The book festival, launched in 2011, brings Spanish-language books, authors and publishers to Los Angeles, a half-Latino city with a lack of Español booksellers.
Thousands of Angelenos descended upon the USC campus over the weekend for the 2022 L.A. Times Festival of Books. Here’s what they said about being back.Murillo gradually abandoned her own career in fashion when she began pumping out an online blog. Other emerging women writers promoted their work on social media, eliminating the need for male gatekeepers.
“Something also was happening with female readers who began to push for and consume more of the feminine narrative,” Murillo said.Last year, after much “resistance and persistence,” Murillo found a publisher for her first novel, “La cabeza de mi padre” . It centers on a woman’s mid-life road-trip reckoning with her elusive father, as well as withLuis Gustavo Padilla Montes, a University of Guadalajara professor and top administrator, said that L.A.
Among Guadalajara’s long-term ambitions is to open a satellite campus in Los Angeles, specifically to serve immigrant children whose parents can’t afford U.S. college tuition. More than 1 million Mexicans and Mexican Americans with roots in Guadalajara and the surrounding state of Jalisco inhabit Southern California.
Partly in recognition of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s overwhelmingly Latino and Latina student population, this year’s festival will focus on children’s literature and Mexican— handmade art. Children’s and young-adult authors will give readings and lead workshops. One, by writer Rodrigo Morlesin titled “Corazón rapero” , will guide four-person teams in composing freestyle hip-hop songs.
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