On Saturday and Sunday this coming weekend, April 26 and 27, 2025, the Los Angeles Times is holding its annual LA Times Festival of Books on the USC campus. Admission is free to everyone who attends this amazing line-up of events.
It also happens that I’m moderating a terrific panel of writers at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. If you have the time, I think you’ll really enjoy it, as we’ll be covering some very timely topics.
The panel is titled Undocumented: The Price of the Promised Land, and it features three remarkable non-fiction authors who have each written very timely books that also happen to be stellar pieces of reporting, research, and writing.
The writers on our panel are as follows:
Jessica Pishko, author ofThe Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy
Jesse Katz, author of The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA
and Jason De León, author of Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
So, come on down. The topics we’ll be covering are—as you can see—extremely timely.
By the way, if you do come to our panel, please don’t hesitate to say hi.
Hope to see you there.