodriguez, Reading from 'Borrowed Bones' Poetry Stage, Signing Area 5

10:20am PDT

Rigoberto Gonzalez, Reading from "Unpeopled Eden" Poetry Stage, Signing Area 5

10:30am PDT

Sherry Lansing and Stephen Galloway in Conversation with Mary McNamara, Conversation 1131 Norris Theater, Signing Area 5 Biography: The Artist As Muse, Conversation 1081 Annenberg Auditorium, Signing Area 3 Biography: The Women Behind the Power, Conversation 1011 Hancock Foundation, Signing Area 1 Fiction: Stories of Outsiders, Conversation 1051 Salvatori Computer Science Center 101, Signing Area 2 Fiction: You Can't Go Home Again, Conversation 1091 Seeley G. Mudd 123, Signing Area 4 Karen Lechelt, Author of "What Do You Love About You?" Reading by 9 Children's Stage, Signing Area 7 Russia Past & Present: Masha Gessen in Conversation with Kim Murphy, Conversation 1031 Town & Gown, Signing Area 1 What’s in a Brand? Building Business in the Digital Age, Conversation 1141 Wallis Annenberg Hall, Presented by USC, Signing Area 10 Michael Connelly in Conversation with Dan Pyne, Conversation 1061 Bovard Auditorium, Signing Area 3

10:40am PDT

James Galvin, Reading from 'Everything We Always Knew Was True' Poetry Stage, Signing Area 5

11:00am PDT

Wargirl (music performance) LA Sound Stage Tippi Hedren, Author of 'Tippi: A Memoir,' in Conversation with Mark Olsen Los Angeles Times Main Stage, Signing Area 8 Patt Morrison and Larry Ingrassia in Conversation LA Times Central Helene & Jacqueline An, Authors of 'An: To Eat', Cooking Demonstration Cooking Stage, Signing Area 4 Everybody's Got One: Fiction & Families, Conversation 1121 Taper Hall 101, Signing Area 5 Fiction: Classics 2.0, Conversation 1041 Andrus Gerontology Center, Signing Area 2 Fiction: The Storytellers, Conversation 1111 Seeley G. Mudd 124, Signing Area 4 Terese Svoboda, Reading from 'Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship' Poetry Stage, Signing Area 5 Nonfiction: Activists on the Front Lines, Conversation 1071 Ronald Tutor Campus Center, Signing Area 3 Crime Fiction: A Question of Character, Conversation 1021 Hoffman Hall, Signing Area 1

11:15am PDT

(Cancelled) Presentation by India Tourism Travel & Wellness Stage, Signing Area 9

11:20am PDT

Christopher Buckley, Reading from 'Star Journal: Selected Poems' Poetry Stage, Signing Area 5

1:30pm PDT

Is This Goodbye, NEA? Addressing Our Fears - and Hopes -for the Arts and Humanities, Conversation 2143 Wallis Annenberg Hall, Presented by USC, Signing Area 10