Books

Actor Titus Welliver will present the award at Saturday’s star-studded ceremony on the University Park Campus.

It’s a bit of a paradox, USC Dornsife’s Emily Anderson notes: Readers often look like they’re all alone, and yet, “you’re with these characters, you’re with the author, you’re in another world.”

The English professor’s novel James offers a searing retelling of a Mark Twain classic — and has now earned fiction’s highest honor.

Wallis Annenberg Hall and the USC Stage will feature Trojans during the two-day L.A. Times Festival of Books on the University Park Campus.

Looking for a good read? Faculty members from the USC Rossier School of Education have these suggestions.

The event has grown into the nation’s largest literary and cultural festival. Learn more, and check out our photo gallery.

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which continues through Sunday, will draw an estimated 150,000 people to the University Park Campus.

Michael Ausiello wrote a heartbreaking — yet darkly funny — memoir after his husband’s death. It’s now a movie starring Jim Parsons, opening Friday.

Michele Harper shared stories of compassion from her book, The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir.

Hiram Sims opens the Sims Library of Poetry, a space for people from Inglewood and the rest of Los Angeles to read, write and create.