With author panels, readings, and other activities accessible from home, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Stories & Ideas is proudly celebrating its 25th year. The country’s biggest book fair is going digital for the first time in its history, evidently due to the pandemic. Enjoy four weeks of streaming readings and author panels, all from the safety of your own home.
The LA Times Festival of Books is internationally renowned for featuring a wide array of highly talented creatives and storytellers from all across the globe, congregating in a collectively progressive and exciting culmination of art, wordplay, and literary excellence. This year’s lineup is a good one. Below are the featured books that will be exhibited and presented by their creators this October 18 to November 13, 2020, at the 2020 LA Times Festival of Books.
The LA Times 2020 Lineup Schedule for the Festival of Books is as follows:
Sunday, October 18
– Brandy Colbert
– Chris Argentieri
– Dr. Carol L. Folt
– Henry Winkler
– Jennifer De Leon
– Lin Oliver
– Shaun David Hutchinson
– Michael Ordoña (Moderator)
– Zan Romanoff (Moderator)
– Patt Morrison (Host)
Monday, October 19
– Ayad Akhtar
– Reza Aslan (Interviewer)
Tuesday, October 20
– Jane Junn
-John G. Matsusaka
– Paul Adler
Wednesday, October 21
– Jim Newton
– The Honorable Jerry Brown
– Gustavo Arellano (Interviewer)
Thursday, October 22
– Robero Lovato
– Esmeraldo Bermudez (Interviewer)
Friday, October 23
– Attica Locke
– Ivy Pochoda
– Rachel Howzell Hall
– James Queally (Moderator)
Monday, October 26
– Marlon James
– Tananarive Due (Interviewer)
Tuesday, October 27
– André Aciman, Gayle Forman, Greer Hendricks, and Sara Pekkanen in Conversation with Katie O’Connor, Sponsored by Audible (6:00 pm – 7:00 pm)
– André Aciman
– Gayle Forman
-Greer Hendricks
– Sarah Pekkanen
– Katie O’Connor (Moderator)
Wednesday, October 28
– Heather Cocks
– Jessica Morgan
– Kevin Kwan
– Jade Chang (Moderator)
Thursday, October 29
– Christopher Hawthorne
– Frederick Fisher
– Gail Kennard
– Juan De Lara
– Manuel Pastor
– Sarah Gualtieri
– Taj Frazier
– William Francis Deverell (Moderator)
Friday, October 30
– Laila Lalami
– Maria Hinojosa
– Steve Padilla (Moderator)
Sunday, November 1
– Ellison Tai Duong Nguyen
– Hien Bui-Stafford
– Jordan Ifueko
– Justin Chang
– Marie Lu
– Natalie Portman
-Tehlor Kay Mejia
-Thi Bui
– Viet Thanh Nguyen
– Sharon Levin (Moderator)
– Sumun L. Pendakur (Moderator)
Monday, November 2
– Jean Guerrero
– Kurt Andersen
– Stuart Stevens
– Sewell Chan (Moderator)
Wednesday, November 4
– Emily Bernard
– Frank Wilderson
– Morgan Jerkins
– Sandy Banks (Moderator)
Thursday, November 5
– Casey McQuiston
– Jasmine Guillory
– Rebekah Weatherspoon
– Elissa Sussman (Moderator)
Friday, November 6
– USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance BFA Students
Monday, November 9
– Jennifer Taub
– MehrsaBaradaran
– Sarah Chayes
Tuesday, November 10
– Ariela Julia Gross
– Kristen L. Zaleski
– Sam Erman
– Aliana Morgan (Moderator)
Wednesday, November 11
– (Audible)
Thursday, November 12
– Marilynne Robinson
– HéctorTobar (Interviewer)
Friday, November 13
– Debora Olivia Mackenzie
– Nicholas Christakis
– Sonia Shah
– SoumyaKarlamangla (Moderator)
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