Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
  **Skylight Books is back at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books! For our 2026 visit, we've booked an amazing line-up of authors, if we do say so ourselves. Here's our listings for Saturday, April 18th\--come by our tent at Booth 138 to say hi, and get your books signed at the following times:** **11:30AM - 12:00PM: Bess Kalb (_Buffalo Fluffalo)_** Bess Kalb is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer and the bestselling author of Nobody Will Tell You This but Me, a New York Times Editor’s Choice. She wrote for eight years on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and has written for the Emmy Awards, the Academy Awards, and the 2020 Democratic National Convention. She is the head writer and executive producer of the WGA Award-nominated Yearly Departed, an Amazon Comedy Special, and is currently adapting Nobody Will Tell You This but Me into a feature film. She lives with her husband and two boys in Brooklyn. This is her debut picture book. **1:00PM - 1:30PM: Stephen Graham Jones (_Buffalo Hunter Hunter)_** Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and I Was a Teenage Slasher. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and a recipient of several awards including the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. **2:00PM - 2:30PM: Luke Goebel (_Kill Dick)_** Luke Goebel is the author of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Yours. which was the recipient for the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. He also co-wrote the acclaimed screen adaptation of Eileen starring Anne Hathaway and McKenzie Thompson and Causeway starring Jennifer Lawrence. Kill Dick, his second novel, is published by Red Hen Press. He lives in Pasadena. **3:30PM - 4:00PM: Chiara Barzini (_AQUA: A Story of Water and Lost Dreams)_** CHIARA BARZINI is an Italian screen and fiction writer. She is the author of the story collection Sister Stop Breathing(Calamari Press, 2012) and has written a variety screenplays for both television and film. Her most recent film work, Arianna, the coming of age story of an intersex adolescent, won numerous awards at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for Best Screenplay at the Italian Golden Globes, 2016.