From Kinokuniya Bookstore Los Angeles English Books
2014 LA Times Festival of Books at USC
Meet the Authors Event Schedule
Kinokuniya Bookstore Booth #84
Saturday, April 12
10:30 am – 12:00 pm, Sunny Seki: Tale of the Lucky Cat; Last Kappa of Old Japan; Yuko Chan & the Daruma Doll
10:30 am – 11:30 am, Salina Yoon: Found; Penguin in Love; Penguin on Vacation and more
11:30 am – 12:30 pm, Sandra Tsing Loh, NPR Commentator: The Madwoman in the Volvo – My Year of Raging Hormones
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Lora Nakamura: Bonsai Babes – A Love Story
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm, Ruth Ozeki, 2013 LA Times Book Prize, Finalist for Fiction: A Tale for the Time Being; My Year of Meats; All Over Creation
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm, Cynthia Kadohata, 2013 National Book Award Winner – Young People’s Literature: The Thing About Luck; Kira Kira; Cracker; A Million Shades of Gray; In the Heart of the Valley of Love
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm, Jennifer Wood: Year of the Horse; Year of the Dragon; Year of the Snake
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm, Romulus Hillsborough: Samurai Revolution – The Dawn of Modern Japan; Ryoma – Life of a Renaissance Samurai; Shinsengumi – The Shogun’s Last Samurai Corps
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm, Manami Okazaki: Kokeshi – From Tohoku with Love; Wabori – Traditional Japanese Tattoo; Kawaii – Japan’s Culture of Cute
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Fumiko Kometani: Wasabi For Breakfast
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Wendy Watson: Personality & Blood Type
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Mark Edward Harris: Way of the Japanese Bath; South Korea; Inside North Korea
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Paul Okimoto: Oh Poston Why Don’t You Cry for Me
Sunday, April 13
10:00 am – 11:00 am, Julliena Okah: One Life, Many Worlds; God’s Majesty in Color & Words
11:00 am – 12:30 pm, Seo Kim, Cat Person
11:00 am – 12:30 pm, Michael Chwe: Jane Austen – Game Theorist
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm, Naomi Hirahara, Edger Award Winning Author: Murder on Bamboo Lane “Ellie Rush Mystery”; The Mas Arai Mystery Series; 1001 Cranes
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm, Kendall Brown: Traditions Transfigured – The Noh Masks of Bidou Yamaguchi; Quiet Beauty – The Japanese Gardens of North America; Deco Japan – Shaping Art and Culture, 1920 – 1945
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm, Lane Hirabayashi and Marilyn Alquizola: America is in the Heart; A Personal History (with Carlos Bulosan)
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm, Manami Okazaki: Kokeshi – From Tohoku with Love; Wabori – Traditional Japanese Tattoo; Kawaii – Japan’s Culture of Cute
