Dave Eggers: The Eyes and the Impossible
Is there anything Dave Eggers can’t do? The multi-talented juggernaut’s latest project—a collaboration with artist Shawn Harris—is an illustrated novel for all ages. The Eyes and the Impossible is an animal fable about Johannes, a dog…
Tasting History: A Delicious Journey Through the Past
Readers of fiction (too) often gloss over description of nature, but this session invites readers to really pay attention to nature writing, in all its marvelous variety. Set aside your human concerns for an hour and immerse yourself in the…
A Life in Books
Each of us has a different, and beautiful, relationship with the books we read…and write. That is no less true if you’ve just published your first, as longtime librarian Dorothy Lazard has with her memoir What You Don’t Know Will Make…
An Evening with Joan Baez: Trailblazing Musician, Artist, and Activist
Science Fiction: Space Exploration
Get ready to take off for the far reaches of the galaxy via three very different, but equally fascinating, stories of space exploration written by superb storytellers. Festival favorite Annalee Newitz’s The Terraformers, which begins nearly…
Indigenous Perspectives in Genre Fiction
Just three years ago, the Los Angeles Times published a profile of an author whose new novel was, as they put it, "one of only a handful of thrillers by an Indigenous author." How quickly things have changed, as evidenced by this panel of Native…
Dazzling Debuts
Here's your chance to meet four astonishingly talented young authors, hailing from around the world, at the beginning of their careers—you'll be able to boast that you saw them when! Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You might be a debut,…