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In ‘Fourteen Days,’ the Authors Guild shows off its storytellers, including Dave Eggers, Celeste Ng, Scott Turow, Mira Jacob, Tommy Orange, Tess Gerritsen, R. L. Stine, Weike Wang and Ishmael Reed.Your ultimate L.A. Bookhelf is here — a guide to the 110 essential L.A. books, plus essays, supporting quotes and a ranked list of the best of the best.A guide to the literary geography of Los Angeles: A comprehensive bookstore map, writers’ meetups, place histories, an author survey, essays and more.
With Mindy Kaling in her corner, author Amina Akhtar sets out to shake rather than strangle stereotypes Amina Akhtar’s third novel, ‘Almost Surely Dead’ — the next book from Mindy Kaling’s Amazon imprint — is part supernatural thriller, part social commentary, part family saga.N. Scott Momaday, the ‘House Made of Dawn’ author and Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist, has died. He was 89.Journalist Simon Shuster’s new book, ‘The Showman,’ says the former actor’s specialty in improv helped Zelensky reshape his role as president.
Elizabeth Gonzales James’ novel ‘The Bullet Swallower’ tracks the family lore of a Mexican actor — whipping up adventure and tweaking our thirst for violence.Laurie Frankel’s new novel, ‘Family Family,’ stars a woman with controversial opinions and a blended family that would make Tolstoy and the Brady Bunch blush.In Kaveh Akbar’s brilliant debut novel, ‘Martyr!’, an Iranian American man in addiction recovery becomes obsessed with the concept of martyrdom.
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