Los Angeles Times Book Prizes: Margaret Atwood

19 APRIL 2013 — friday

33rd Annual Los Angeles Times Books Prizes ceremony honors the best books of 2012, awards include Innovator's Award to writer Margaret Atwood, Kirsch Award to historian Kevin Starr, and finalists in a wide range of literary categories, Poetry nominees are Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Gluck, The Ground by Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Useless Landscapes, or A Guide for Boys by D.A. Powell, Aerial by Bin Ramke, and Gravesend by Cole Swensen; Fiction nominees are The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg, Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain, Arcadia by Lauren Groff, Magnificence by Lydia Millet, and Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer, University of Southern California, Bovard Auditorium, Los Angeles, $10, 7:30; also see the Festival calendar listings for Saturday, April 20, and Sunday, April 21 (events.latimes.com/bookprizes)