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LitFest Pasadena Launches Saturday May 12
Arts May 10, 2012
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Inaugural festival features authors from Pulitzer Prize-winners to emerging voices
The Pasadena area’s first community-wide book festival-LitFest Pasadena — will be held the day before Mother’s Day, this Saturday, May 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Central Park (275 S. Raymond Avenue). Admission is free.
Although rain forced the postponement of the original date in March, the sun will be out for all that was previously in store — and more: a celebratory day of readings and panel discussions featuring well-known local and California authors, hands-on activities for young people, good food, better books, and great fun, all aimed at promoting the literary arts.
Panel discussions will explore topics such as 21st Century Noir; The Rise of the Graphic Novel; Local L. A. Publishers: Where New York Dominates, L.A. Innovates; The L.A. Canvas; and History, Fiction…Truth?
Confirmed authors include Pulitzer Prize-winners Jonathan Gold and Daniel Howe; novelists, Michelle Huneven, David Ebershoff, and Lian Dolan; poet and Young Adult author Ron Koertge; scholar and Libros Schmibros founder David Kipen; and L.A. mystery writer Denise Hamilton. More than 40 publishers and vendors will have books by these and other authors available for sale at the event.
LitFest Pasadena is a project of the Pasadena Arts Council’s EMERGE Fiscal
Sponsorship Program. All support is tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. Light Bringer Project, the Pasadena Public Library, and the Pasadena Writing Project are also participating organizations.
