Heyday at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Featuring Heyday Authors:
Greg Sarris
Obi Kaufmann
Charles Hood
April 23, 2022 – April 24, 2022
Join Heyday at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California, April 23 – 24.
Find us at the festival to browse all our latest and greatest books at booth 113, including fresh off the press new releases like Becoming Story by celebrated storyteller and tribal leader Greg Sarris; the latest opus from Obi Kaufmann, The Coasts of California; and A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat, the delightful literary romp through nature’s underbelly by Jonathan Franzen’s favorite nature writer Charles Hood.
You can catch these Heyday authors at their featured panel events on the first day of the festival, Saturday, April 23rd—explore the full program lineup at latimes.com/fob.
California: You’re Beautiful No Matter What They Say
Saturday, April 23 at 2 PM at the Ray Stark Family Theatre, SA 5
Moderator: Steve Padilla
Panelists: Obi Kaufmann, Charles Hood, David Kipen, and Victoria Kastner
History: Writing California
Saturday, April 23 at 4:30 PM at the Salvatori Computer Science Center 102 SA 4
Moderator: William Deverell
Panelists: Greg Sarris and Matthew David Specktor
Purchase tickets to attend these author events at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books website.
Get TicketsAbout the Speakers
Greg Sarris
Greg Sarris is an enrolled member of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and is currently serving his seventeenth consecutive elected term as chairman of the tribe. He is the author of several books, including the novel Grand Avenue, which he adapted for an HBO miniseries and co-executive produced with Robert Redford; the novel Watermelon Nights; Weaving the Dream, a biography of Mabel McKay; Becoming Story, a memoir; and the story collections How a Mountain Was Made and The Forgetters. Formerly a full professor of English at UCLA, Sarris serves on the University of California Board of Regents and the Sundance Institute Board, and he holds the Distinguished Emeritus Graton Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at Sonoma State University. He lives in Sonoma County, California. (Photo by Beowulf Sheehan)
Obi Kaufmann
Obi Kaufmann is the author of The California Field Atlas (2017, #1 San Francisco Chronicle Best Seller), The State of Water (2019), The Forests of California (2020), The Coasts of California (2022), The Deserts of California (2023), and The State of Fire (2024) all published by Heyday. When he is not backpacking, you can find the painter-poet at home in the East Bay, posting trail paintings at his handle @coyotethunder on Instagram. His speaking tour dates are available at californiafieldatlas.com, and his essays are posted at coyoteandthunder.com.
Charles Hood
Poet and essayist Charles Hood has been a factory worker, a ski instructor, and a birding guide in Africa. His recent books published by Heyday include Nocturnalia, an appreciation of nature after dark, and the essay collection A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature. His wildlife studies have taken him around the world, from the high Arctic to the South Pole, and from Tibet to West Africa to the Amazon. Mammal no. 1,000 seen and recorded on his world animal list was a Crossley's dwarf lemur in Madagascar. (Mammal no. 999 was a Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat.) Recently retired and now professor emeritus, Hood lives in the Mojave Desert with two kayaks, two mountain bikes, two dogs, and five thousand books.
