Los Angeles, CA | Sunday, April 23, 2017 3:00pm – 4:00pm … David Swinson and fellow authors Tim Hallinan and Joe Ide discuss “Crime Fiction: Walking the Line” at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the USC campus in April. The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. Each year, over 150,000 people go to the University of Southern California campus to experience a gathering of writers, poets, artists, filmmakers and musicians like no other. The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is the largest festival of its kind in the United States.