The Reading Glass heads to LA festival
Indie bookseller The Reading Glass Books confirmed it will appear at the LA Times Festival of Books on April 18–19 at USC, marking its fourth year at the event and offering another local place to find curated indie titles. The press notice highlights the shop’s ongoing participation and signals the Festival as a near‑term in‑person book event worth planning around. For readers in LA, that’s a concrete chance to meet indie booksellers, pick up signed copies, and catch festival programming. (webwire.com)
A New Jersey press release turned into a very practical Los Angeles tip: The Reading Glass Books says it will be at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on April 18 and April 19, 2026, at the University of Southern California, and it says this is the shop’s fourth straight appearance there. The useful detail is the map pin. The Reading Glass Books says it will be at Booth 960 in the Black Zone, which gives festivalgoers one specific stop instead of a vague plan to “browse around” a campus-sized event. This festival is not a niche trade show hidden in a hotel ballroom. The University of Southern California calls the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books the largest literary and cultural celebration of its kind in the country, and the 2026 event runs across the University Park campus with author talks, signings, exhibitor booths, food events, and children’s programming. The basic admission price is another reason this matters for local readers. The University of Southern California event listing says admission is free, while some conversations require tickets, so a person can walk the grounds and browse booths without buying a full conference pass. The scale is bigger than a normal bookstore weekend. University of Southern California Annenberg says the 2026 festival features more than 600 authors, 7 stages, 300 exhibitors, and 14 panel discussion rooms, with attendance around 150,000 people. That makes a small exhibitor booth useful in a different way than a panel room. A booth like The Reading Glass Books’ gives readers one place to meet booksellers and authors face to face while the rest of the festival keeps moving around them. The Reading Glass Books is describing itself in this announcement as a self-publishing house from New Jersey, not a Los Angeles shop, and its recent festival notices show it is using the booth to spotlight individual authors in scheduled signing windows. One April 10 notice says Charles and Sherry Feitel will be at Booth 960 on Saturday, April 18, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. A second April 10 notice says author Bernie Schwartz will also appear at Booth 960 on Saturday, April 18, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon for his children’s book “Who Is a Veteran?” That means the booth is not just shelving books for sale; it is being used as a live signing stop inside a much larger festival. If you are planning the weekend, the festival’s own schedule already shows stage programming starting early. The University of Southern California calendar lists the kickoff with the Trojan Marching Band at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 18, on the University of Southern California Stage in Hahn Central Plaza, which gives visitors a concrete start time for building a day around booths and talks. So the immediate takeaway is simple: April 18 and April 19 are now fixed dates on the Los Angeles book calendar, the campus is the University of Southern California, general entry is free, and Booth 960 in the Black Zone is one confirmed place to find The Reading Glass Books during the weekend rush.
