{"id":737682,"date":"2026-04-19T00:14:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/737682\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T00:14:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:14:04","slug":"photos-from-the-2026-l-a-times-festival-of-books-at-usc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/737682\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos from the 2026 L.A. Times Festival of Books at USC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The \u201cCoachella of books\u201d has arrived. The biggest literary event in the country, the L.A. Times Festival of Books<\/a>, kicked off at USC this weekend. The 31st annual event features more than 500 authors, including Lionel Richie, Tina Knowles, Larry David, Pat Benatar, Amy Tan<\/a>, Anne Lamott and more. Several of these talented individuals stopped by the L.A. Times photo studio to have their portraits taken between spirited panel discussions and book signings. <\/p>\n

Here are some portrait highlights from the 2026 Festival of Books: <\/p>\n

\"Tom \"Lisa <\/p>\n

Lisa Rinna author of \u201cYou Better Believe I\u2019m Gonna Talk About It.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"Roda \"Morgan <\/p>\n

Morgan Hutchinson and Brett Hutchinson.<\/p>\n

\"Valerie \"Daniel <\/p>\n

Daniel Humme and Roda Ahmed.<\/p>\n

\"Mimi \"Rachel <\/p>\n

Rachel Renee Russell, Presli Noelle James, Kim James, Nikki Russell and Cori James.<\/p>\n

\"Max \"Lauren \"Mychal \"Kate \"Hayley \"Danica \"Eli \"Melissa \"Reyna \"Dr. \"Karen \"Kylie \"Fanta \"Jade \"Amanda \"Remica \"Hannah \"Stacey \"John \"Nate \"Bess \"Lana \"Jason \"Stuart \"Mac \"Shawn \"Elizabeth \"Allison \"T.C. \"Chet'la <\/p>\n

Chet\u2019la Sebree 2026 finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Poetry for her collection \u201cBlue Opening.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Chanda <\/p>\n

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cCoachella of books\u201d has arrived. The biggest literary event in the country, the L.A. Times Festival of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":737683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[258180,304649,13978,1022,1582,276,304647,2961,304648,40717,85039,224,2444,5337,174852,20517,42381,155278,11016,9953],"class_list":["post-737682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-amy-tan","tag-anne-lamott","tag-book","tag-books","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-l-a-times-festival","tag-la","tag-la-times-festival","tag-larry-david","tag-lionel-richie","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-pat-benatar","tag-photo","tag-portrait","tag-tina-knowles","tag-usc","tag-weekend"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}