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April 18, 2026 12:39 PM PT
The “Coachella of books” has arrived. The biggest literate arena successful nan country, nan L.A. Times Festival of Books, kicked disconnected astatine USC this weekend. The 31st yearly arena features much than 500 authors, including Lionel Richie, Tina Knowles, Larry David, Pat Benatar, Amy Tan, Anne Lamott and more. Several of these talented individuals stopped by nan L.A. Times photograph workplace to person their portraits taken betwixt spirited sheet discussions and book signings.
Here are immoderate image highlights from nan 2026 Festival of Books:
Jason Reynolds.
Melissa Febos.
Mac Barnett.
Stuart K Robinson .
Elizabeth Crane writer of “That May Not Mean What You Think.”
Lisa Rinna writer of “You Better Believe I’m Gonna Talk About It.”
T.C. Boyle.
Melissa Febos.
Shawn Harris.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein writer of “The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and nan Cosmic Dream Boogie.”
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Myung J. Chun has been a photographer pinch nan Los Angeles Times since 1999. He started arsenic a still photographer and past moved to videography from 2007 to 2018. Chun won an Emmy successful 2011 for his activity connected a multimedia task astir guiltless victims of pack violence. He antecedently worked for nan Los Angeles Daily News, a position he started successful 1988 while attending Cal State Northridge.
Sophia Kercher is simply a elder editor for nan intermezo and features sections astatine nan Los Angeles Times. She oversees books and wellness. She has been penning and editing stories astir L.A. for complete a decade. Her activity has appeared successful nan New York Times, Variety, Vogue, Vulture, Elle, Women’s Health, Los Angeles Magazine and LAist, among different publications. Previously, she was nan founding editor of Los Angeleno, a section integer arts and civilization publication, and served arsenic a elder editor astatine Pasadena Magazine. As a civilization reporter, she’s covered opera successful Tijuana, pawnshops that hawk Oscars, nan precocious desert’s mother of dragon sounds, and capacity creation aerobics classes. She ever sounds 2 books astatine once.
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