Ladies and Gentlemen,

My favorite time of year is coming up. The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is only a week away.

I’ll be moderating a bang-up panel on Saturday April 22nd, at 11:00am with four fantastic authors:

Marcy Dermansky

Gina Frangello

Jon Raymond

Lisa See

The title of our panel is “Everybody’s Got One: Fiction & Families,” but we’ll be talking much more than family, no doubt.

Possible side-topics include: Pu’er tea, writing like Haruki Murakami, desire, and the legacy of violence.

Come listen and then ask a weird question!