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Book festival tix

Free tickets to hear panels at this month's L.A. Times Festival of Books can be grabbed on Ticketmaster starting at noon Sunday. Authors who will be speaking include Madeleine Albright, T.C. Boyle, Ray Bradbury, Ron Chernow, Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark, Michael Connelly & Miles Corwin, Frank Deford & Bill Plaschke, Jared Diamond, Sir Harold Evans, Carrie Fisher, Elizabeth George, Sue Grafton, Tony Hillerman, Eric Idle, James Ivory, Ron Kovic, Phil Lesh, John Rechy, Jane Smiley, Walter Mosley, James Patterson, Sally Ride, Howard Rosenberg, Alexander McCall Smith, Liz Smith and Jack Welch. The festival is April 23-24 at UCLA. I will be at the Angel City Press booth on Saturday (the 23rd) from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.


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