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Former President Barack Obama joins us Wednesday for a very special book club event to discuss his recent memoir with filmmaker Ava DuVernay.
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Barack Obama and filmmaker Ava DuVernay will discuss the former president’s memoir “A Promised Land” April 21 in a livestreamed event for the L.A. Times Community Book Club.
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Former President Obama joins the L.A. Times Community Book Club April 21 to discuss “A Promised Land” with filmmaker Ava DuVernay.
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“Moonlight” filmmaker Barry Jenkins helms a new Amazon series based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Underground Railroad.”
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Three new books — “Dream State,” “Hollywood Eden” and “Rock Me on the Water,” examine savvy pop-culture myth-making by and about the Golden State.
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Ozick, the renowned author and critic, channels raw contemplations of old age into the fictional diary of a fading boarding-school trustee.
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April 17-23: The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Details.
March 10: Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses “The Committed"with columnist Carolina A. Miranda. Watch.
Feb. 24: Charlotte McConaghy discusses her eco-thriller “Migrations” with reporter Rosanna Xia. Watch.
Jan. 25: Lisa See shares stories behind “The Island of Sea Women.” Watch.
Dec. 15: Meet Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (“The Undocumented Americans”) and Marcelo Fernandez Castillo (“Children of the Land”). Watch.
Nov. 18: Explore The Many Worlds of Octavia E. Butler with Lynell George. Watch.
Sept. 24: Hear eight Black Poets in a Time of Unrest. Watch.
Aug. 25: Brit Bennett discusses “The Vanishing Half.” Watch.
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Patrick Radden Keefe’s much-anticipated “Empire of Pain” lays it all bare
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A year of isolation left us with a wealth of words. Hear from the poets, historians and fiction writers who gave us the most powerful books of 2020
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The former House speaker’s memoir, ‘On the House,’ brims with fury over the Trumpy takeover of his party, tales of the good old days, not much else.
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Times Book Prize finalists Rachel Howzell Hall, Ivy Pochoda, S.A. Crosby, Jennifer Hillier and Christopher Bollen talk about race, place and genre.
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Poet Amanda Gorman, who discussed her future campaign for president in a new cover story for Vogue, already has endorsements from powerful figures.
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Stephen Graham Jones on how he put together ‘The Only Good Indians,’ a Ray Bradbury Prize finalist, and why horror is the most fascinating genre.
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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, author of the story collection “Likes,” a finalist for the Times Book Prize in fiction, talks about her destabilizing work.
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The Women’s Prize Trust reaffirmed trans author Torrey Peters’ eligibility for its prize in fiction after an open letter contested her nomination.
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Former VP Mike Pence has a deal to write two books. The first, an autobiography, will detail his journey from Indiana to the Trump White House.
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A guest at this year’s virtual Times Festival of Books, the Scottish writer discusses his Booker Prize-winning novel’s difficult story — and his own.
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