LATFOB - THE SHORT VERSION

We hope to share more detailed impressions of the weekend's Los Angeles Times Festival of Books presently, but some highlights:

* Listening to Michael Silverblatt, Pico Iyer, Katherine Dunn, Bernard Cooper and Geoff Dyer talk about ... well, nearly everything, in one of the most capacious and thoughtful panels of its kind we've ever seen. We suspect this one will enter the pantheon of greats, a panel that those who were there will always look back on reverently.  (The nominal topic was intersecti