Festival Mascot, Madeline
Yesterday, I had the good fortune to volunteer with twenty-five students and a colleague from Marymount College at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books hosted by the Los Angeles Times at USC . It was an interesting adventure on so many levels:
- Attendees cared enough about getting author signatures to wait in line for a LONG time
- Authors come in many different sizes, shapes, and temperaments as do illustrators
- Los Angeles is richly diverse in many beautiful ways
- This was an organizational feat of significant proportions
- Books created a vast community, even if it shifted rapidly
- Commercial interests are alive and well, including those of sponsors
- Technology, of course, was present
- Paperbacks are winning the race
- Subjects and themes were vast
- People behaved very politely
- Books are still magic
All in all, a very satisfying day.