The 71st National Book Awards ceremony and its preceding events are going virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Phoebe Robinson, star of “2 Dope Queens,” has transitioned from writing to publishing to making social change.
‘Too Much and Never Enough,’ a book written about President Trump by his niece, is dark right from the get-go.
St. Paul’s boarding school covered up decades of abuse. Crawford discusses her memoir, “Notes on a Silencing,” about her on-campus rape.
In “Utopia Avenue,” the giant, brilliant multi-novel Mitchellverse alights in swinging-’60s London with a winking rock homage.
Reading in the time of coronavirus
Over the last three months, 17 writers provided diaries to the Times of their days in isolation, followed by weeks of protest. This is their story.
The literary holiday June 16 celebrates James Joyce’s great conflation of life and art “Ulysses.” This year the global revels — virtual, for the most part — will be more the latter than the former.
With curbside pickup and even some in-store visits available, there’s no reason to buy books at an online mega-store. Here’s a list of locals instead.
Like their peers across the U.S., booksellers in L.A. are adjusting to partially reopening their stores for curbside pickup amid the coronavirus.
As California bookstores gradually being to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic, here’s a closer look at the state of the industry.
We know. We know. You want to look away, but you can’t.
Emily St. John Mandel, Susan Orlean, T.C Boyle, Marlon James and others share apocalypse reading picks.
It felt like abandoning a child. But for the first time in 20 years, we can park in our garage.
A coalition of L.A.-based literary organizations and allies sent a letter to L.A. City Council Monday requesting financial aid during the pandemic.
More on Books
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The Washington Post media columnist’s ‘Ghosting the News’ diagnoses the disastrous decline in local papers.
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Andrew Martin story collection “Cool for America” features troubled strivers shuttling between the elite northeast and rough, charming Montana.
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Bestsellers List Sun., July 12, 2020
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President Trump’s attitude and policies were shaped by neglect and trauma growing up, his niece says in a new book obtained by The Times.
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Camilla Läckberg should be better celebrated in the U.S., but her gripping update of a Fay Weldon thriller isn’t updated enough.
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The film-critic narrator of his debut novel, “Antkind,” hate Charlie Kaufman, loves his mediocre successors and keeps falling into manholes.
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Festival of Books
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In light of public health concerns related to the coronavirus and out of an abundance of caution, the Los Angeles Times is postponing the Festival of Books and Food Bowl events,
The 25th annual Festival of Books will be presented in association with the University of Southern California, on the USC campus, the weekend of Oct. 3-4, 2020.
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In Leigh Stein’s new novel, “Self Care,” pioneers in “the wellness space” backstab each other, in a satire that already feels 100 years old.
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In Lynn Steger Strong’s ‘Want,’ a writer, teacher and mother faces up to her own privilege and the precariousness of her middle-class life.
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Bestsellers List Sunday, July 5, 2020
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Journalist Ben Ehrenreich lost track of time under Trump. His new ‘Road Map for the End of Time’ looks for answers in philosophies and disasters.
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Journalist Bonnie Tsui, author of “Why We Swim,” joins the L.A. Times Book Club for a July 28 virtual meetup.
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A New York state judge has temporarily blocked publication of a tell-all book by Donald Trump’s niece after the president’s brother sued to stop it.
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HBO won a reportedly intense auction among 17 bidders to turn Brit Bennett’s acclaimed second novel, “The Vanishing Half,” into a limited TV series.
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Rudolfo Anaya, the New Mexico author of the classic Chicano coming-of-age novel ‘Bless Me, Ultima,’ has died.
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Jim Carrey’s new semi-true novel, “Memoirs and Misinformation,” is unlike any show biz chronicle you’ve read.
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Kwan has two TV shows in the works, a new novel, “Sex and Vanity,” an L.A. residence and a plan to “showcase diversity in a variety of ways.”
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Sylvia Moreno-Garcia’s twist on the classic gothic horror tradition taps into elemental fears and evils that are ancient and also sadly timely.
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Walter Thompson-Hernández, author of “The Compton Cowboys,” joined Metro reporter Angel Jennings for a virtual chat about his new book.
Recent hardcover fiction and nonfiction lists.