Tuesday, April 28

Conversation with Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot is returning to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books for the first time since the release of "The Princess Diaries" and just in time for the festival's first ever Young Adult Stage. Read more...

Photo: Meg Cabot will speak Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in Ackerman Grand Ballroom.


Hungry? Check out the Cooking Stage

After a high-grossing movie charmed Julia Child's name back into the public conscious, a new season of Top Chef Masters kicked off on Bravo and activities continue to bubble in food blog-land "“ it seems that cooking is getting more attention by the hour. Read more...


Celebrity authors share their second art

Whether they are actors, political activists or even the second man to walk on the moon, stars of all sorts have found the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books to be the perfect place to extend their reach into a different art. Read more...


Drawn Together

The marriage of the visual and the emotional can be found in the graphic memoir, where raw biographies can be flipped through with the ease of a comic book and admired with the power of a Greek narrative. Read more...

Photo: Cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel memoir, “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic,” was selected as the best book of 2006 by Time. Bechdel will be at Royce Hall tonight for a spoken word performance.



A “˜Midsummer Night’ on a spring morning

Unless you're already well-versed in Shakespearean language, it isn't uncommon to find yourself appreciating the poetry at a Shakespeare production but not knowing exactly what's going on in the story. Read more...

Photo: Children attend one of the Geffen Playhouse’s “Saturday Scene” performances. The playhouse will present “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” this Saturday.


Lessons from UCLA translate to Texas show

Tammy Nguyen never thought she'd find success as a producer when she moved out of Los Angeles and back to Texas. Read more...

Photo: UCLA alumna Tammy Nguyen is a producer behind the new WE tv reality show “Girl Meets Gown.”