Hydar Blog, v2.0

1. Mystery: Crime and Punishment

• Moderator: Mr. Miles Corwin
• Ms. Megan Abbott
• Ms. Attica Locke
• Mr. Stuart Neville
• Mr. Domenic Stansberry

2.  Science: The Universe Revealed

• Moderator: Mr. George Johnson
  Ms. Marcia Bartusiak
  Ms. K.C. Cole
  Ms. Jennifer Ouellette

3. Biography: Literary Masters

• Moderator: Mr. Scott Martelle
  Mr. Michael Scammell
  Ms. Carol Sklenicka
  Ms. Laura Trombley

4. Dave Eggers in Conversation with David L. Ulin

• Interviewer: Mr. David L. Ulin (“The Myth of Solid Ground “)
  Mr. Dave Eggers

5. Fiction: In Brief

• Moderator: Mr. Mark Rozzo
  Mr. Ron Carlson
  Ms. Antonya Nelson
  Ms. Marisa Silver

6. Fiction: Forging Ahead

• Moderator: Ms. Amy Wallen
  Ms. Erica Bauermeister
  Ms. Pamela Ribon
  Ms. Karen Stabiner

7. Fiction: Lives Intertwined

• Moderator: Ms. Veronique de Turenne
  Ms. Janelle Brown
  Ms. Jennifer Gilmore
  Ms. Cathleen Schine
  Ms. Kate Walbert

1. History: The Struggle for a Better Tomorrow

• Moderator: Ms. Celeste Fremon
• Ms. Miriam Pawel
• Mr. Richard Rayner
• Mr. Peter Schrag

2. Biography: 20th Century Lives

• Moderator: Mr. A. Scott Berg
• Ms. Cari Beauchamp (“Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years“)
• Ms. Kirstin Downey (“The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance“)
• Ms. Linda Gordon

3. Young Adult Fiction: ‘Tween the Lines

• Moderator: Mr. Neal Shusterman
• Mr. Pseudonymous Bosch
• Mr. Gordon Korman
• Mr. D.J. MacHale

4. America: In Hope or In Crisis?

• • Moderator: Ms. Patt Morrison
  • Mr. Mark Danner
  • Mr. John W. Dean
  • Mr. Tom Hayden

5. Kate DiCamillo in Conversation with Susan Carpenter

• Interviewer: Ms. Susan Carpenter
• Ms. Kate DiCamillo

1. Mary & Carol Higgins Clark in Conversation with Connie Martinson

• Interviewer: Ms. Connie Martinson
• Ms. Carol Higgins Clark
• Ms. Mary Higgins Clark

2. Fiction: Lives Unraveling

• Moderator: Mr. Patrick Brown
• Ms. Michelle Huneven
• Mr. Philipp Meyer
• Ms. Joanna Smith Rakoff
• Mr. Christos Tsiolkas

3. Poetic Interludes

• Moderator: Ms. Eloise Klein Healy
• Ms. Gabrielle Calvocoressi
• Mr. Mark Doty
• Ms. Amy Gerstler
• Ms. Brenda Hillman

4. Power and Politics: Washington Under Fire

• Moderator: Mr. Jim Newton
• Mr. Ronald Brownstein (“The Second Civil War“)
• Mr. Barry Glassner (“The Culture of Fear“)
• Mr. T.R. Reid
• Mr. Robert Scheer (“The Pornography of Power: Why Defense Spending Must Be Cut“)

5. Science & Humanity: From the Past to the Future

• Moderator: Ms. M.G. Lord
  Mr. Brian Fagan (“Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans“)
  Mr. Michael Shermer
  Mr. Richard Wrangham (“Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human“)

6. Current Interest: Journalists Uncover the Larger Story

• Moderator: Mr. Hector Tobar
• Mr. Dave Cullen
• Mr. Rick Wartzman
• Mr. Barry Siegel

7. Are Angels Among Us

• Moderator: Mr. Nick Owchar
• Mr. David Kessler
• Ms. Diane Hennacy Powell (“The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena“)
• Rabbi Rami Shapiro

1. History: Rising Above Oppression

• Moderator: Ms. Marla Stone (“The Patron State“)
• Mr. Philip Kearney (“Under The Blue Flag“)
• Mr. Richard Reeves (“Daring Young Men“)
• Mr. Geoffrey Robinson (““If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die”: How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor “)

2. Fiction: Life Stories

• Moderator: Mr. David Kipen
• Mr. Paul Harding
• Mr. Colson Whitehead
• Mr. Rafael Yglesias

3. Rebooting Culture: Narrative & Information in the New Age

• Moderator: Mr. David L. Ulin
• Mr. Nicholas Carr (“The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains“)
• Mr. Ander Monson
• Mr. David Shields

4. Mystery: The Kingpins

• Moderator: Ms. Paula L. Woods
• Mr. Michael Connelly
• Mr. Robert Crais
• Mr. T. Jefferson Parker

(Start of an experiment, trying to build an easy reference for the LA festival of books.  Clicking on the links below take you to info on the author or book.)

1. Mystery: The Pageturners

• Moderator -Ms. Mary McNamara (“Oscar Season“)
• Mr. David Ellis (“The Hidden Man“)
• Mr. Andrew Gross (“Reckless“)
• Mr. Gregg Hurwitz (“They’re Watching“)
• Ms. Karin Slaughter (“Broken: A Novel“)

2. Fiction: Writing the Other

• Moderator - Mr. Alex Espinoza (“Still Water Saints“)
• Mr. Leonard Chang (“Dispatches from the Cold“)
• Ms. Marilyn Chin (“Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen“)
• Ms. Chitra Divakaruni (“One Amazing Thing“)
• Ms. Petina Gappah (“An Elegy for Easterly“)

3.  Meg Cabot in Conversation with Cecil Castellucci

• Interviewer: Ms. Cecil Castellucci
• Ms. Meg Cabot

4. Children’s Books: Feeding Imaginations

• Moderator: Ms. Sonja Bolle
• Mr. Kadir Nelson
• Ms. Pam Munoz Ryan (“The Dreamer“)
• Mr. David Shannon (“Too Many Toys“)

5. Fact vs. Fiction: Storytelling in Young Adult Nonfiction

• Moderator: Mr. Jonathan Hunt
• Ms. Deborah Heiligman
• Ms. Stephanie Hemphill
• Ms. Elizabeth Partridge

6. Hollywood: Life in the Biz

• Moderator: Ms. Anne Thompson
• Mr. Alex Ben Block
• Mr. Darnell M. Hunt
• Mr. Tom Kemper

7. Poetry: Writers Without Borders

• Moderator: Ms. Carol Muske-Dukes
• Ms. Cristina Garcia
• Mr. Tom Healy
• Ms. Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon