Sunday is Day 2, the last day of the book festival on the USC campus. This year, more than 200 events featured hundreds of participants, including authors.
Poet Victoria Chang stood on a stage behind a podium, setting up a timer before reading several poems from her new book 'With My Back to the World,' which explores topics of feminism, art, depression and grief. The idea for the book, she explained to the small crowd at her poetry reading, was inspired by one of the screenprints in Agnes Martin's series, which is titled by the same name.
The Times’ book festival is the largest literary event in the United States, frequently drawing 155,000 people over two days. This year, there were more than 200 events featuring more than 550 participants, including authors, experts and more. Under a bright spring sun and reveling in temperatures in the low 70s, attendees on Sunday made their way past crowded rows of white-tented vendor booths, stopping to purchase books and artwork or speak to authors who were signing books.
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