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2023 L.A. Times book festival: Meghan Trainor, Laura Dern, more

March 15, 2023

Singer Meghan Trainor, Oscar-winning actor Laura Dern, California representative Katie Porter and former Georgia lawmaker Stacey Abrams are among the authors set to appear at this year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. On Wednesday, The Times unveiled its lineup for the annual literary celebration, scheduled for April 22 and 23, which will feature more […]

Boris Dralyuk and Jenny Croft, married translators up for same prize

March 15, 2023

In January, Jennifer Croft and Boris Dralyuk were nominated, separately, for the National Book Critics Circle’s Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize. This is noteworthy because Croft and Dralyuk are translators of uncommon felicity, Croft of 2018 Nobel Prize recipient Olga Tokarczuk (she is a finalist for Tokarczuk’s “The Books of Jacob”) and Dralyuk of […]

Commentary: A memoir about critic Richard Gilman falls short

March 14, 2023

Whether it’s possible to separate the artist from the art is a question that has grown more heated in recent years, as the atrocious behavior of men — powerful white men, in particular — is no longer being condoned as readily as it had been for millennia. In her new book “The Critic’s Daughter,” a […]

Review: Idra Novey's new novel 'Take What You Need'

March 14, 2023

Review Take What You Need By Idra NoveyViking: 256 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. It was Pliny the Elder who told us, “Home is where the heart is.” Perhaps he never had to know what it feels […]

The first biography of influential, shadowy rocker Leon Russell

March 13, 2023

Review Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History By Bill JanovitzHachette, 592 pages, $31 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. A selective list of Leon Russell’s collaborators reads like a roll call of […]

Cathleen Schine's historical L.A. novel 'Kunstlers in Paradise'

March 10, 2023

On the Shelf Künstlers in Paradise By Cathleen SchineHolt: 272 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The novelist Cathleen Schine feels comfortably ensconced in Venice, nestled in a Craftsman bungalow on a pedestrian-only street with her wife, Janet […]

'The Terraformers' author Annalee Newitz discusses science-fiction genre storytelling

March 9, 2023

Annalee Newitz’s newest science-fiction novel, “The Terraformers,” is a sprawling saga set 60,000 years in the future. But what’s most compelling is how Newitz redefines what it means to be a person. The novel’s characters include a flying moose named Whistle, a sentient passenger train and an alternative human subspecies that’s built a secret city […]

'Letters to Trump': 150 pieces of rich-and-famous writing

March 9, 2023

President Donald Trump, formerly of the White House and now of Florida, is getting ready to release a new book of letters he has received from “some of the biggest names in history throughout the past 40 years,” his publisher said Thursday. “From President Richard Nixon, to Princess Diana, and from Hillary Clinton, to Chairman […]

Meet Shane Salerno, power writer-agent credited in Oscar nominee 'Avatar'

March 9, 2023

When the film series you worked on for years has broken all manner of box office records with its first installment, which is nominated for the best picture Oscar, you would be forgiven for wanting to talk about nothing else. Especially in the weeks running up to the Oscars. Shane Salerno, who has story credit […]

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