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By Noelle Carter, Los Angeles Times
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.
By Richard Rayner
Terry McDermott and Josh Meyer retrace the hunt, capture and interrogation of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
By Susan Carpenter
'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.
By Susan Carpenter
By Mike Downey
In 'My Life as a Sportswriter,' the Sports Illustrated writer reminisces on his time chronicling the offbeat and the mainstream in sports.
By Scott Martelle
In Charlotte Rogan's first novel, people escape a sinking ship. The setting allows the author to explore morality and human nature.
By Julia M. Klein
In 'Detroit: A Biography,' Scott Martelle details Detroit's troubled history, profiles some Detroiters and offers suggestions for recovery.
By Evelyn McDonnell
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.
By Robert Crais, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Novelist Robert Crais draws from perspectives both near and far to uncover a city rich in mystery and opportunities.
By Leo Braudy, Special to the Los Angeles Times
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.
By Janet Fitch, Special to the Los Angeles Times
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.
By Irene Lacher, For the Los Angeles Times
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.
By Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times
Jesmyn Ward's Mississippi-set 'Salvage the Bones' won the National Book Award for fiction. She has more stories to tell from the South.
By Tod Goldberg, Special to the Los Angeles Times
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.
By Lynell George, Special to the Los Angeles Times
By Nick Owchar, Los Angeles Times
More than 400 authors are scheduled over the two days at USC. Writers as varied as Anne Rice and Jeff Kinney will hold court.
By Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times
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.
By Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times
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.
By Jon Thurber, Los Angeles Times
The author of 'Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash' discusses how he became fascinated with garbage.
Schedule for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC.
By Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times
The university is also home to material from Norman Mailer, Don DeLillo and more.
By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic
The son of an Ojibwe mother and a Jewish father writes about Native American reservation life in this nonfiction work.
By Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Art Critic
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.
By Michael Ryan
By Carol Muske-Dukes, Special to the Los Angeles Times
The poet ('A Change of World,' 'Diving Into the Wreck') and feminist ('Of Woman Born') was a standard-bearer, Carol Muske-Dukes writes.
By Neal Gabler, Special to the Los Angeles Times
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.