Laura Dern, Stacey Abrams and Meghan Trainor will join more than 500 authors for the 2023 L.A. Times Festival of Books.
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Singer Meghan Trainor, Oscar-winning actor Laura Dern, California representative Katie Porter and former Georgia lawmaker Stacey Abrams are among the authors set to appear at this year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
On Wednesday, The Times unveiled its lineup for the annual literary celebration, scheduled for April 22 and 23, which will feature more than 500 writers, musicians and artists spread out across USC’s 226-acre campus.
Following last year’s return to a fully in-person festival after the pandemic forced such events to go virtual in 2020, organizer Ann Binney, associate director of events at The Times, said this year’s festival will be “striving to bring it even further back into normalcy and making it even better than it was last year.”
To that effect, the festival will feature its typical programming, with varied high-profile public figures and celebrated authors headlining events, but also new offerings, such as a partnership with Apple TV+, which will present a screening of an episode of its new mystery thriller series “The Last Thing He Told Me,” starring Jennifer Garner and based on the novel by Laura Dave.
Read more at LA Times.