For the past nine years, USC has hosted the L.A. Times Festival of books, a staple of the springtime social calendar, without incident. On Saturday, as in the years before, thousands of Angelenos poured onto the university’s campus, which is transformed into an amusement park for bibliophiles. But even as visitors sought a weekend diversion, […]
Karla T. Vasquez Created an Instagram Account to Preserve Her Salvadoran Roots
Karla T. Vazquez began documenting and preserving recipes passed down from generation to generation back in 2014, and it wasn’t until 2016 that she took the leap to create a website and start her Instagram account @SalviSoul–a cookbook storytelling project. In 2017, she left her job to pursue the project full-time. “Since then it’s been […]
Anabel Hernández Risked Her Life to Tell the Story of 43 Missing Mexican Students
Anabel Hernández will stop at nothing in search of the truth. Her investigative journalism on Mexican drug trafficking, alleged collusion of government officials and drug lords, and the Mexican government’s abuse of power has put her life in danger. After the publication of her first book, Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and their Godfathers, she […]
Justine Bateman Gets Why You Want to Be Famous
Justine Bateman became a household name as a teenager when she played Mallory Keaton on Family Ties. That show ended in 1989, 30 years ago this spring, but it’s not what Bateman will be talking about at the L.A. Times Festival of Books on Sunday, April 14. Mallory’s long gone, while Bateman continues to work […]