Donna Wares returned to the Los Angeles Times in 2019 to launch the Los Angeles Times Book Club. She has previously served as an editor on the paper’s national desk, state desk and Orange County city desk. Formerly managing editor of the Orange County Register and director of the Spokesman-Review’s Northwest Passages Book Club in Washington state, Wares began her career as a reporter for the Miami Herald. She has written several books and edited “My California: Journeys by Great Writers,” a bestselling anthology that raised more than $100,000 for children’s writing programs in the state.
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‘Migrations’ author Charlotte McConaghy joins L.A. Times Book Club readers from Australia.
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The L.A. Times Book Club is reading Charlotte McConaghy’s “Migrations” in February.
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How novelist Lisa See brought Korea’s fearless women divers to life in “The Island of The Sea Women.”
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The author of ‘The Island of Sea Women’ joins Times readers on Jan. 25.
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Join us Jan. 25 with the author of this deeply researched historical novel about a community of indefatigable women divers.
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Authors Karla Cornejo Villavicencio and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo discuss the secret lives of America’s immigrants on Dec. 15.
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L.A. Times Book Club explores the many worlds of science fiction writer author Octavia E. Butler.
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Science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler’s prescient novel “Parable of the Sower” has attracted new readers during the pandemic. Her work is the subject of a new book and two TV series.
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Times arts writer Makeda Easter asked our guest poets how the collective turmoil of the past six months has affected their creativity. They responded with honest, raw commentary about their struggles to write and focus.
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National Book Award winner Robin Coste Lewis is among the poets joining L.A. Times Book Club readers on Sept. 24.