WHEN: April 17-23
HOW: Register in advance for events and receive a reminder email with a link.
DETAILS: Events are free to view except those featuring Don Lemon, Richard Thompson and Brandi Carlile, which cost $5. Books available through partner booksellers. Questions can be submitted on registration. See Festival FAQ for more.
April 17
Festival of Books kickoff, presented with USC
Join us for the kickoff of the 26th annual Festival of Books featuring Dr. Carol L. Folt, USC president, along with surprise appearances by L.A. Times writers and a performance by the USC Trojan Marching Band. Please join in this prelude to the weeklong virtual celebration of books with conversations, panels, children’s and poetry readings and more! Times columnist Patt Morrison will host the event.
Hollywood Exec Samantha Hart’s Coming-of-Age Memoir, “Blind Pony,” Now Available Worldwide
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LIVE Virtual Book Signing Hosted by Los Angeles’ Book Soup on March 19th where Hart will be in Conversation with Author Melissa Maerz
Samantha Hart s Blind Pony Book Cover, Designed by Nick Egan
I began to sense that she had a much bigger story to tell one that would make a great movie itself. LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) March 18, 2021 Hollywood executive and author Samantha Hart s debut book and memoir, Blind Pony: As True A Story As I Can Tell (Wild Bill), reveals Hart s journey from a runaway teen to a successful Hollywood executive. The book is available worldwide on March 15, 2021, and can be ordered on Amazon or samanthahart.net.
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15 things you might learn from the oral history of ‘Dazed and Confused’
1993 film riding new round of nostalgia By Matthew Odam, Austin American-Statesman
Published: December 27, 2020, 6:05am
Share: Matthew McConaughey (foreground), Rory Cochrane and the rest of the Dazed and Confused cast had as much fun making the movie as people did seeing it, according to a new oral history of the 1993 film. (UNIVERSAL PICTURES)
You don’t expect to read the oral history of one of the great American hangout movies and find heartache. But a touch of longing lingers at the end of Melissa Maerz’s new book “Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused.” Maybe it’s just proof that the pain of returning home always holds a little bittersweetness.
2020 Review: Here are the best books we read in quarantine
Andrew Dansby, Staff writer
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FILE - Filmmaker James McBride poses for a portrait during the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Jan. 23, 2012. McBride and editor Chris Jackson were among those honored Thursday night by the Center for Fiction. McBride and Showtime received an On Screen Award for the acclaimed adaptation of his prize-winning historical novel “The Good Lord Bird,” which starred Ethan Hawke as the radical 19th century abolitionist John Brown. (AP Photo/Victoria Will, File)Victoria Will, FRE / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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