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2020 decimated our cultural and entertainment institutions. Artists have readjusted their ways of working. Many wonder if they can continue their craft even after the pandemic. Yet we’ve also seen resilience and creativity.
Across the city on Thanksgiving weekend, indie bookstores greeted lines of customers, kicking off a holiday season of high promise and existential concern.
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At a panel on Sunday for the Times Festival of Books, Meena Harris, author of ‘Ambitious Girl,’ talked about the power of representation in children’s books.
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At a Festival of Books panel Saturday, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Anthony Cody, Adam Goodman and Jia Lynn Yang talked hard truths about U.S. policy.
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At an L.A. Times Book Festival panel on Black YA fiction, Dean Atta, Morgan Parker, Yusef Salaam and Ibi Zoboi discuss stories of teens making it through.
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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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Deesha Philyaw, Victoria Chang and Isabel Wilkerson are among the winners of the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prizes, announced Friday.
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April 21: Former President Barack Obama in conversation with filmmaker Ava DuVernay about “A Promised Land.” 7 p.m. Info. Book excerpt.
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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.
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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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The Louisville police officer who fired at Breonna Taylor after being shot is writing a book, but a publishing giant is declining to distribute it.
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Face masks and social distancing will be enforced. Signs will direct foot traffic, and furniture and bookshelves have been reorganized.
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The 26th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is going virtual again this year. The event kicks off April 17 at 10 a.m. Here’s how to watch.
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41st annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony
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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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Bestsellers List Sunday, April 18
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Patrick Radden Keefe’s much-anticipated “Empire of Pain” lays it all bare
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Panelists will include Zooey Deschanel, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Don Lemon, Lulu Miller, Walter Mosley, Deesha Philyaw and Meena Harris.
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