LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Abcarian is a Los Angeles Times columnist and blogger. She writes a weekly column for the print edition about California culture and politics and posts frequently on her blog about national news. A UC Berkeley graduate with a journalism degree from Boston University, she covered the... Read More →

Kaufman is a staff writer at the LA Times, where she has covered film, celebrity, and pop culture since 2009. She reports from industry events like the Academy Awards, the Sundance Film Festival and the Grammys. In addition to profiling hundreds of stars—Lady Gaga, Julia Roberts... Read More →

Kim is a Metro reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining the paper in 2007, she has covered the state and federal courts and the Korean community in Los Angeles. Her work has included investigations on the cover-up of the sex abuse scandal in the Los Angeles Archdiocese... Read More →

Mason covers state government and politics in Sacramento. She first began working for the Los Angeles Times in 2011 in Washington, D.C., where she covered money and politics during the 2012 presidential campaign. She is originally from Los Angeles and is a graduate of Georgetown... Read More →

Whipp covers film and television for the Los Angeles Times and serves as columnist for The Envelope, the Los Angeles Times’ awards season publication.