{"id":1331,"date":"2005-04-09T15:21:45","date_gmt":"2005-04-09T20:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1331"},"modified":"2005-04-13T13:32:44","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T18:32:44","slug":"los_angeles_tim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/09\/los_angeles_tim\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> Festival of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While there&rsquo;s considerable debate as to whether residents of Los Angeles read\nbooks, at the very least, we hold big festivals celebrating them. The tenth incarnation\nof the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/extras\/festivalofbooks\/index.html\"><em>Los\nAngeles Times<\/em> Festival of Books<\/a> lands later this month on the UCLA\ncampus, and offers tons of signings, readings and discussion panels. Chitra Divakaruni,\nPico Iyer and Ved Mehta are among the authors expected to hold court on the following\ntopics:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>Saturday, April 23<\/p>\n<p>10:30 AM &#8211; The Challenges Facing Latin America: Politics &amp; Art<br>\nModerator: Marjorie Miller. Panelists: Ann Louise Bardach, Pico Iyer, Alvaro\nVargas Llosa and Tom Miller.<\/p>\n<p>11:00 AM &#8211; Writers in Exile<br>\nModerator: Karen Stabiner. Panelists: Chris Abani, Ved Mehta and Loung Ung.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, April 24<\/p>\n<p>11:30 AM &#8211; Fiction: Searching for Our Ideal Reader<br>\nModerator Paula Woods. Panelists: Elizabeth Berg, Chitra Divakaruni, Janet Fitch\nand Lisa See.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there&rsquo;s considerable debate as to whether residents of Los Angeles read books, at the very least, we hold big festivals celebrating them. The tenth incarnation of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books lands later this month on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/09\/los_angeles_tim\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}