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In ‘The Critic’s Daughter,’ Priscilla Gilman writes about her complex relationship with her father, theater critic and Yale professor Richard Gilman.
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In “Leon Russell,” Bill Janovitz tracks a rocker who played with Jagger and Dylan, turned Willie Nelson into a hippie, made six gold records and faded away.
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Novelist and science journalist Annalee Newitz brings ‘The Terraformers’ to the L.A. Times Book Club March 28.
‘Letters to Trump’ is the former president’s latest branded offering. Out April 25, it promises 150 letters from Kim Jong Un, Oprah Winfrey and more.
Shane Salerno helped write the new “Avatar” sequels, but “The Way of Water’s” Oscar best picture nod is not the biggest thing that’s happened to him this year.
‘Monstrilio,’ by Gerardo Sámano Córdova, is a hybrid of horror, literary meditation and cross-cultural exploration — and a unique marvel of its own.
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