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Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Celebrates 10th Anniversary
April 23-24, 2005 at UCLA
25th Annual Los Angeles Times Book Prize Awards on April 22 to Kick Off Event
LOS ANGELES, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The 10th annual Los Angeles Times
Festival of Books takes place Saturday, April 23, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and
Sunday, April 24, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on UCLA's campus.
The two-day celebration of the written word features a mix of panel
discussions, book signings, poetry readings, cooking demonstrations and music.
The Festival affords book lovers the chance to meet best-selling authors,
publishers and celebrities. The hundreds of exhibitor booths, stage events and
popular children's characters offer a cornucopia of choices for all ages.
General event information about the Festival, including a list of authors, is
available at http://www.latimes.com/events . Information is also available by
calling 1-800-LA TIMES, ext. 7BOOK.
Admission is free, but tickets are required to attend author/panel discussions
and lectures because of limited seating. Free tickets will be available at all
Ticketmaster locations in Southern California starting Sunday, April 17, at
noon until Thursday, April 21, at 5 p.m., or until all tickets have been
distributed. A limited number of tickets will also be available on-site during
the Festival.
Festival Highlights
-- Some 380 authors participating in 96 panels, readings and book signings
-- Six stages showcasing book and poetry readings, cooking demonstrations,
children's storytelling and cartoon characters, and music, drama and
dance performances
-- 25th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prize awards ceremony on April 22
-- More than 400 exhibitor booths representing specialty booksellers and
major book publishers
Literary "Who's Who"
Authors scheduled to appear include Madeleine Albright, Jason Alexander, Tariq
Ali, Ray Bradbury, Stephen Cannell, Mary Higgins Clark, Eoin Colfer, John W.
Dean, Frank Deford, Jared Diamond, Sir Harold Evans, Carrie Fisher, Sue
Grafton, Tony Hillerman, Arianna Huffington, Eric Idle, Pico Iyer, Ron Kovic,
Sanoe Lake, Phil Lesh, Sandra Tsing Loh, Richard Matheson, James McCourt,
Walter Mosley, Carol Muske-Dukes, Lynda Obst, P.J. O'Rourke, T. Jefferson
Parker, Anne Perry, Sally Ride, Carl Reiner, Maria Shriver, Jane Smiley,
Alexander McCall Smith, Hector Tobar, Jack Welch, Rosemary Wells and Amy
Wilentz.
Panel Sessions
Panel sessions focusing on current affairs include "Brave New World: Monopoly,
Media & the Right to Know," "On the Front Lines: Covering War," "Scheherazade's
Daughters: Women in the Middle East," "Discovering California," "Islam Now" and
"Talkin' Baseball with Frank Deford and Bill Plaschke."
Other sessions will focus on:
-- Hollywood -- "Hollywood and the Reds," "Witness to a Persecution: The
Blacklist Revisited," "Fiction: Hollywood Confidential," "The Movie
Biz: Making Deals and Cutting Throats," "Hollywood: Behind the Camera,"
and "From Page to Screen"
-- Politics -- "America Looks Forward: Tapping the Politics of Fear,"
"Searching for a Civil Society: America's Contemporary Political
Culture," "The Politics of Science," "Outsourcing Democracy: Can It
Work?" and "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue"
-- Mystery -- "Mystery: Spies Among Us," "Celebrating Sherlock Holmes,"
and "Mystery, Mayhem and Murder," and "Mystery: Urban Grit"
Among the authors who will be featured in "In Conversation with ... " or "in
solo" sessions are Madeleine Albright, Ray Bradbury, Mary Higgins Clark and
Carol Higgins Clark, Carrie Fisher, Sue Grafton, Tony Hillerman, Eric Idle,
Phil Lesh, Walter Mosley, James Patterson, Sally Ride, Liz Smith, Gay Talese
and Jack Welch.
Six Stages Featuring Celebrities, Discussions, Readings, Family Entertainment
The Target Children's Stage, designed for the entire family, will feature Jason
Alexander, Angelina Ballerina and Katharine Holabird, Bob the Builder, Sasha
Cohen, Al Jardine, Junie B. Jones, the Justin Roberts Band, David Kirk, Jarrett
Krosoczka, Sanoe Lake, Carl Reiner and Rosemary Wells, among others.
Canada Presents the Culinary Stage will proffer the insights of such luminaries
as Tyler Florence, Giada de Laurentiis, and Mary Sue Milliken & Susan Feniger.
The ETC. Stage will feature a variety of speakers and performers including
Boondocks author Aaron McGruder, KPCC's Kitty Felde & the Book Club for Young
Adults, Melvin Eddy Blues Band, WriteGirl and Kishin Daiko Japanese music &
dance.
The Los Angeles Times Stage in partnership with Barnes & Noble will feature
Robert Crais, Alice Hoffman, Eric Idle, Anne Lamott, Maria Shriver and Liz
Smith, among others.
Among the authors gracing the Poetry Stage will be Sophie Cabot Black, Diane di
Prima, Dana Goodyear, Richard Howard, Joshua Mehigan and Carol Muske-Dukes.
The Reading by 9 Storytelling Stage will include Derek Anderson, Beethoven's
Wig, Children's Museum of L.A. Readers Theatre Project, the East-West Players,
Jay-Jay the Jet Plane, Jose-Luis Orozco, Rachel Payne Native American
Storytelling, June Foray, Greathall Productions, Stacia Deutsch, Barney
Saltzberg and readings by Sally Ride, Quincy Troupe, Kadir Nelson and Barbara
Saltzman.
Festival of Books Sponsors
Target is the presenting sponsor of the 2005 Los Angeles Times Festival of
Books. Barnes & Noble, Borders and the Canadian Tourism Commission are major
sponsors, and C-SPAN, HBO and Geffen Playhouse are contributing sponsors.
KCBS-2/KCAL-9 is the official television sponsor of the 2005 Festival of Books.
Other media sponsors are Distinction Southern California magazine, ESPN Radio,
Hoy, KABC-AM, KCRW-FM, KFWB-AM, KKJZ-FM, KPCC-FM, KPFK-FM and Radio Disney. The
official ticket provider is Ticketmaster.
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Awards Ceremony
The 25th annual presentation of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes is set for
Friday, April 22, at 8 p.m., in UCLA's Royce Hall. Best-selling mystery writer
Tony Hillerman will receive the 25th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes'
Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. Author/journalist Sir Harold
Evans will emcee the event.
Tickets are required and are on sale at UCLA's Central Ticket Office
(310-825-2101) and online at http://www.tickets.ucla.edu/. (NOTE: Additional
$2 handling fee for online ticket purchases.) Tickets are $14 for a reserved
seat only and $60 for a buffet dinner (6-7:45 p.m.) with authors at the UCLA
Faculty Center, prime reserved seat at Book Prizes event and convenient parking
at Royce Hall.
The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, established in 1980, recognize outstanding
literary achievements in biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction,
history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science and technology, and young adult
fiction. More information is available at http://www.latimes.com/bookprizes.
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books-one of the nation's premier public
literary festivals and the largest of its kind on the West Coast-was created in
1996 by The Times to promote literacy and to bring together those who create
books with the people who love to read them. It is presented in association
with UCLA.
The Los Angeles Times, a Tribune Publishing company, is the largest
metropolitan daily newspaper in the country and the winner of 35 Pulitzer
Prizes. The Times publishes five daily regional editions including the Los
Angeles metropolitan area, Orange and Ventura counties, the San Fernando
Valley, and an Inland Empire edition covering Riverside and San Bernardino
counties. Additional information about The Times is available at
http://www.latimes.com/mediacenter.
DATASOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
CONTACT: Mike Lange of The Los Angeles Times, +1-213-237-3848, or
Web site: http://www.latimes.com/