This Week in Calendar

John Balzar reviews “Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times” by Willie Brown.

Will Beall reviews “L.A. Outlaws,” a novel by T. Jefferson Parker.

Tim Rutten reviews “The Executor: A Comedy of Letters” by Michael Kruger.

The following reviews are scheduled:

Laurel Maury reviews “Y: The Last Man #60: Final Issue” by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra and Jose Marzan Jr.

David L. Ulin reviews “The Good Rat: A True Story” by Jimmy Breslin.

Kai Maristed reviews “The Devil’s Footprints,” a novel by John Burnside.

On the Web

This week at latimes.com/books:

In Paperback Writers, Richard Rayner looks back at Angela Carter, who died in 1992 at age 51. Carter’s phantasmagoric fiction was underrated during her lifetime, but Rayner suggests that she “helped crack open” the British novel, playing “fairy godmother” to Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson, David Mitchell and Zadie Smith.

Lists and blog: Look for our expanded bestseller lists, book excerpts and our guide to local literary events.

Also, please visit Jacket Copy, our book blog, at latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy.