Sunday Books: coverage for May 1, 2011
- 1
A daughter’s portrait of her novelist father, William Styron, is by turns riveting and heart-rending.
- 2
The former L.A. Times reporter writes persuasively about laws curtailing American civil liberties in times of stress.
- 3
When a character who shares a name with the author discovers a previously unknown play purported to be by Shakespeare, a self-reflective journey with Shakespearean elements follows.
- 4
Two colorful siblings are on a murderous mission in the rough-and-tumble West of 1851 in this graphic and darkly humorous new novel.
- 5
In his new novel, Albert Brooks imagines a post-earthquake L.A. bailed out by the Chinese in the year 2030.
- 6
Philip Connors writes about his yearly five-month stint as a Gila National Forest fire spotter.
- 7
His works, precious in youth, seem like all talk in adulthood.
- 8
In Lauren Myracle’s latest, a teen girl tries to uncover who assaulted a gay friend in their tiny town, where meth use and hopelessness run rampant.
- 9
‘The Chicken Chronicles’ by Alice Walker, ‘You Are Free: Stories’ by Danzy Senna, and ‘an Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir’ by Robert Lipsyte.
- 10
The guide, a Depression-era reissue, examines the city’s colorful past.
