Book lovers embrace the creative process -- and why failure is good -- at the L.A. Times Festival of Books

Gabrielle Zevin likes talking about failure. Her first novel for adults, released almost 20 years ago, did "really badly," by her account. "I had really never had a failure like that in my life," Zevin said. At the time, she was living in New York City, and it seemed as though the whole world was bearing witness to her defeat. "I thought I would go into a store and they would be like, 'Here is your bagel, here is your lox and sorry your novel failed so badly,'" she said.