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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.
Genre Games
Finalists for the Times Book Prize in mystery/thriller, from top left going clockwise: Rachel Howzell Hall, Christopher Bollen, Ivy Pochoda, Jennifer Hillier and S.A. Cosby.
(Jay L. Clendenin / LAT/Sebastien Botella/Darren Blohowiak/S.A. Cosby.)
Five of 2020’s best crime writers on where mystery fiction is today
A young queer couple runs a high-stakes con game in Venice, Italy. Black and white people in rural Virginia become uneasy allies in a heist gone wrong. A fledgling PI works a case while evading her abusive ex-husband. A child abduction in Seattle reveals fissures in a marriage that could turn fatal. Women in West Adams live in the shadow of a serial killer. While they are all very different, what unites these five novels, apart from their being shortlisted for the Times Book Prize in the mystery/thriller category, is that they are unafraid to explore difficult topics with diverse characters, unencumbered by expectations about genre.
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Bynum, a finalist for the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prize in fiction, will appear April 19 on “This Moment in Fiction”
with Patricia Lockwood and Lauren Oyler, with The Times’ writer Amy Kaufman moderating.
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Exceptional, unique works of fiction can work as primers for themselves. “The Erlking,” the first story in “Likes” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, has all of the elements that appear in the rest of the book. Set at a fair at a children’s school, it’s part fairy tale thanks to a point of view that pivots from mother to daughter, who sees things through the glossy unreality of a little girl. There are also questions about representation and a setting that is definitely Los Angeles. A distant figure who seems to be a threatening boogeyman turns out to be John C. Reilly the Oscar-nominated actor is reco
2021 Ray Bradbury Prize Finalists
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