{"id":12575,"date":"2008-03-01T08:52:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T15:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=71"},"modified":"2008-03-01T08:52:14","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T15:52:14","slug":"28th-annual-presentation-los-angeles-times-book-prizes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/01\/28th-annual-presentation-los-angeles-times-book-prizes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"28th Annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/extras\/bookprizes\/\" title=\"click to view LA Times Book Prizes site\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/extras\/bookprizes\/images\/bookprizesLogo.gif\" alt=\"Los Angeles Times Book Prizes\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"104\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"104\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFriday, April 25, 2008<br \/>\n8 p.m. \u2022 Royce Hall, UCLA<br \/>\nThe 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes will be awarded Friday evening, April 25, 2008, at UCLA&#8217;s Royce Hall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Ceremonies<\/strong><br \/>\nGay Talese<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenters<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022Jim Newton\/Biography        \u2022Scott Simon\/Current Interest        \u2022Ngugi Wa Thiong&#8217;O\/Fiction        \u2022Susan Salter Reynolds\/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction        \u2022Douglas Brinkley\/History        \u2022Paula Woods\/Mystery-Thriller        \u2022Mark Doty\/ Poetry        \u2022Dava Sobel\/Science and Technology        \u2022Francesca Lia Block\/Young Adult Fiction        \u2022David L. Ulin\/Robert Kirsch Award.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008 Book Prizes Event Information, Friday, April 25<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Dinner with the Authors&#8221; Package &#8212; $65<br \/>\nBuffet dinner at UCLA\u2019s Faculty Center, 6\u20137:45p.m.; prime reserved seat in Royce Hall for Awards Ceremony, 8p.m.; convenient parking at Royce Hall for the entire evening.Ceremony Only &#8212; $18<br \/>\nReserved seat in Royce Hall for Awards Ceremony, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/event\/0B004054E77A740F?artistid=1106589&amp;majorcatid=10005&amp;minorcatid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to purchase tickets on line<br \/>\nor call UCLA\u2019s Central Ticket Office: 310-825-2101<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/extras\/bookprizes\/2007finalists.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> for a complete list of 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For a complete list of the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize winners and finalists, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/extras\/bookprizes\/winners2006.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, April 25, 2008 8 p.m. \u2022 Royce Hall, UCLA The 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes will be awarded Friday evening, April 25, 2008, at UCLA&#8217;s Royce Hall. Master of Ceremonies Gay Talese Presenters \u2022Jim Newton\/Biography \u2022Scott Simon\/Current Interest \u2022Ngugi Wa Thiong&#8217;O\/Fiction \u2022Susan Salter Reynolds\/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction \u2022Douglas Brinkley\/History \u2022Paula Woods\/Mystery-Thriller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}