Join us for the The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books!!

Schedule of Events:

09:55 am: Poetry Stage Emcees: Elena Karina Byrne and Marty L. Williams copy
10:00 am: Special Screening of MASTERPIECE'S 'Miss Austen' Episode 1 followed by QandA with author Gill Hornby and executive producer Christine Langan
10:00 am: Trojan Marching Band
10:00 am: Los Angeles Public Library Welcome
10:00 am: Ask A Reporter: L.A.'s Push for More Rings
10:00 am: The Other Golden State Killers: True Crime in California
10:00 am: L.A. Times Stage Emcee: Stuart K Robinson
10:00 am: Holaday Mason, reading from 'As If Scattered'
10:00 am: The Home Team: Sports, Competition, and Seeing What You're Made of in Middle Grade Fiction
10:15 am: Blippi
10:20 am: Jenny Slate, author of 'Lifeform,' in conversation with Traci Thomas
10:20 am: Tony Barnstone, reading from 'Apocryphal Poems'
10:30 am: Hora de cuentos con la Biblioteca Pública de Los Ángeles
10:30 am: A Tale So Fated and Forbidden: Loving the Paranormal in Romance
10:30 am: The Old World is Right Behind You: The Role of the Historical Novel
10:30 am: The Oddities of Earthlings: Magical Realism in Contemporary Fiction
10:30 am: Unequal Ground: The Silent War Against the Poor and Marginalized
10:30 am: The Power and Possibilities of AI
10:30 am: Friend of My Mind: Essays on Finding a Home in Literature
10:30 am: Maureen Dowd, author of 'Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech,' in conversation with Mary McNamara
10:50 am: Lucky Diaz, author of 'Fix-It Familia'
11:00 am: All Together Now: Essay Collections with One Subject, Many Voices
11:00 am: Mamrie Hart, author of 'All l Think About is Food,' Cooking Demo
11:00 am: Between the Lines: Untold Stories of Literary Legends
11:00 am: Robyn Hitchcock, Author of '1967': How I Got There and Why I Never Left, in conversation with Jonathan Lethem
11:00 am: Sophia Condon (musical performance-pop-rock)
11:00 am: The Call is Coming from Inside the House: Novels about Writers
11:00 am: Perry Janes, reading from 'Find Me When You're Ready'
11:05 am: Lil' Libros Storytime with Katherine Trejo
11:15 am: Ask A Reporter: Welcome to Motel California
11:20 am: Mita Mahato, reading from 'Arctic Play'
11:20 am: Harry Shum Jr and Shelby Rabara, authors of 'Martee Dares to Dance'
11:20 am: Middle Grade Fiction: Loss, Grief, Finding Your Way Back
11:30 am: That Was a Close One: Young Adult Thrillers
11:30 am: Wilmer Valderrama, author of 'An american Story: Everyone's Invited,' in conversation with Fidel Martinez co-presented by De Los
11:40 am: Camille T. McDaniel, reading from 'Blood, Skin, and Water'
11:45 am: Voto Latino: Post-Election Reflections
11:50 am: Shawn Harris, author and illustrator of 'The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn's Great Big Wish'
12:00 pm: Robert Crais, author of 'The Big Empty,' in conversation with Jeffrey Fleishman
12:00 pm: Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse, reading from 'Dream State: A Commonplace Book'
12:00 pm: Man, Myth, or Legend? Political Biographies that Take a Second Look
12:00 pm: Scoring the Screen: Music in Film and Television
12:00 pm: Leave It All on the Stage: Writers and Directors in Conversation, presented by Center Theatre Group
12:00 pm: A Novel Approach to a Television Series, presented by Universal Studio Group
12:00 pm: The Business of Show Business: Actors and Writers on Life Behind the Scenes
12:00 pm: What's the Frequency... How Art Feeds the Brain
12:00 pm: Under My Skin: Gender and Identity in Fiction
12:10 pm: Michele Lu (musical performance-indie pop-alternative)
12:30 pm: Percival Everett, author of 'James,' in conversation with Héctor Tobar
12:30 pm: Ask A Reporter: Media Literacy in a Time of Environmental Disaster
12:30 pm: Midwest is Best: Heartache, Home, and the Heartland in Fiction
12:30 pm: Fictional Fathers and Family Sagas
12:30 pm: Ivan McCombs, author of 'Insanely Good Ramen Meals,' Cooking Demo
12:30 pm: The Silent Killer: Understanding Genetics' Impact on Health
12:30 pm: What a Girl Wants: Romance in Young Adult Fiction
12:35 pm: Platoon Presents: Megan Piphus
12:40 pm: Fantastical Creatures and Magical Kingdoms in Middle Grade Fiction
12:40 pm: Josh Gad, author of 'IN GAD WE TRUST: A Tell-Some,' in conversation with Jon Lovett
12:45 pm: Por Siempre Fernando: Jaime and Jorge Jarrín remember Fernando Valenzuela
01:00 pm: Kim Addonizio, reading from 'Exit Opera'
01:00 pm: Encore: Musical Legends and Their Legacies
01:05 pm: Drew Daywalt, author of 'Little Freddie Two Pants'
01:20 pm: Astral Mixtape (musical performance-classical fusion)
01:20 pm: Avan Jogia, reading from 'Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob): (poems of rage, love, sex, and sadness)'
01:30 pm: Red Flag Warning: California, Wildfires, and Where We Go From Here
01:30 pm: Jon M. Chu, author of 'Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen,' in conversation with Ashley Lee
01:30 pm: Storytelling, Social Movements, and Political Histories
01:30 pm: Character Study: The Myth of the Male Writer in Contemporary Fiction
01:30 pm: Romance and the Subgenre
01:30 pm: Once Upon a Nightmare: Suspense, Noir, and Crime in Short Stories
01:30 pm: Displaced: The Unhoused Crisis
01:30 pm: Now Streaming: A Closer Look at the TV Shows that Made Us
01:35 pm: Alex Killian and Grady McFerrin, author and illustrator of 'In-Between Places'
01:40 pm: Sarah Maclay, reading from 'The H.D. Sequence-A Concordance'
01:45 pm: Stories That Heal: Interrupting Intergenerational Cycles
01:45 pm: Ask A Reporter: The Dirty Secret of Legal Weed
01:50 pm: Chelsea Handler, author of 'I'll Have What She's Having,' in conversation with Yvonne Villarreal
02:00 pm: Nicole Rucker, author of 'Fat and Flour,' Cooking Demo
02:00 pm: Yours, Mine, and Ours: Family Secrets and Dynamics in Fiction
02:00 pm: Mixed Media: When Visual Art Meets the Written Word
02:00 pm: The Hard Way: Reputations and Learning Lessons in Young Adult Fiction
02:00 pm: Punks, Rebels, and Recipes: The Popular Culture of Asian america
02:00 pm: Derrick Austin, reading from 'Tenderness'
02:05 pm: Tika Sumpter, author of 'I Got It From My Mama'
02:20 pm: Donna Sprujit-Metz, reading from 'To Phrase a Prayer for Peace'
02:30 pm: Gretchen Whitmer, author of 'True Gretch: Lessons for Anyone Who Wants to Make a Difference,' in conversation with Jessica Gelt
02:30 pm: Aaron Wolff Fig (musical performance-rock-indie rock)
02:30 pm: The New american Outlaw: Making and Breaking the Law in Contemporary Suspense and Crime Fiction
02:35 pm: Patrick Renna, author of 'A Little Slugger's Guide to the Unwritten Rules of Baseball and Life'
02:40 pm: Nathan Xavier Osorio, reading from 'Querida'
02:45 pm: Expanding Narratives: Embracing Joy and Blackness
03:00 pm: Stella Wong, reading from 'Stem'
03:00 pm: Historical Mysteries
03:00 pm: More than a Game: The Changing Landscape of Game Design, Player Identity and Meaningful Play
03:00 pm: Revolutionary Romance: Queens and Warriors in Romantasy
03:00 pm: Political Violence on the Rise: The State of Politics Today
03:00 pm: Big Sean, author of "Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace," in conversation with LZ Granderson
03:00 pm: A Songwriter's Eye for Detail: A conversation with Musicians Mike Campbell and Peter Wolf
03:00 pm: Mysterious Dimensions of the Human Mind in Mystery and Horror Fiction
03:00 pm: Ask A Reporter: Crimes of the Times
03:00 pm: Generating Panel Title.... How AI is Shaping the Future
03:00 pm: Get Lost: How to Travel Like the Experts
03:05 pm: Miles McKenna, author of 'I am NOT a Vampire'
03:20 pm: The Peculiar and the Familiar: Loss, Longing, and Magical Realism in Young Adult Fiction
03:20 pm: Carol Moldaw, reading from 'Go Figure'
03:30 pm: Survival and Resilience in Native american Culture
03:30 pm: Deep Dive: Revealing the Big Story
03:30 pm: Good on Paper: The New Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Fiction
03:30 pm: Kiano Moju, author of 'AfriCali,' Cooking Demo
03:30 pm: The Art of the Short Story
03:35 pm: Storytime with the Los Angeles Public Library
03:40 pm: Ruben Quesada, reading from 'Brutal Companion'
03:40 pm: Kazan Taiko (musical performance-traditional Japanese Drumming)
04:00 pm: Lory Bedikian, reading from 'Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body'
04:05 pm: Maham Khwaja and Daby Zainab Faidhi, author and illustrator of "The Home We Make"
04:15 pm: Ask A Reporter: How We Cover Immigration
04:20 pm: Farid Matuk, reading from 'Moon Mirrored Indivisible'
04:40 pm: Performance: WriteGirl