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Former L.A. poet laureate Luis J. Rodriguez shared the stories behind “From Our Land to Our Land” with L.A. Times Book Club readers.
Myriam Gurba, who derided ‘American Dirt,’ has been placed on administrative leave and was escorted from Long Beach Polytechnic High School on Friday.
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The 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes honor crime novelist Walter Mosley for lifetime achievement.
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Little-known author of “True Grit,” Charles Portis penned inventive stories of con men, losers and seekers of truth. He died Monday at 86.
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Called “the original laconic cutup,” “True Grit” author Charles Portis was one of the country’s most revered novelists. He has died at 86.
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Libraries across Southern California are aiming to serve the immigrant readers of rapidly changing cities by purchasing books in a variety of languages.
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Luis J. Rodriguez shared his new book, ‘From Our Land to Our Land,’ with the Los Angeles Times Book Club
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Author and playwright A.E. Hotchner, known for his friendships with Ernest Hemingway and Paul Newman, died Saturday at age 102.
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A pitch-dark comedy on the wages of violence from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of “Milkman”
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Five book events in Los Angeles feature Luis J. Rodriguez, Jenny Offill, Gish Jen and more.
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“The Lucky Star” is a seedy, overlong and glorious ode to community
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Five authors of Korean thrillers you should be reading: You-Jeong Jeong, Un-Su Kim, Young-Ha Kim, J.M. Lee and Hye-Young Pyun
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Mi-Ae Seo’s chilling homage to ‘Silence of the Lambs’ joins a burgeoning genre.
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Colin Kaepernick announced Thursday he will release a memoir this year under his new imprint, Kaepernick Publishing. He also has partnered with Audible for a multi-project deal.
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Critics of “American Dirt” invited Oprah Winfrey on Wednesday to discuss "#DignidadLiteraria and other Latinx groups and the publishing industry that has systematically erased us.”
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Daniel M. Lavery documents a life in flux in his new collection, “Something That May Shock and Discredit You” (written under his old name of Daniel Mallory Ortberg).
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Christine Lennon, Su Wu and others contribute essays to a collection on the master essayist
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A journalism professor recounts the unlikely story of a newspaper published by inmates at San Quentin, California’s oldest prison.
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Excerpt: Luis J. Rodriguez revisits his two years —and nonstop gigs —as L.A. poet laureate in “From Our Land to Our Land.”
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Los Angeles Review of Books editor Tom Lutz talks about “Born Slippy,” his first novel, and why the city should have a more vibrant book publishing industry
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Hulse’s second novel imagines a family torn between love and domestic terrorism.
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A tale of survival in the Bitterroots, leavened by an eccentric cast of rescuers.
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Luiz J. Rodriguez, author of “From Our Land to Our Land,” joins the Los Angeles Times Book Club on Feb. 15.
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