The LA Times Festival of Books is this weekend (April 30th – May 1st)! If you live in the Southern California area this is a wonderful FREE event filled with hundreds of authors, artists, and book lovers! There’s even a children’s book stage (bring your kids) and a YA Stage! Not to mention the plethora of panel discussions happening all around the USC campus! (That’s right a new location at USC this year).
Find General Information about the event here: LA Times Festival of Books
Learn about the panel discussions and schedule of events here: Schedule of Events
The YA Stage and Children’s Book Stage Schedule is here: Saturday Schedule and Sunday Schedule
Also, if you’re interested in writing your own web-series check out the great new book Byte Size Television written by the wonderful teacher and screenwriter Ross Brown. He will be selling and signing his book from 3-4pm on Sunday at the Chapman University Booth #226.
Celebrate books, wear sunscreen, and have fun!
How great is the design of this cover? Check it out at your local bookstore--it's amazingly tactile and perfect for this book.
Engineers of the Soul author Frank Westerman will be coming to the U.S. in a few weeks for the PEN World Voices festival and the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. If you're in New York or LA, mark your calendars for these events!
Thursday, April 28, 20119:30am
Working Day: PEN World Voices Keynote AddressesKeynote speakers: Anthony Appiah, Toni Morrison, Charles Norman, Dale Peck, Ghassan Salamé, John Ralston Saul, Vladimir Sorokin, G. M. Tamás, and Frank Westerman.
The Desmond Tutu Center Refectory 180 10th Avenue New York CitySaturday, April 30, 2011 4:00pm
Screening of Kara Bogaz - The Black Mouth Introduction by Frank Westerman and book presentation of Engineers of the Soul
Sponsored by PEN World Voices Festival for International Literature
Admission: $5
Instituto Cervantes 211-215 E. 49th Street New York CitySunday, May 1, 201112noon
Los Angeles Times Festival of BooksPanel Discussion (2082): Tell the Truth but Tell it Slant
Moderator: John Freeman (with Avrom Bendavid-Val, Geoff Dyer, Pico Iyer, Frank Westerman)
Davidson Conference Center USC CampusMonday, May 2, 20116pm
Presentation of Engineers of the Soul and Screening of Kara Bogaz
Crawford Family Forum
Sponsored by Southern California Public Radio / 89.3 KPCC and RareBird Lit
474 South Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA
What’s your favorite word? On Wordie.org, a website launched last year by John McGrath, you can post lists of “words you love, words you hate, whatever.” So far, about 4,800 users (”Wordies”) have posted a total of 264,000 words, 90,000 of which are unique. In this efflorescence of logophilia, what word strikes the fancy of the most Wordies? Topping the list of the “most wordied” words is schadenfreude, submitted by 250 users. This German loanword, defined by the New Oxford American Dictionary as “pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune,” easily outpaces runners-up like quixotic, serendipity, loquacious, and plethora. (If defenestrate and defenestration joined forces, that handy term for throwing someone out a window would come in a close second.) What does it say about Web-savvy language lovers that the word they find most notable describes malicious mirth in the misery of others? Are we all just a bunch of sadists?
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The LA Times Festival of Books is this weekend (April 30th – May 1st)! If you live in the Southern California area this is a wonderful FREE event filled with hundreds of authors, artists, and book lovers! There’s even a children’s book stage (bring your kids) and a YA Stage! Not to mention the plethora of panel discussions happening all around the USC campus! (That’s right a new location at USC this year).
The YA Stage and Children’s Book Stage Schedule is here: Saturday Schedule and Sunday Schedule
w00t! I was there last year! Here’s hoping I can sneak in that morning for a few hours…