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Gallery: ‘What are you reading?’: LA Times Festival of Books gathers literature lovers

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April 28, 2026
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Book lovers shuffled through narrow aisles as crowds gathered at the heart of the University of Southern California campus for the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The festival hosted about 150,000 attendees and more than 500 authors and celebrities April 18 and 19. Hundreds of authors and publishers set up along the USC campus, offering conversations with participants.

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