Alta Journal returns to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Saturday, April 22, and Sunday, April 23, and this year, we’re hosting two days of book signings by California authors. That includes five past California Book Club authors—and two future ones! If you’re planning to attend the festival, please stop by Alta’s booth (#111) to meet some of these incredible writers.
Map of Festival
Alta Booth Author Book Signings
Authors will sign their books for 15 minutes.
Saturday, April 22
Rachel Howzell Hall
11 a.m.
Author of We Lie Here and “Breakdown in the Right Lane” (register for her upcoming Alta Live interview)
Kelly Lytle Hernández
11:30 a.m.
Author of Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (California Book Club author, September 2023; sign up for information about the event)
Natalia Molina
Noon
Author of A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community (California Book Club author, October 2022; watch her CBC interview)
Rachel Kushner
1 p.m.
Author of The Mars Room (California Book Club author, May 2021; watch her CBC interview)
Andrew Sean Greer
2 p.m.
Author of Less (California Book Club author, February 2023; watch his CBC interview)
Luis J. Rodriguez — CANCELLED
3 p.m.
Author of Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. (California Book Club author, July 2022; watch his CBC interview)
Jane Smiley
4 p.m.
Author of A Dangerous Business (register for her upcoming Alta Live interview)
Sunday, April 23
Naomi Hirahara
10:30 a.m.
Author of Clark and Division (California Book Club author, August 2023; sign up for information about the event)
Cory Doctorow
11 a.m.
Coauthor of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back (watch his Alta Live interview)
Steph Cha
Noon
Author of Your House Will Pay (California Book Club author, June 2022; watch her CBC interview)
Tod Goldberg
1 p.m.
Author of The Low Desert (watch his Alta Live interview)
Charles Finch
2 p.m.
Author of What Just Happened: Notes on a Long Year
Matthew Zapruder
3 p.m.
Author of Story of a Poem and “Sunflower Poem” (watch his Alta Live interview)
How to Attend
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books includes more than 550 authors, poets, musicians, and chefs at indoor venues and outdoor stages. Most events are free. For complete festival information, visit events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks.•
