Anyone going to the LA Times Book Festival?

[Beaverhausen]

I'm going on Sunday. Hoping to get there early enough to hear Madeline Albright. Hope it doesn't rain.

Here is a list of panels that should be of interest:

Panel Discussions:

Saturday at UCLA Festival of Books (April 23)

10:00 AM - Interrogation or Torture: Human Rights After 9/11 ~ Ackerman
Grand Ballroom ~ PANEL 1121 Moderator Mr. Steve Wasserman, Mr. Max
Boot (GOP LA Times) Mr. Angelo M. Codevilla, Mr. Mark Danner (Abu
Ghraib), Mr. Robert Scheer (LA Times)

11:30 AM - America Looks Forward: Tapping the Politics of Fear
Schoenberg Hall ~ PANEL 1032 Moderator Mr. Barry Glassner, Mr. Tariq
Ali Columbia U. Prof)
Dr. Peter Whybrow, Mr. Michael Ybarra

11:30 AM - Lies, Deceit, & Cover-ups
Korn Convocation Hall ~ PANEL 1072
Moderator Mr. Larry Beinhart, Mr. Eric Alterman (Media Accuracy)
Mr. John W. Dean (Watergate),Ms. Maureen Dowd (NY Times)
Dr. Michael Shermer, Mr. Jon Wiener (Nation Mag)

3:30 PM - On the Front Lines: Covering War
Haines 39 ~ PANEL 1044
Moderator Ms. Marjorie Miller, Mr. Mark Bowden
Mr. Chris Hedges (Vietnam War), Mr. Terry McDermott

4:00 PM - Born on the 4th of July: Ron Kovic in Conversation with
Robert Scheer
Ackerman Grand Ballroom ~ PANEL 1124_-
Ron Started Vietnam Vets Against the War (VVAW)_

SUNDAY at UCLA Festival of Books (April 24)

10:00 AM - Searching for a Civil Society:
America's Contemporary Political Culture
Moore 100 ~ PANEL 2101
Moderator Mr. Michael Kinsley, Mr. Tom Hayden (helped start SDS)
Ms. Tamar Jacoby, Mr. Matthew Miller, Ms. Kay Mills,
Ms. Katrina Vanden Heuval (Editor Nation Mag.)

1:00 PM - Are We Making the World Safe for Democracy?
Royce Hall ~ PANEL 2052
Moderator Mr. Matthew Miller, Ms. Amy Goodman (Democracy Now),
Mr. Sergio Ramirez, Mr. David Rieff, Mr. Charles R. Kesler

1:30 PM - The Future of the American Military
Haines 39 ~ PANEL 2043
Moderator Mr. Leo Braudy, Mr. Andrew J. Bacevich,
Ms. Linda Robinson, Mr. Evan Wright

[Book Lover]

1. If I were free to be in SoCal, I'd be there!

Hopefully next year :-)

[Pithy Cherub]

2. Madeleine Albright was great and Jared Diamond

was subperb!

But Saturday was awesome: Neocon Max Boot was booed (audience was really riled) for trying to define torture as just 'good cop bad cop and not letting people sleep, Mark Danner just made Boot really look stupid and De collville(sp) (from Claremont) was humorous in a deadly serious manner and Robert Scheer was Robert Scheer:)! Then MoDo and Alterman, John Dean, Sherman and Weiner were a riot on The Lies and Deceptions panel. Sherman listed the criterion to be classified as a cult and Dean said the bush administration... MoDo was funny too on the ends justifying the means and that usually means there will be bodies everywhere hence...!

These are truly some of the Best Book weekends on the planet! :applause:

LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT!:party:

[Beaverhausen]

3. I missed Madeline Albright damn it!!! Did hear Amy Goodman and

Anne Lamott among others. Anne Lamott was fantastic. She is a far left christian and she read the first chapter of her new book called "Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith"

Stood near the fabulous Katrina Van denHuevel from the Nation (I was in line and couldn't get out of it and talk to her)

I wish I had gone both days. what an amazing event.