LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Epps is an award-winning stand-up comic/actor/producer/writer. He has won two NAACP Image Awards and his film and TV credits include “Sparkle,” “Nina,” “The Hangover,” “Girls Trip,” “Meet the Blacks,” “Next Friday,” “All About the Benjamins,” and the... Read More →

Fleishman is a senior writer on film, art and culture for the LA Times. A 2002 Nieman fellow at Harvard University, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing. A longtime foreign correspondent, he served as bureau chief for The Times in Cairo and Berlin, and was previously... Read More →