DiBarone’s “Botheration: Part Three: Epiphany” Enters the Spotlight at LA Times Festival of Books

Vito DiBarone’s “Botheration: Part Three: Epiphany” will be featured at The Reading Glass Books Booth #960 in the Black Zone at the University of Southern California during the LA Times Festival of Books in Los Angeles, April 18-19, 2026.

With this third installment, DiBarone expands the “Botheration” series into a broader and more unpredictable landscape, where scientific curiosity and personal uncertainty begin to overlap. Known for blending technical imagination with emotional depth, DiBarone pushes Matty Weber’s story into new territory shaped by questions that refuse simple answers.

What begins as an ordinary night of sky-watching turns unsettling when Matty witnesses a lunar explosion and a strange message written across the sky. Soon after, his small town of Scotsbourgh begins to feel unfamiliar, as people behave in ways that do not make sense and reality itself seems slightly off balance. Searching for clarity, Matty forms an unexpected alliance with his parents, stepfather, and close friends Gabriel and Samantha as they try to make sense of the growing chaos.

One reviewer noted that what makes Epiphany stand out is its fusion of speculative science and psychological tension. They added, “The appearance of SIASE, the novel’s unsettling teaching intelligence, pushes the story beyond a simple school mystery into larger questions about consciousness, perception, survival, and whether knowledge itself can be trusted. DiBarone uses advanced scientific ideas not as decoration, but as part of Matty’s identity and the novel’s central unease, especially as the story widens into warnings of pandemic catastrophe and apocalyptic global collapse.”

At the LA Times Festival of Books, visitors to The Reading Glass Books exhibit can discover “Botheration: Part Three: Epiphany” among a curated selection of featured titles. Readers drawn to layered mysteries and character-driven adventure will find a story built on curiosity, discovery, and transformation.

“Botheration Part Three: Epiphany” is available now on Amazon and other major online book retailers.

For more information about the author and his works, visit https://www.mattyweberadventures.com/.

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