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Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation; Bonnie Nadell, president of Hill Nadell Literary Agency; Oscar Villalon, managing editor of ZYZZYVA magazine; and Sean McDonal…

Panelists talked about book publishing. Panelists included Nicole Dewey, executive director of publicity at Little, Brown; Bonnie Nadell, president of Hill Nadell Literary Agency; Dan Smetan…

Panelists talked about book publishing. Panelists included Isaac Fitzgerald, editor of BuzzFeed Books; Maris Kreizman, publishing outreach lead for Kickstarter; Josh Raab, founder of theNewe…

Reagan Arthur, senior vice president and publisher at Little, Brown and Company; Bonnie Nadell, president of Hill Nadell Literary Agency; and Ethan Nosowsky, editorial director at Graywolf P…

David Burns talked about the 17th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. He was interviewed while at the 2012 festival, being held on the University Park Campus of the University of So…

Eddy Hartenstein and Max Nikias talked about their collaboration to put on the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the importance of the festival, and ways they are making use of the festiv…

A panel of publishers discussed the issues facing the industry. They also responded to questions from members of the audience. The moderator was Sara Nelson. “Publishing in the 21st Century”…

Eddy Hartenstein, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, talked about the 16-year history of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and how the festival was run and reported by the newspaper. …

Louise Steinman moderated a panel discussion on reading. The authors also responded to questions from members of the audience. Louise Steinman is the author of The Souvenir: A Daughter D…

James Britting, archivist of the Ayn Rand Institute, talked about the recurrent popularity of Atlas Shrugged and its relationship to the economic crisis. He was interviewed at his tent …

James Fugate, owner of EsoWan Books, talked about some of the titles by African Americans. He was interviewed at his tent at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the campus of the U…

An overview of the site of the book festival was shown before an interview with Michael Oren. The previous evening Mr. Oren won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for history for his book Six …

Authors discussed what prompted them to write memoirs and their plans for future books. They also focused on how writing a memoir changed their relationships with their families and the writ…

Panelists discussed the fate of political discourse after the Monica Lewinsky scandal. They analyzed recent trends in politics and in news coverage.

Authors spoke about how they determine their subjects for biographies, and how they study, research and write about these subjects. After their discussion questions were taken from the audie…