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Los Angeles Times Book Club welcomes Michael Connelly, Ronan Farrow and Julie Andrews
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Tour L.A. through the eyes of novelist Michael Connelly’s relentless detective, Harry Bosch.
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“Catch and Kill,” released Tuesday, is equal parts memoir, spy story and portrait of perseverance under terrible circumstances.
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Gloria Allred defends the use of secret settlements in sexual harassment cases following an awards season screening for the upcoming film “Bombshell,” about sexual harassment at Fox News.
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From behind-the-scenes stories of “Mary Poppins” and “The Sound of Music” to the pressures of balancing career and family, Julie Andrews talks candidly about the work involved in her amazing life and career.
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Kate Braverman, whose poetry and prose captured a dark Los Angeles, dies in Santa Fe
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Ted Gioia’s “Music: A Subversive History” is daringly ambitious but, laments critic Robert Christgau, disdains the pleasure of “mere entertainment.”
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Author Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor who was a standard-bearer of Western civilization amid modern trends, has died at age 89.
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Everyone wondered how Harvey Weinstein allegedly got away with it for so long; Ronan Farrow has some of the answers in “Catch and Kill,” and they are not pretty.More Coverage
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Elton John’s autobiography “Me” arrives on the heels of his smash farewell tour, “Rocketman” biopic and what can only be described as personal contentment.
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Julie Andrews reflects on ‘Mary Poppins’ and other Hollywood adventures in ‘Home Work.’
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Indie rocker Liz Phair’s “Horror Stories” is an explosive, unconventional memoir with a jumble of memories that play out like life.
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Tickets for Oct. 21 event with bestselling novelist Michael Connelly.
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What to do in L.A.: Samin Nosrat, Lindy West and Deepak Chopra headline book events
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Steph Cha’s ‘Your House Will Pay’ confronts the legacies of the 1992 L.A. riots
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Attica Locke’s ‘Heaven, My Home’ follows a conflicted Texas ranger from ‘Bluebird, Bluebird.’
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In ‘Frankissstein,’ Jeanette Winterson revives the Frankenstein story with a high-tech twist.
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“The Grammarians” novelist Cathleen Schine says she was aiming for “something funny and kind of separate from the real world.”
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A year after scandal canceled the award, Olga Tokarczuk, a Polish author, and Austrian writer Peter Handke are given the Nobel Prize for literature.
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Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke are named recipients for 2018 and 2019, respectively.
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Throw out those longlists, because this year’s National Book Awards finalists have been announced.
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Toni Morrison’s publisher is preparing to release “The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom,” a compilation of the late author’s notable quotes.
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Excerpt: ‘The Liturgy of Home’ from ‘Erosion’ by Terry Tempest Williams
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In ‘Stealing Green Mangoes,’ Sumil Dutta reckons with a brother’s divergent path.
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A section of the Well of the Scribes sculpture returns to the L.A. Central Library, 50 years after it vanished. The other two pieces are still missing.
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