Palm Springs Reader's Festival

The Best Bookstore in Palm Springs will host the inaugural Palm Springs Readers' Festival February 2 - 4, 2024 at Hotel Zoso.

The festival is described as "inclusive, thought-provoking and engaging," with a focus on "celebrating a wide range of literary voices and promoting lively conversations that spark intellectual curiosity and empathy," according to a news release. The festival will include in-depth author conversations and workshops.

There are a variety of ways you can attend / Purchase Passes Here

• Buy a Festival Pass / $150
• Buy a Pass for Friday / $40
• Buy a Pass for Saturday / $75
• Buy a Pass for Sunday / $75

Schedule

NOTE: Schedule and line-up is subject to change!

‍Friday, February 2nd

4:00pm Welcome from Paul & Sarah

4:15pm Byron Lane (Big Gay Wedding) and Steven Rowley (The Guncle, The Celebrants)

5:15pm Rebecca Makkai (I Have Some Questions For You)

6:15pm BOOK SIGNINGS

_{Buy a pass for Friday only here.}

Saturday, February 3rd

9am Coffee and opportunity to browse and buy books

10am Angie Kim (Happiness Falls)

11am R. Eric Thomas (Congratulations, The Best Is Over!)

12pm Nikki Erlick (The Measure)

1pm-2pm LUNCH BREAK and SIGNINGS

2pm Chris Pavone (Two Nights in Lisbon)

3pm Lara Love Hardin (The Many Lives of Mama Love)

4pm 2024 Sneak Peak featuring Christina Clancy (Shoulder Season), Sara Sligar (Take Me Apart), Rufi Thorpe (The Knockout Queen), and Sarah Tomlinson (The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers)

4:35pm BREAK AND BOOK SIGNINGS

5pm Sarah Lohman (Endangered Eating)

6pm Big Gay Author Panel feat. Jedidiah Jenkins (Mother, Nature), Byron Lane, R. Eric Thomas, Rasheed Newson (My Government Means to Kill Me), with Jason Blitman (Gays Reading)

7pm BOOK SIGNINGS

_{Buy a pass for Saturday only here.
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Sunday, February 4th

9am Coffee and opportunity to browse and buy books

10am Jasmine Guillory (Drunk on Love)

11am Jennifer Wright (Madame Restell)

12pm Food Writing with J. Ryan Stradal (Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club)

1pm Jedidiah Jenkins

2pm-3pm BREAK and BOOK SIGNINGS

3pm How to Get Published feat. Maggie Downs (Braver Than You Think), Lara Love Hardin, Chris Pavone, Marcy Posner (Folio Literary Management), with Paul Bradley Carr

4pm Justin Torres (Blackouts) in conversation with Rasheed Newson

5pm BOOK SIGNINGS

_{Buy a pass for Sunday only here.}