We are so excited to attend the 2026 LA Times Festival of Books as an exhibitor on April 18-19. We will be in Booth 135 in the Gold Zone on Trousdale Parkway. Any news leading up to the festival will be updated on this page. Visit us at our booth to see our latest merchandise drop, author signings, special signed copies, and to say hello.
Signed Books from Taylor Jenkins Reid!
Bestselling author Taylor Jenkins Reid visited us and signed copies of her books, which will only be available at our booth during the festival!
Taylor is the the author of the New York Times Bestselling novels Atmosphere, Carrie Soto Is Back, Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones and The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, as well as One True Loves, Maybe in Another Life, After I Do, and Forever, Interrupted.
AUTHOR BOOTH SIGNINGS
Carolyn Huynh, Amy Spalding, Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Anna Dorn, Matthew Gudernatch, Drew Daywalt, Nora Lange, Rachel Khong
Carolyn Huynh: Saturday, April 18 at 11:00am
Carolyn Huynh is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. She loves writing about acerbic women who never learn from their mistakes, but yearn for joy. Her debut novel, The Fortunes of Jaded Women, was a Good Morning America book club pick, picked as one of the best books of 2022 by NPR, and also a Book of the Month pick. She was a semi-finalist for the 2025 Geffen Playhouse Writer’s Room, participated in EST/LA’s Ignite Project, and is an inaugural playwright for Artist at Play’s Neighborhood Project. A former Rideback Rise Fellow, she spent the year adapting her forthcoming book, Fetal Position into a feature. She’s received residencies from Millay Arts Colony and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. A homegrown Californian, she resides in Los Angeles with her partner, daughter, and demon girl dog. When she’s not writing, Carolyn daydreams about having iced coffee on a rooftop in Ho Chi Minh City.
The Family Recipe
The Fortunes of Jaded Women
Fetal Position (Signed Pre-Order)
$28.00
Amy Spalding: Saturday, April 18 at 12:00pm
Amy Spalding is the author of several novels, including the bestselling For Her Consideration, We Used to Be Friends, and The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles), which was named a best book of 2018 by NPR, the Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews, and more. She is a recipient of the 2023 Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award for the authentic, funny, and diverse representation of the LGBTQ+ community in her books. Amy grew up in St. Louis and now lives in Los Angeles. She has a B.A. in Advertising & Marketing Communications from Webster University and an M.A. in Media Studies from The New School. Amy studied longform improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.
In Her Spotlight
On Her Terms
At Her Service
For Her Consideration
Jasmin Iolani Hakes: Saturday, April 18 at 1:00pm
Jasmin Iolani Hakes is the author of THE POHAKU and HULA, named a Best Book of the Summer by Harper’s Bazaar and ELLE, best debut novel of 2023 by Booklist, HONOLULU Magazine’s 2024 Book of the Year, and winner of an Audiofile Earphones Award. She is of mixed ethnicity and is in part a product of those who migrated to the Hawaiian Kingdom to labor in the sugarcane industry from all over the world, including Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and the Portuguese Islands of Madeira and the Azores. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Lithub, and the Sacramento Bee. She is the recipient of the Best Fiction award from the Southern California Writers Conference, a Community of Writers LoJo Foundation Scholarship, a Writing by Writers Emerging Voices fellowship, and residencies from Hedgebrook, VCCA, and Storyknife. She lives in Los Angeles.
The Pōhaku
Hula
Anna Dorn: Saturday, April 18 at 2:30pm
Anna Dorn is the author of the novels Perfume and Pain, Exalted, Vagablonde, and AmericanSpirits. Exalted was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She lives in Los Angeles.
Matthew Gudernatch: Sunday, April 19 at 11:00am
Matthew began writing children's books for his daughters, turning an early poem of his into the book, The People Who Can't Meet You. That book, brilliantly illustrated by Winona Kieslich, has gone on to win multiple indie writing awards, and was featured in Oprah's Book Club and Oprah Daily.
You may recognize Matthew from his author feature on KTLA, or for his acting work on shows like Black-ish, The Daily Show, and American Dad!. His one-person show, titled “My Mom Died When I Was 14 (A Comedy),” went on to win the Producers Award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival and toured across the country, including an Off-Broadway run.
The People Who Can't Meet You
Drew Daywalt: Sunday, April 19 at 1:00pm
Drew Daywalt is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the children's picture book The Day The Crayons Quit. His books have sold 5 million copies and he’s received dozens of awards for his writing, including the covetted E.B. White Read Aloud Award and the Time Magazine Top 100 Best Children’s Books of All Time. His latest middle grade novel, No Sam! and the Meow of Deception is the follow-up to the instant New York Times bestseller and Indie Next pick, They Call Me No Sam! that tells the tale of a naughty but lovable pug and his adoptive family. His more recent title includes Forty the Fortune Teller.
Forty the Fortune Teller
The Day the Crayons Quit
No Sam! and the Meow of Deception
Nora Lange: Sunday, April 19 at 2:30pm
Nora Lange’s debut novel Us Fools was awarded the The Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction, was named a best book of 2024 by The Boston Globe and NPR, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. An earlier iteration of it was shortlisted for The Novel Prize from New Directions Press. Nora’s short writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The Believer, BOMB, Denver Quarterly, HTMLGIANT and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Brown University and is a fellow at USC’s Los Angeles Institute of the Humanities. Her best friend is a three-year-old watercolorist named Sylvia Rainer.
Day Care
Us Fools
Rachel Khong: Sunday, April 19 at 3:00pm
I’m a writer living in Los Angeles. My debut novel, Goodbye, Vitamin, won the 2017 California Book Award for First Fiction, and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for First Fiction. From 2011 to 2016, I was the managing editor then executive editor of Lucky Peach magazine. With Lucky Peach, I also edited a cookbook about eggs, called All About Eggs. In 2018, I founded The Ruby, a work and event space for women and nonbinary writers and artists in San Francisco’s Mission district; I retired at the end of 2021. My second novel, Real Americans, was published by Knopf in April 2024, and was an instant New York Times bestseller. My story collection, My Dear You, is forthcoming from Knopf in April 2026. I write the monthly newsletter, Short Story Short. Along with my friends Meng Jin, Susanna Kwan, and Shruti Swamy I teach writing workshops and retreats. Find us at The Dream Side.
