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Free from the traditional New York publishing bubble, Transit Books and Unnamed Press are building creative, distinct — and flourishing — literary houses on the West Coast.
Claire Vaye Watkins, a UC Irvine writing professor, opens up about the inspiration behind her sharp and funny new novel “Yellow Pine.”
With his new novel ‘Cool Machine’ out now, revisit how Colson Whitehead evolved from an avant-garde stylist into a bestselling, genre-defying novelist. Here is your essential reading cheat sheet.
Author S.A. Cosby talks rural noir and Southern storytelling before his highly anticipated appearance at the L.A. Times Festival of Books on April 18 and 19.
From romance and memoirs to mystery and fantasy, here are the 101 best book club picks, according to a survey of more than 200 authors, publishers, journalists and book club fans.
In ‘Superhero,’ veteran character actor Tim Blake Nelson invents a comics-based studio to prod the global dominance of American blockbusters.
Claire Hoffman’s superb biography traces the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, a star preacher whose legacy lives on in L.A. despite a scandal-enshrouded disappearance in 1926.
Two miles north of Interstate 10, a cool breeze ruffles the overgrown grass around the Dozier School for Boys.
For decades, the brilliant Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector was hidden from American readers by awful translations that erased her dense, challenging prose (think James Joyce).
This collection of short stories includes the fine ‘Frankenwittgenstein,’ ‘Considering the Bittersweet End of Susan Falls’ and uneven others.
