Sunday, April 19, 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 Sunday, April 19th\--come by our tent at Booth 138 to say hi, and get your books signed at the following times:** **11:30AM - 12:00PM: Jose Pimienta (_Halfway to Somewhere_)** Jose Pimienta was raised in Mexicali, Baja California and now resides in Los Angeles, CA where they work on comics and storyboards for animation and film. Suncatcher was their debut YA graphic novel and ended on many 'Best of' lists. Their second graphic novel, Twin Cities received four starred reviews and Jose's work with students, in both English and Spanish, has made they a great guest at many school across the US. In their stories, they focus on the importance of Latinx culture and the experience of growing up on the border. **1:00PM - 1:30PM: Justin Torres (_Blackouts)_** Rachel Khong is the author of Goodbye, Vitamin, winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction. Real Americans, her second novel, was a New York Times bestseller. In 2018, Khong founded The Ruby, a work and event space for women and nonbinary writers and artists in San Francisco’s Mission District. With friends, she teaches creative writing as The Dream Side. She lives in Los Angeles. **2:00PM - 2:30PM: Rachel Khong (_My Dear You)_** 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: Nate DiMeo (_The Memory Palace)_** Nate DiMeo’s pioneering podcast, The Memory Palace, has turned to the past to make sense of the way we live today, finding beauty and meaning in history’s dustier corners, holding things up to the light and weaving facts, keen insight, wit, and poignant observation into unforgettable tales. The show has made its way into The Library of Congress, as a member of its first class of podcasts tapped for preservation, and the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where Nate was the museum’s artist in residence. He has performed stories from the podcast in cities all over the United States as well as Canada, England, Ireland, and at a rock festival in Tasmania. His book from Random House, The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past, collects beloved stories from the show, new stories, memoir, found photographs and illustrations. For its audiobook, he is joined by beloved voices from the worlds of movies and television, including Carrie Coon, Lili Taylor, and Ryan Reynolds, and audio, including Radiolab’s Jad Abrumrad and Latif Nasser, Song Exploder’s Hrishikesh Hirway, and Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal. He has reported stories for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered and American Public Media’s Marketplace, as well as numerous other public radio programs. He is the co-author of Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America, for which he was a finalist for the Thurber Prize in American Humor. He has written for NBC’s Parks and Recreation and the ABC miniseries, The Astronaut Wives’ Club. He lives in Los Feliz, by way of Providence, Rhode Island.