An impressive line-up for the 2010 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Other than the usual suspects of local Southern California authors, we have some heavyweights:
- Andre Aciman
- Mark Danielewski
- Dave Eggers
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Yann Martel
- Maile Meloy
- Colson Whitehead
- Elizabeth Crane
Congrats to the organizers for putting together such a great lineup. Also, check out the other authors appearing.
The festival dates for 2010 are April 24-25, and BookFox will be covering it for the fourth year running. If you’re going, drop me a line — always fun to chat with people.
Unfortunately, although Ticketmaster waived the ticket fees for as long as I’ve been going to the festival, this year they’re adding a surcharge: 75 cents. Hardly the exorbitant fees they normally charge, but a bit disappointing that in an economic trough they add a surcharge.
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I really enjoyed the event especially seeing Dave Eggers and Carol Burnett. Talking with people in the booths was fun. UCLA was a wonderful venue for this. I picked up a preview copy of a fabulous new book that will be available in August, 2010, entitled “Little Gifts of Sustainable Contentment,” by C.J. Good. It is the sort of book that I am always wishing for–compelling and pleasing to read, and at the same time inviting and intellectually engaging. This book of daily reflections highlights the existential quandary of how to get in touch with one’s own longings and ambitions, with grace and truth, while also acknowledging the pressures and realities of our consumer-based society. Transfixed and mesmerized, I could not lay it down, and gobbled it up in two hours. I was sorry to have reached the end of it, and I did something I seriously rarely do – I have started reading it again! Very, very slowly.