2012 Literature for Life/USC Young Writers Conference
Janet Fitch speaks to Literature for Life students
Joe Murray, creator of Rocko’s Modern Life, gives a multi-media presentation to our students
Joe Murray signs books for students
Award-winning editor Laurie Ochoa leads a journalism workshop
Los Angeles Times Food Critic and Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Gold speaks to students about careers in journalism
Artist/Writer J. Michael Walker discusses mixed media and storytelling
Literature for Life founder, Jervey Tervalon, and many of our amazing and generous contributing writers will be speaking at the upcoming L.A. Times Festival of Books, this April 21st and 22nd on the USC campus. Last year was a huge success and this year looks to be just as fun!
SATURDAY, APRIL 21st
12:00 Jervey Tervalon – Fiction: At Loose Ends, Annenburg Auditorium
1:30 Aimee Bender – Fairy Tales, Hoffman Hall
1:30 Janet Fitch – Fiction: Family Ties, Andrus Gerontology Center
3:30 Gary Phillips – Crime Fiction : Out of the Box, Seeley G. Mudd 124
SUNDAY, APRIL 22nd
10:30 Hector Tobar – Fiction: The Dream Deferred, Bing Theater
2:30 Susan Straight – Fiction: The Faults They Had, Seeley G. Mudd 123