By Michael Schaub
FROM: L.A. Times

The Los Angeles Review of Books and Hauser & Wirth Publishers announced the panelists who will discuss literature, art and activism at LitLit, the Little Literary Fair, which will debut this weekend in L.A.’s Downtown Arts District. The city’s newest book festival, to be held at the Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles arts complex, will host four panels on July 20 and 21 as part of its programming, which will also include more than 20 exhibitors from L.A. and other cities on the West Coast.

On July 20 at 11 a.m., publishers and artists will discuss “what makes an art book,” festival organizers said in a news release. Panelists will include Dagny Corcoran, the founding proprietor of Art Catalogues; X Artists’ Books co-founder Alexandra Grant; L.A. artist Paul McCarthy; and Michaela Unterdörfer, the director of publications of Hauser & Wirth Publishers. L.A.-based X Artists’ Books was founded in 2017 by Grant, herself an artist, along with graphic designer Jessica Fleischmann and actor Keanu Reeves. Grant discussed the publishing project with The Times shortly after its establishment, saying, “In a way you’re making a proposition with an artists’ book, which is: I might surprise you, I might delight you, I might confuse you.”

Writers and publishers will discuss activism and publishing in a panel at 1 p.m. July 20. Participants will include Tsehai Publishers founder Elias Wondimu; Tobias Tubbs and Bidhan Chandra Roy of Words Uncaged; and Jessica M. Wilson Cárdenas, the coordinator of Tia Chucha Press. Tia Chucha Press is the publishing wing of Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural, the cultural center, performance space and bookstore in Sylmar. The center has hosted authors such as Sandra Cisneros, and its customers have included musician Bruce Springsteen and actor Cheech Marin. In 2011, Tia Chucha’s co-founder Luis J. Rodriguez told the Times that the cultural center is meant to serve all Southern Californians, regardless of their background or ethnicity. “People think this is just a Chicano/Latino center, but we embrace everybody,” he said. Read Rest of Article Here