La Quinta Book Fest
An Ode to the Desert
February 3, 2024
For our 5th annual Book Fest, we're celebrating the Coachella Valley in literature!
Please join us for a panel session with authors, a book signing, and other events.
Attendees will also have the chance to win prizes.
Registration not required.
Tod Goldberg
Tod Goldberg is the author of more than a dozen books, including Gangsterland, a finalist for the Hammett Prize; Gangster Nation; and The Low Desert: Gangster Stories, named a Southwest Book of the Year and a finalist for several literary prizes. He lives in Indio, California, where he directs the low-residency MFA in creative writing and writing for the performing arts at the University of California, Riverside.
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Steven Rowley
Steven Rowley is the New York Times bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus, a Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, The Editor, named by NPR as one of the Best Books of 2019, The Guncle, a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for 2021 Novel of the Year and winner of The 22nd Thurber Prize for American Humor, and The Celebrants, a TODAY Show Read With Jenna Book Club pick. His fiction has been published in twenty languages.
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Susan Straight
Susan Straight’s new novel, Mecca was a Finalist for the Kirkus Prize, winner of the Southwest Book Prize for Fiction, and named by The New York Times as a Top Ten California Book of the year, one of the Best Ten Books of 2022 by The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, and a best book of 2022 by NPR. Her 2019 memoir, In the Country of Women, was a national bestseller, named a best book of the year by NPR and CodeSwitch, and longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence.
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