Tens of thousands of people gathered on Saturday at the 30th Los Angeles Times book festival at the USC, packing exhausted panels and waiting in large lines to obtain the signatures of their favorite authors.
The annual festival presents readings, projection and panels with authors and other speakers. The two -day event is expected to gather more than 550 storytelling narrators in seven outdoor scenarios and 15 interior places.
It was too early to know how many people attended the first day of the event, which is announced as the largest literary festival in the country. But the sun shone after a rainy morning, and an organizer said that the festival looked “super full”, estimating up or 85,000 people would say at the end of the day.
Among the presenters of Saturday were Matthew Speckor and Griffin Dunne, both memories authors who explore the growth in Hollywood. They talked to the former editor and critic of Times books, David L. Ulin, before a crowd of more than 150 people in the city of USC and the dressed dance hall.
Spets is the author of several novels and non -fiction books, including “The Golden Hour: a Story of Family and Power in Hollywood.” In “The club on Friday afternoon: a family memory”, Dunne describes the intimate moments through his life, count of his late father, the journalist Dominick Dunne, and his late uncle and aunt, the famous writers John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion.
Duration The midday panel, Thin addressed a more recent family issue: the posthumous publication of “Notes to John” by Didion, which presents entries in written magazine for her husband, in which she describes her conversations and possible.
Dunne said he learned of the publication of the work deeply personal only one day before he was announced publicly.
“I could argue about how she would have felt about both parties,” he said. “She was a reporter in her own life.”
Also at noon, more than 100 people gathered within the Eileen Norris Cinema Theater to listen to the authors EA Hanks, Laurie Woolever, Sloane Crosley and Kareem Rosser discuss the pain of writing and processing with the moderator Elizabeth Crane.
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The authors reflected on the nature and stages of the duration of the complaint, the one -hour panel. Many experienced dual losses, entering their writing process thinking that they would reflect on a loss, just for another to occur.
“Even those five internships exist, it is so non -line,” said Crane, who has written numerous fiction works, as well as a debut memory.
There were humorous moments in the midst of the stories of the tragedy of the writers. The crowd laughed while Crosley and Hanks joked about good Spotify reproduction lists to listen to writing on suicide.
In “The complaint is for people,” Crosley regrets the jewels he loses in a robbery, until he is forced to consider the loss of her best friend and suicide mentor.
Hanks is the author of “The 10: a Memoir of Family and the Open Road”, who follows his trip traveling only in the interstate 10 while trying to process the life and death of his mother, as well as the death of a nearby friend. She is the daughter of Tom Hanks and her first wife, the deceased Susan Dillingham, who used the artistic name Samantha Lewes.
Hanks also shared an idea of the writing process on the complaint.
“If someone is out there and trying to write, know that he improves,” Hanks said “suffocation” after receiving his first book. “This book tok a decade, so the catharsis of the publication … it was my creative recovery.”
Paige Perorbo and Hannah Berner, co-elbitations of the popular podcast “The Giggly Squad”, brought a cheerful but sincere conversation to the main stage of the festival at the beginning of the afternoon. The comic duo this month launched: “How to laugh: a guide to take life in a less serious way”, a book of advice that resembles a teenage magazine of early 200,000 full of comedies, exclusive photos of the famous best friends.
“I didn’t know we had so many intelligent,” said Berner, while greeted a multitude of fans of the foot room, known as “gigglers.”
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Duration A conversation modernized by the editor of the Times Wellness Alyssa Bereznak, Interuro and Berner opened about the beginning of their friendship, experiences on reality of reality and how they deal with anxiety. While they made fun of the melas and shared the hot shot, their jokes were laughing and laughing.
When asked how to find a close friendship like the only one shared, exorbo replied: “You have to find the person with whom you can really be yourself.”
The Festival began on Friday night with the 45th awards ceremony of the Los Angeles Times book at the Bovard Auditorium of the USC. The awards recognize outstanding literary achievements and celebrate the highest quality of ingenuity of the authors at all stages of their careers.
The winners were announced in 13 categories for works published last year. Find a complete Winners list here.
In addition, the award -winning Author Pico Iyer received the Robert Kirsch prize for life achievement, and the famous poet Amanda Gorman received the innovative prize for his labor promotion literacy, Empower Issens.
The ceremony was inaugurated with comments from the executive editor of Times Terry Tang and was Emced by Times Columnist Lz Grandon.
“In a world that, now feeling so confusing and distressing, this weekend gives us the opportunity to find a sense of unity, purpose and support,” Tang said.
The book festival extends until Sunday. More information can be found, including an event schedule, on the festival website.
