Synchronized swimming is even more impressive when you learn its history
Book Review Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water By Vicki ValosikLiveright: 432 pages, $28.99If you buy books linked on our site, The…
Tananarive Due talks ‘The Reformatory’ and Gracetown’s importance
Welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a novelist and punk historian, and in today’s newsletter I’m going to take…
StokerCon guest of honor Paul Tremblay discusses the appeal of horror
Good morning and thanks for reading the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a novelist and punk historian, and today we’re going to…
Why do books have chapters? How writing changed from antiquity to children’s books and streaming
Nicholas Dames remembers the first time he really got thinking about a very obvious but largely invisible writing device.It was around two decades ago, when…
German author wins International Booker Prize for ‘Kairos’
LONDON — German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Kairos,” the story of a tangled love…
This local bookseller is publishing L.A’s untold stories
Donato Martinez reads his poetry at the Libros Lincoln Heights bookshop. On a Saturday evening in late April, the door of the Libros Lincoln Heights…
6 essential collections to celebrate short story month
Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a fiction writer, punk historian and a longtime contributor to…
Granderson: A football player said something stupid about women. Let it go
Between 1800 and 1900, women made up only around 10% of the world’s authors. Evelyn Beatrice Hall, who was born in 1868, adopted the pseudonym…
Canadian Nobel-winning author Alice Munro dies aged 92 | Obituaries News
Munro was renowned for her short stories, which focussed on the frailties of the human condition. Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author known for…
Young Clippers radio voice Carlo Jiménez honors his grandfather
Carlo Jiménez, a young broadcaster inspired by his family, completed his first season as the Clippers’ new voice on KLAC-AM (570) radio. Jiménez, 23, is…
Indigenous author Alexis Wright wins 2024 Stella Prize for her novel Praiseworthy
Waanyi writer Alexis Wright has won the 2024 Stella Prize, worth $60,000, for her novel Praiseworthy, a 700-page odyssey set in a fictional town in northern Australia.Wright…
Author CJ Sansom dies days before his show airs on Disney+ and he will never get to see success
CJ Sansom, well-known for creating the character of Matthew Shardlake, has died at the age of 71, with his literary agent Antony Topping sharing an…
Celebrity book imprints from SJP, Lena Waithe thrive at Zando
In recent decades, corporate consolidation of the book industry has shrunk the number of and the visions of publishing houses, concentrating power at the top…
The best panels at the L.A. Times Festival of Books
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Sophie Kinsella, bestselling British author of Shopaholic series, reveals ‘aggressive’ brain cancer diagnosis
In short: Sophie Kinsella has revealed she has "glioblastoma, a form of aggressive brain cancer".Kinsella posted on social media that the cancer was diagnosed at the…
What a trans author found on a tour of red-state libraries
The small brick plaza in front of the Pella, Iowa, public library was teeming with people. A gray-haired woman in a T-shirt stood stoically beside…
Salman Rushdie recalls stabbing amid launch of memoir ‘Knife’
Salman Rushdie isn’t limiting himself to just his new memoir to recount the 2022 stabbing attack that nearly killed him. Ahead of the release of…
Student Melissa Witt’s ‘killer’ showed off her watch in home years after he ‘abducted her from parking lot,’ author says
A STUDENT'S chilling murder which has gone unsolved for almost 30 years may finally see her killer unmasked, an amateur sleuth has claimed. Melissa Witt,…
L.A. Times Festival of Books Latinidad Stage: Valentina, Justin Torres
For the first time, De Los and L.A. Times en Español are bringing the Latinidad Stage to life at this year’s L.A. Times Festival of…
Read ‘The Cactus League’ if Ohtani’s scandal is on your mind
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