{"id":274725,"date":"2026-04-18T22:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274725\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:07:12","slug":"photos-from-the-2026-l-a-times-festival-of-books-at-usc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274725\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos from the 2026 L.A. Times Festival of Books at USC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Sophia Kercher is a senior editor for the entertainment and features sections at the Los Angeles Times. She oversees books and wellness. She has been writing and editing stories about L.A. for over a decade. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Variety, Vogue, Vulture, Elle, Women\u2019s Health, Los Angeles Magazine and LAist, among other publications. Previously, she was the founding editor of Los Angeleno, a local digital arts and culture publication, and served as a senior editor at Pasadena Magazine. As a culture reporter, she\u2019s covered opera in Tijuana, pawnshops that hawk Oscars, the high desert\u2019s mother of dragon sounds, and performance art aerobics classes. She always reads two books at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophia Kercher is a senior editor for the entertainment and features sections at the Los Angeles Times. She&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[118943,93986,24264,647,98623,48,52,51,118941,98618,74455,47,50,49,63,37548,2824,18106,118942,3533,2695],"class_list":["post-274725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-amy-tan","tag-anne-lamott","tag-book","tag-books","tag-l-a-times-festival","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-la-times-festival","tag-larry-david","tag-lionel-richie","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-pat-benatar","tag-photo","tag-portrait","tag-tina-knowles","tag-usc","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}