What’s the difference between human smuggling and trafficking?
Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter.Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. This week we speak with lifelong Angeleno…
Marcus J. Moore, De La Soul and unauthorized biographies
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Youngmi Mayer wants you to laugh while crying over her memoir
Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter.Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. This week we speak with comedian and…
How Taylor Swift reinvented pop music
Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter.Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. This week we speak with Rolling Stone…
Hanif Abdurraqib’s new book shows basketball can be poetry
Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter.Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic, fervent bookworm and hoops head Chris Vognar.This week we speak with poet…
How a new book honors Emmett Till
Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter.Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar.This week I spoke with Wright Thompson, a…
How L.A. drives Rachel Kushner, author of ‘Creation Lake’
Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter.Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar.This week we speak with novelist and Los…
Why Comic-Con hasn’t outgrown its comic book origins
Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter!I’m novelist and punk historian Jim Ruland, and some of my earliest obsessions with…
‘Longlegs’ review: Serial-killer thrills with a wintry mood
Filmmaker Osgood Perkins’ eerie, occultist serial-killer horror thriller “Longlegs” opens with a psyche-rattling sequence, barely a minute or two long, in which he crafts a…
A Clayton Kershaw biography and more baseball book recommendations
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Meet the writer translating Alejandro Zambra, José Donoso and more
Good morning and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a novelist and punk historian, and although I’m currently on vacation…
Tananarive Due talks ‘The Reformatory’ and Gracetown’s importance
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StokerCon guest of honor Paul Tremblay discusses the appeal of horror
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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…
Netflix's violent British revenge thriller charges onto must-watch list – as mind-blowing ending thrills fans
A crime drama originally released in 2021 is attracting a whole new army of fans since being picked up by Netflix - and with a…
Naoya Inoue vs Luis Nery: Japanese boxing star thrills Tokyo fans
Inoue has become such a star in his home country that he was able to headline the first boxing event at the Tokyo Dome since…
The best panels at the L.A. Times Festival of Books
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Read ‘The Cactus League’ if Ohtani’s scandal is on your mind
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Female authors address climate change and an unlivable world
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2024 Festival of Books lineup includes Viet Thanh Nguyen
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