LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Bellantoni has been assistant managing editor, politics for the Los Angeles Times since August 2015. She came to theTimes after 12 years covering politics in Washington, most recently as editor-in-chief at Roll Call. Before that, she served as political editor at PBS NewsHour for... Read More →

Almond is the author of ten books of fiction and non-fiction, most recently "Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country." His work has appeared in the Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize anthology, the New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. He hosts the New... Read More →

Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and bestselling author. He has lectured on economics, journalism and tax policy on every continent except Antarctica and is a former president of Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE). Johnston teaches at Syracuse University... Read More →

Kendzior is the author of "The View from Flyover Country" and an op-ed columnist for the Globe and Mail. She was named by Foreign Policy as one of the "100 people you should be following on Twitter to make sense of global events," and her reporting has been featured in Politico... Read More →