The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
People and activities at the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC.
LeVar Burton accepts the Innovators Award during the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes awards at the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday, April 18, 2015 in Los Angeles, Calif.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)LeVar Burton accepts the Innovators Award during the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes awards at the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday, April 18, 2015 in Los Angeles, Calif.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Claudia Rankine accepts the Poetry Award during theLos Angeles Times Book Prizes awards at the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday, April 18, 2015 in Los Angeles, Calif.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Tom Bouma accepts the award for Mystery/Thriller during the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes awards at the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday, April 18, 2015, in Los Angeles, Calif.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Jaime Hernandez accepts the award for Graphic Novel/Comic during the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes awards at the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday, April 18, 2015, in Los Angeles, Calif.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Jeff Hobbs accepts the award for Current Interest during the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes awards at the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)T. C Boyle accepts the Robert Kirsch Award during the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes at the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Valeria Luiselli accepts the award for First Fiction during the L.A. Times Book Prizes at the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Candice Fleming accepts the award for Young Adult Literature during the L.A. Times Book Prizes at the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Festival attendees write what they are reading on a giant banner at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, on the campus of USC.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Young festival attendees write about the books they are reading on a giant banner at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, on the campus of USC.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Festival attendees look at books in the Book Soup booth at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, on the campus of USC.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Robert D. Putnam, speaks as fellow author Matt Taibbi laughs during the panel “America’s Rich and Poor: Looking at the Financial Gap” at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Edward Kleinbard, center, of USC, speaks during the panel “America’s Rich and Poor: Looking at the Financial Gap” at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. To the left is Los Angeles Times columnist
Matt Taibbi, right, whose latest book is “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap,” speaks during a festival panel.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Pamela Ribon, Issa Rae, moderator Ann Friedman and Mallory Ortberg speak on the Writing With a Smirk: Women and Humor panel during the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Mallory Ortberg speaks on the Writing With a Smirk: Women and Humor panel during the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Issa Rae laughs while speaking on the Writing With a Smirk: Women and Humor panel during the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Moderator Ann Friedman smiles while listening on the Writing With a Smirk: Women and Humor panel during the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Pamela Ribon speaks on the Writing With a Smirk: Women and Humor panel during the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Audience members laugh as Pamela Ribon, Issa Rae, moderator Ann Friedman and Mallory Ortberg speak on the Writing With a Smirk: Women and Humor panel during the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Tavis Smiley, author of “My Journey with Maya,” speaks on the Los Angeles Times stage at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the campus of USC.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Tavis Smiley, author of “My Journey with Maya,” speaks on the Los Angeles Times stage at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the campus of USC.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)YA author Robyn Schneider speaks on the Connections and Consequences panel during the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Attendees laugh during the young adult fiction Connections and Consequences panel at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Young adult fiction author Sarah Dessen speaks on the Connections and Consequences panel at the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)YA writer Emery Lord, center, takes part in the Connections and Consequences panel.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Amy Spalding moderates the Connections and Consequences panel of YA authors.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Author Emery Lord speaks on the Connections and Consequences panel.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Novelist Meg Wolitzer, whose most recent books are “The Interestings” and the YA book “Belzhar,” speaks on the Connections and Consequences panel.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Moderator Amy Spalding, Sarah Dessen, Emery Lord, Robyn Schneider and Meg Wolitzer take part in the Connections and Consequences YA panel.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Los Angeles Times photographer Jay L. Clendenin speaks about photographing celebrities.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Patton Oswalt speaks during the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Patton Oswalt, author of “Silver Screen Fiend,” and Wayne Federman share a stage at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Wayne Federman speaks during the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Patton Oswalt and Wayne Federman speak at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)T.C. Boyle, author of “The Harder They Come,” speaks at USC’s Ronald Tutor Campus Center during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Author T.C. Boyle, right, speaks with David L. Ulin, the Los Angeles Times’ book critic.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)David L. Ulin, the Los Angeles Times’ book critic, left, speaks with author T.C. Boyle.
(Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)Jose Antonio Vargas, Michelangelo Signorile, moderator Karen Grigsby Bates and Erin Aubry Kaplan speak on the Human Rights and Social Justice panel during the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday, April 18, 2015.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Jose Antonio Vargas holds up his California driver’s license while speaking on the Human Rights and Social Justice panels during the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday, April 18, 2015.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Moderator Karen Grigsby Bates speaks on the Human Rights and Social Justice panel during the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday, April 18, 2015.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Michelangelo Signorile speaks on the Human Rights and Social Justice panel during the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday, April 18, 2015.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Erin Aubry Kaplan speaks on the Human Rights and Social Justice panel during the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday, April 18, 2015.
(Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)Jose Antonio Vargas, Michelangelo Signorile, moderator Karen Grigsby Bates and Erin Aubry Kaplan speak on the Human Rights and Social Justice panel during the 20th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday, April 18, 2015.
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