LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Cohen is the host of Morning Edition on L.A.'s leading NPR member station KPCC. Her work as a reporter can also be heard on NPR and the program "Marketplace." As her roller derby alter-ego, Axles of Evil, Cohen was the trainer and choreographer for the Drew Barrymore roller derby... Read More →

Birkner is the co-founder of the website Modern Loss, and the co-author of "Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome." A digital content strategist and producer, she has served as managing editor at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), director of digital media... Read More →

Doughty--host and creator of "Ask a Mortician" and the New York Times best-selling author of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "From Here to Eternity"—founded the Order of the Good Death. She lives in Los Angeles, where she runs the nonprofit funeral home Undertaking LA.

Shermer is the Publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, and the author of numerous best-selling science books. His latest book is "The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity Toward Truth, Justice... Read More →