LA Times Festival of Books

Had good day and a tight panel schedule all day. The two panels on political reporting, one with Maureen Dowd and John Dean who was still hard at booksigning late in the day as I left UCLA, that I didn't have tickets for I also couldn't get in stand-by. Tighter this year. The media panel with Ken Auletta, Ariana and moderated by David Shaw was the center piece. Hugh Hewitt was booed for some of the embellished remarks and a screed about the liberal LA Times. Classy, attack the host at their event on fallacious charges that were refuted flat-out by Auletta. Started the day with Tony Hillerman and ended with Ron Kovic All in all not a bad take. Two were filmed on C-Span.