
Amy Gerstler
LA Times Festival of Books: Kim Addonizio, Amy Gerstler, Suzanne Lummis, more
27 APRIL 2025 — sunday
The 30th annual LA Times Festival of Books presents indoor and outdoor events including over 200 author and celebrity panels, one-on-one conversations, music, film screenings, book signings, exhibitor booths, Children's Stage, food and cooking demos, bilingual programming and more, authors include poet Amanda Gorman, novelist Percival Everett, Pico Iyer, Chelsea Handler, Stacey Abrams, and many more; today's Poetry Stage features emcees Elena Karina Byrne and Marty L. Williams; 10:00 am: Holaday Mason, As If Scattered; 10:20 am: Tony Barnstone, Apocryphal Poems; 10:40 am: Amy Gerstler, Is This My Final Form?; 11:00 am: Perry Janes, Find Me When You're Ready; 11:20 am: Mita Mahato, Arctic Play; 11:40 am: Camille T. McDaniel, Blood, Skin, and Water; Noon: Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse, Dream State: A Commonplace Book; 12:30 pm: 30 Years of Los Angeles Poetry: A 30th Anniversary Panel, with Elena Karina Byrne, Amy Gerstler, Suzanne Lummis, Luis J. Rodriguez; 1:00 pm: Kim Addonizio, Exit Opera; 1:20 pm: Avan Jogia, Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob): (poems of rage, love, sex, and sadness);; 1:40 pm: Sarah Maclay, The H.D. Sequence—A Concordance; 2:00 pm: Derrick Austin, Tenderness; 2:20 pm: Donna Sprujit-Metz, To Phrase a Prayer for Peace; 2:40 pm: Nathan Xavier Osorio, Querida; 3:00 pm: Stella Wong, Stem; 3:20 pm: Carol Moldaw, Go Figure; 3:40 pm: Ruben Quesada, Brutal Companion; 4:00 pm: Lory Bedikian, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body; 4:20 pm: Farid Matuk, Moon Mirrored Indivisible; 4:40 pm: WriteGirl Poets Performance, I Tell You This Now; 5:00 pm: Jose Hernandez Diaz, Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man; 5:20 pm: Poetry Art Performance, with poet Gail Wronsky and artist Gronk Nicandro; University of Southern California campus, admission is free, photo ID will be required to enter USC, tickets for panels come with a small reservation fee required for panel sessions in classrooms and campus theatres, event parking is $20, parking garages are credit card only, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT (For more information, eventinfo@latimes.com, or visit: events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/schedule)


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- Womb House Books welcomes Grace Byron to discuss her new novel Herculine; this horror debut follows a woman who seeks refuge at an all-trans girl commune only to discover that demons haunt her comrades, in conversation with author Hannah Zeavin, Womb House Books, 470 49th Street, Oakland, free, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm (www.eventbrite.com/o/womb-house-books-79447203573)
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- City Arts and Lectures presents award-winning fiction writer Salman Rushdie, reading from and discussing his forthcoming book The Eleventh Hour, exploring themes of life, death, legacy, and identity through stories set in India, England, and the United States, countries significant to Rushdie's life and work, in conversation with English professor and Co-Director of Critical Theory at UC Berkeley, Poulomi Saha, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $64-$81, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)
17 NOVEMBER 2025 — monday
- City Arts and Lectures presents New York Times bestselling author Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate, Easy Exotic, Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet, in conversation with Peabody Award-winning comedian, director, and producer W. Kamau Bell, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $69-$105, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)
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- City Arts and Lectures presents Nobel Prize-winner Richard H. Thaler and Alex O. Imas discussing their new co-authored book The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies in Economic Life, in conversation with author Michael Lewis, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $49-$54, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)
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