Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

20 APRIL 2013 — saturday

The 18th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the country's largest book festival, features a weekend of books, music, film, comedy, food, famous authors and celebrities, entertainment, and more; authors and speakers include Orson Scott Card, Joyce Carol Oates, Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), Los Angeles Poet Laureate Eloise Klein Healy, Sarah Dessen, Carol Burnett, Cornelia Funke, Chris Columbus, Cassandra Clare, Debbie Reynolds, Lucy Dahl, Heather McDonald, Molly Ringwald, Mona Simpson, Christine Sneed, David Rensin, Austin Grossman, John Freeman, Robert Gale, Joshua Bloom, George Black, Alison Bechdel, Joshua Cody, Mark Bryant, Katharine Applegate, David Abrams, Paul Adler, Dwayne Booth, Aaron Childs, Elena Karina Byrne, Cecil Castelucci, Jeff Chu, Valerie Harper, Jennifer Haymore, Piper Kerman, Fiona Maazel, Kerri Majors, Demetri Martin, Aaron Johnston, Philip Kerr, and more; Children's Stage performances; Hoy Stage features performances in Spanish; Cooking Stage, Pop & Hiss music and dance stage, and Young Adult Stage; Poetry Stage: 10:00 a.m.: Susan Terris and Lynne Thompson, 10:30 a.m.: Gabriel Meyer and Christopher Merrill, 11:00 a.m.: Henri Cole and Richard Silberg, 11:30 a.m.: Marianne Boruch, Noon: Brynn Saito and Traci Brimhall, 12:30: Cole Swensen, 1:00: Bin Ramke, 1:30: Rowan Ricardo Phillips, 2:00: Kurt Brown, 2:30: Mary Jo Bang, 3:00: David St. John and Anna Journey, 3:30: Charles Harper Webb, 4:00: Dorothy Barresi and Jim Natal, 4:30: James Ragan and Helene Cardona, 5:00: Heidy Steidlmayer and Brendan Constantine, 5:30: VoiceMusic featuring Peter J. Harris, Tracy Wannomae, Alan Mark Lightner, and Rocio Marron; visit Poetry Flash at booth 122; University of Southern California, 850 West 37th Street, Los Angeles, panels and indoor conversations are free but require tickets available on site, 10:00 a.m.-6:00; also see the Festival calendar listings for Friday, April 19, and Sunday, April 21 (events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks)