The book is part whodunnit true crime, trying to piece together the alleged arson, part profile of the library as an institution and part feminist history. “At that point it was an escapable.This is just a book I have to do.” “It was then, as we were walking the library, when he pulled a book off the shelf and sniffed it and said, ‘You can still smell the smoke in some of them,’ ” she said. She told the crowd of over 300 that she never intended to write another book after writing Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend until a tour of the central branch. Hundreds filled USC’s Town and Gown ballroom to hear New Yorker writer and author Susan Orlean talk about her latest book The Library Book it tells the story of the devastating 1986 fire within the downtown Los Angeles Central Library, which burned roughly 400,000 books and shut down the facility for seven years. Roxane Gay, center, speaks at the festival. There are also performances, circus troupe Le Petit Cirque doing acrobatics and baker Margarita Manzke showing some recipes from her L.A. This year’s festival, which runs through Sunday, April 14, includes authors, media personalities and celebrities such as Bad Feminist author Roxane Gay, crime writer Walter Mosley and Queer Eye star Karamo Brown. In its ninth year at USC’s University Park Campus, the festival attracts more than 150,000 people from all over the country, making it the largest literary event of its kind in the U.S. It was Renfrow’s first time at the festival, now in its 24th year. Times Festival of Books: Largest in the country Renfrow, 20, of Redlands, added: “I wish I had a book tell me that when I was a kid.” 2019 L.A. “It’s really nice he’s trying to teach children who read the book that it’s OK to be weird and different,” said Ellis, 21, of Fontana. Tiffany Renfrow, left, and Emily Ellis wait in line to get their books signed by Matthew Gray Gubler.
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