Sheesh. I've been refreshing on the same nav item for days now and they did promise that if I checked back at the end of March (which, by golly it certainly is), they would have the schedule up. I'd just been writing a nasty gram post about the LA Times failing to keep their promise and then, lo and behold, what did one more refresh yield? The first blush panel schedule! So without further ado, here are the panels that caught my eye at a quick-glance:
Saturday
First Novels: New Visions
Moderator Ms. Susan Salter Reynolds
Ms. Alice Greenway
Ms. Marisha Pessl
Mr. Antoine Wilson
Fiction: Jumping Off the Page
Moderator Ms. Susan Salter Reynolds
Mr. Chris Bohjalian
Mr. Peter Orner
Mr. Gary Shteyngart
Fiction: Modern Myth
Moderator Mr. David L. Ulin
Ms. Aimee Bender
Mr. Ben Ehrenreich
Ms. Deborah Eisenberg
Mr. Steve Erickson
Sunday
Inland Empire Fiction: The Other California
Moderator Mr. Tod Goldberg
Ms. Gayle Brandeis
Mr. Michael Jaime-Becerra
Ms. Susan Straight
Litblogs: Words Online
Moderator Mr. Tod Goldberg
Mr. Ron Hogan
Mr. Andrew Keen
Ms. Carolyn Kellogg
Fiction: Novel Landscapes
Moderator Ms. Donna Seaman
Mr. Ron Carlson
Mr. Vikram Chandra
Ms. Gina Nahai
The complete list is up here. I must say, I don't see a lot of big guns on this list. For this reason, I'll choose to take this as a truly "first pass" panel listing...with the heavy hitters to be added later. Wishful thinking? Possibly. But where are the DFW's? The Vollmann's? Perhaps I scanned too quickly. I'll be back later once I've properly read over the schedule & mapped out my plan of attack.