LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Tschorn is a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, where his fashion and popular culture coverage focusing on men’s style and the grooming arts can be found online daily and in the Image section on Sunday. He holds a BA in philosophy and an MA in journalism, which has prepared... Read More →

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 →

Halper is the Sacramento Bureau Chief of the Los Angeles Times. He has been covering the Capitol since 2002, writing about the state’s political dysfunction and seemingly endless fiscal crisis through the administrations of three governors. He has also worked in the paper’s Orange... Read More →

Parvini is a reporter on the Los Angeles Times’ Metro desk covering breaking news and stories throughout the state (but sometimes, you’ll catch her somewhere like Iowa reporting on infectious diseases). She speaks fluent Persian and conversational Spanish and Italian. A San Diego... Read More →