Book review: 'At Home on the Range' by Margaret Yardley Potter

The cookbook has been republished after an initial run in 1947, and her great-granddaughter Elizabeth Gilbert ('Eat Pray Love') reintroduces Potter in the forward. The cookbook is insightful and funny, weaving together practical advice and recipes.

Book review: 'The Hunt for KSM' is a true thriller

Terry McDermott and Josh Meyer retrace the hunt, capture and interrogation of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

Not Just for Kids: 'Insurgent' by Veronica Roth

'Insurgent,' the second installment of Veronica Roth's 'Divergent' trilogy, follows lead characters Tris and Tobias as their bond is battle-tested when they rise up against their dystopian society's constrictive boundaries.

Interview: Veronica Roth on her book 'Insurgent' and feminism

Book review: Frank Deford goes deep, as usual

In 'My Life as a Sportswriter,' the Sports Illustrated writer reminisces on his time chronicling the offbeat and the mainstream in sports.

Book review: 'The Lifeboat' isn't just a tale of survival

In Charlotte Rogan's first novel, people escape a sinking ship. The setting allows the author to explore morality and human nature.

Review: 'Detroit: A Biography' by Scott Martelle sees ruin, hope

In 'Detroit: A Biography,' Scott Martelle details Detroit's troubled history, profiles some Detroiters and offers suggestions for recovery.

Review: Carole King reveals the story behind 'A Natural Woman'

In the distinctly unglamorous memoir 'A Natural Woman,' singer-songwriter Carole King details how she juggled early fame and family and a search for normality.

Los Angeles, a writer's challenge and glory

Novelist Robert Crais draws from perspectives both near and far to uncover a city rich in mystery and opportunities.

Los Angeles has plenty of history, if you look for it

History in L.A. doesn't hit you in the face like it does elsewhere. Often you have to go exploring to find it, but sometimes it's as obvious as the Hollywood sign.

Introducing Los Angeles to itself

An L.A. novelist says the city's writers need to create a more complex and accurate picture of it — for itself and for the way it resides in the world's imagination.

The Sunday Conversation: Robert Weil

W.W. Norton's former executive editor says the publishing company's revived Liveright imprint shows Norton's belief in great writing, and sees e-books as a complement to the printed word.

Jesmyn Ward ('Salvage the Bones') writes of Mississippi

Jesmyn Ward's Mississippi-set 'Salvage the Bones' won the National Book Award for fiction. She has more stories to tell from the South.

To live and write in L.A.

Writer Tod Goldberg couldn't quite grasp the essence of Los Angeles as a young first-time visitor, but that had as much to do with the city as with him.

'Waiting for the Rainbow Sign' by Lynell George

Getting a read on the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

More than 400 authors are scheduled over the two days at USC. Writers as varied as Anne Rice and Jeff Kinney will hold court.

Are you there, readers? It's Judy Blume

The author first hit it big in the 1970s with a string of go-to books for kids. She recently helped turn 'Tiger Eyes' into a film and is busy on a 1950s-set novel.

To Gustavo Arellano, Mexican food is a big melting pot

The author of 'Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America' explores the history and types of cuisine, and weaves in a larger picture of assimilation.

Edward Humes' work is rubbish

The author of 'Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash' discusses how he became fascinated with garbage.

T.C. Boyle archives go to Ransom Center at UT Austin

The university is also home to material from Norman Mailer, Don DeLillo and more.

The Writing Life: David Treuer mines his family's 'Rez Life'

The son of an Ojibwe mother and a Jewish father writes about Native American reservation life in this nonfiction work.

Book review: 'A Rake's Progress,' a biography of David Hockney

Volume 1 of a planned two-parter by Christopher Simon Sykes chronicles the British painter's life and art from 1937 to 1975, including his move to L.A.

'Girls Middle School Orchestra'

An Appreciation: Adrienne Rich

The poet ('A Change of World,' 'Diving Into the Wreck') and feminist ('Of Woman Born') was a standard-bearer, Carol Muske-Dukes writes.

Daniel Boorstin got it right in 'The Image'

The historian wrote 50 years ago that U.S. culture was moving away from substance toward sensationalism in an era of mass media. And so postmodernism was born.