Among the highlights of the first day of the L.A. Times Festival of Books were talks by susanorlean and DrPatSoonShiong bookfest
Susan Orlean cracked open her book and bent toward the microphone.at downtown L.A.’s Central Library. “Pages flared and blackened and then sprang away from their bindings, a ream of sooty scraps soaring on the updraft.”, read from her latest book during a public discussion on the first day of the event.
On Saturday, Elena G. Ter-Petrosyan — who has attended the festival in past years with her dad and brother — stumbled upon the International Printing Museum booth. The 17-year-old with a Penguin Classics tote bag in hand made a bookmark with a quote from Dr. Seuss, one of her favorite childhood authors.“This Festival of Books,” she said, “is a meeting for all unique people.”
The Times’ deputy managing editor for arts and entertainment, Julia Turner, told the volunteer that neither she nor Orlean grew up in L.A. What was the routine, she asked?Orlean started the event by summarizing the fire that inspired her book.
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