2019 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Schedule: Day 2

The 2019 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is a two-day book fair this coming April13-14 at the University of Southern California University Park near downtown Los Angeles. It is the largest book festival in the country.
 
Date: April 14, 2019
 
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
 
Location: University of Southern California / Los Angeles, California
 
Estimated Crowd: 200,000
 
On the second day of the 2019 LA Times Festival of Books, the University of Southern California will be hosting the following talks and workshops:

Programs and Panels:

10:00 am

• LA Librería: Bilingual Storytime with Ms. Angel **Bilingual Programming
• Dystopian Fiction: It’s the End of the World As We Know It |Mark Haskell Smith, Ben H. Winters, Ling Ma, and Adam Nemett

10:15 am

• LA Librería: Bilingual Storytime with Ms. Angel **Bilingual Programming
• Dystopian Fiction: It’s the End of the World As We Know It |Mark Haskell Smith, Ben H. Winters, Ling Ma, and Adam Nemett

10:30 am

• Cultural Preservation through Writing, Curated by Marty Preciado | Yeiry Guevara, Yesika Salgado, and Karla T. Vasquez
• Biography: The Lives of Legendary African Americans | Marcus Anthony Hunter, Raymond Arsenault, David W. Blight, Ron Rapoport, and Jeffrey C. Stewart
• Young Adult Fiction: Who Am I Anyway? | Elissa Sussman, Kayla Cagan, Brandy Colbert, Sarah Enni, and Sandhya Menon, Aje, Kay Benjamin, Bridgette Bianca, Sequoia Mercier, El Rivera, S Pearl Sharp, Jaha Zainabu, V. Kali

11:00 am

• The Right Recipe: What Makes a Great Cookbook | Amy Scattergood, Genevieve Ko, and Ben Mims

11:15 am

• “Here No One Gives Up” | Dacia Arcaráz

11:30 am

• “Say Something” | Peter H. Reynolds

11:40 am

• “¡VAMOS! Let’s go to the Market!” Raúl Gonzalez
• A Lens to the Past: Historical Young Adult Fiction | Sharon Levin, Julie Berry, Tonya Bolden, and Melissa de la Cruz
• Evolution of the Game Grid, from Tron to eSports | Arash Markazi, Susie Kim, Mike Bonifer, and Jerry Rees

12:01 pm

• California and the 2020 Campaign: Political Correspondents Brace for the Horse Race | Mark Z. Barabak, Melanie Mason, and Eli Stokols

12:30 pm

• “Tiny T. Rex and the impossible Hug” | Jonathan Stutzman

12:45 pm

• REACH: Democratizing Technology, Tools, and Distribution to Empower XR Storytellers | Nonny de la Peña

01:00 pm

• Storytime with Dr. Gladys Felix, Reading from “Tito Puente, mambo King” by Monica Brown & “La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya **Bilingual Programming
• Illustrator of “No More Problems” | Dan Santat

01:20 pm

• What is a Data Desk?: How the Spreadsheet has Joined the telephone, Notepad, and Camera Among the Essential Tools for Practicing Journalism | Ben Welsh, Sonali Kohli, Iris Lee and Priya Krishnakumar

01:30 pm

• “The Chupacabras of the Rio Grande” | Co-authors Adam Gidwitz & David Bowles
• Storytime with Susie Jaramillo, Creator of “Canticos” **Bilingual Programming
• Middle Grade Fiction: Grown Up Challenges | Brandy Colbert, Marie Cruz, Meg Medina, Karyn Parsons, and Lisa Ramee

02:00 pm

• av Akyüz, Illustrator of “Bear Moves” Sav Akyüz

02:30 pm

• “Gloria Takes a Stand | Author & Illustrator Jessica Rinker & Daria Peoples-Riley
• ANew Era of Power in Sacramento: Covering Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Challenges of California

03:00 pm

• Rosana Sullivan, Author of “Mommy Sayang” Rosana Sullivan
• In My Feelings: Young Adult Rom Coms

03:40 pm

• Los Angeles: The Sports Capital of the World | Angel Rodriguez, Bill Plaschke, Dylan Hernandez, Helene Elliott, and Gary Klein

04:00 pm

• Eva Chen & Derek Desierto, Author & Illustrator of “Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes” |Derek Desierto & Eva Chen

04:30 pm

• LA Librería: ZIG ZAG, ¡Un ABECÉ, en dos idiomas a la vez! ABC’s, in two languages, please! **Bilingual Programming Rochelle Newman & Alonso Nùñez

Conversations & Interviews

10:30 am

• Never Shut Up: The Life, Opinions, and Unexpected Adventures of an NFL Outlier by Author Marcellus Wiley | Interview by Angel Rodriguez
• Joyce Carol Oates, Author of “Hazards of Time Travel”
• Laila Lalami, Author of “The Other Americans”
• Connections and Consequences: Young Adult Fiction
• Notes From The ‘Ovary Office’: A Celebration of Wombin
• Creating Safe Spaces: Bullying, Violence, and Safety
• Science Fiction: Worlds Beyond Our Own
• Karamo Brown, Author of “My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope | Interview by Yvonne Villarreal
• SPHERES: The Songs of the Cosmos In Virtual Reality | Eliza McNitt
• Fiction: Calamity and Chaos

11:00 am

• Bret Easton Ellis, Author of “White”
• Trade Memoirs: Searching For Serenity
• Young Adult Fiction: writing The Real World
• Walter Mosley, Author of “Down the River Unto the Sea”
• CNN en Español’s Juan Carlos Lopez & Mario Gonzalez Conversation with Authors Reyna Grande & Julissa Arce (Spanish)
• Funny With a Twist: Putting the Personal in Pop Culture
• Bret Easton Ellis, Author of “White”
• Trade Memoirs: Searching For Serenity
• Young Adult Fiction: writing The Real World
• Walter Mosley, Author of “Down the River Unto the Sea”
• CNN en Español’s Juan Carlos Lopez & Mario Gonzalez Conversation with Authors Reyna Grande & Julissa Arce (Spanish)
• Funny With a Twist: Putting the Personal in Pop Culture
• Memoir: Exploring Life in Small Passages
• Memoir: Voices of the Black American Experience
• Music and Emotion: Sonic storytelling using Tactile Audio technology
• Aren’t We American? Race, Class, Immigration, and Citizenship
• History: Terror on the Home Front
• Books: What It Means to Be a Reader
• Amber Tamblyn, Author of “Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution | Interview by Mariel Garza
• Girls to the Front: Women Breaking Barriers
• Fiction: Versions of California
• Literary Endings: Death in the Novel
• Chelsea Clinton, Author of “Don’t Let Them Disappear”
• Freedom of the Press: Reporting in the Age of Trump

12:30 pm

• Amber Tamblyn, Author of “Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution | Interview by Mariel Garza
• Girls to the Front: Women Breaking Barriers
• Fiction: Versions of California
• Literary Endings: Death in the Novel
• Chelsea Clinton, Author of “Don’t Let Them Disappear”
• Freedom of the Press: Reporting in the Age of Trump

01:00 pm

• Essays and Memoir: Living Our Best Lives

01:30 pm

• Janet Napolitano, Author of “How Safe Are We: Homeland Security Since 9/11 | Interview by Scott Kraft
• Earth, Air, Fire, Water: The Environment in Crisis
• Leigh Bardugo, Author of “King of Scars”
• Blow ‘Em Up: Writing the High Octane Thriller
• Sound Trip: An Immersive Experience
• Chernobyl As Told On Page and Screen
• Where Do We Go From Here? Contextualizing This American Moment
• Food Justice for All? Food Security in L.A.

2:00 pm

• Jen Sincero, Author of “You Are a Badass Every Day,”
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Author of “Minutes of Glory,”
• Off the Record: Contemporary Political Fiction
• T.C. Boyle, Author of “Outside Looking In,”
• Rebel Radio Podcast

2:30 pm

• Justine Bateman, Author of “Fame: The Hijacking of Reality,” interviewed by Deborah Vankin Deborah Vankin & Justine Bateman
• In Conversation: Pepe Garza, Luciano Luna, & Abraham Vazquez Interviewed by Camilo Egaña
• Memoir: Queer Coming-of-Age

3:00 pm

• Marion Ross, Author of “My Days: Happy and Otherwise,” interviewed by Patt Morrison
• Outside the Bubble: the Politics of Citizenship Across America
• Story Craft: Writing Short Ficiton
• Music Storytelling Unplugged with Linda Perry, Beatie Wolfe, Jason Flom and Kerry Brown
• A Singular Focus: Chasing The Hidden Story
• Day to Day: Finding A Way to a Better Self

3:45 pm

• In Conversation: LA Librería Presents the Challenges of Biliteracy

4:00 pm

• Writing & Publishing: Inside Stories of the Book Business

Readings

10:00 am

• Reading from “How to Love a Country” | Richard Blanco

10:20 am

• Reading from “Sunbathing on Tyrone Power’s Grave” | Kim Dower

10:40 am

• Reading from “Bright Stain” | Francesca Bell

11:00 am

• Reading from “Do Not Open This Math Book” | Danica McKellar

11:15 am

• “Here No One Gives Up” | Dacia Arcaráz
• Reading from “Every Ravening Thing” | Marsha de la O

11:40 am

• Reading from “Rattlesnake Allegory” | Joe Jiménez

12:30 pm

• Reading from “Rattlesnake Allegory” | Joe Jiménez

12:45 pm

• Reading from “House of McQueen” | Valerie Wallace
• Reading from “bury it” |Sam Sax
• Reading from “Broken Kingdom” | Michelle Bitting

01:40 pm

• Reading from “These Many Rooms” | Laure-Anne Bosselaar

02:00 pm

• Reading from “Swift: New and Selected Poems” | David Baker

02:20 pm

• Reading from “The Thin Wall” | Martha Rhodes

02:40 pm

• Reading from “Birnam Wood” | Hélène Cardona

03:40 pm

• Reading from “After Party” | Noah Blaustein

04:00 pm

• Reading from “A Portrait of the Self as Nation” | Marilyn Chin

04:20 pm

• Reading from “Open Late” | Rex Wilder

04:40 pm

• Reading from “The War Chamber Ministry” | Michael C. Ford

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