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'Paradise with a lobotomy' or 'just a big parking lot'? Pick your fave L.A. insult
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe freeways, the smog, the people, the culture, the intellect — nothing and no one is spared when...
Rachel Howzell Hall, George Saunders, James Hannaham among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Los Angeles Times Book Prizes recognize works in 12 categories, with winners to be announced at...
Patt Morrison: Don't let anybody diss L.A.'s reading habits. This was and is a bookstore boomtown
LA Times via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIn bookstores' L.A. heyday, shops were as ubiquitous as a certain coffee chain is today. But we're...
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes winners announced
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJames Ellroy enthusiastically accepts the 2022 Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement at the L.A. Times Book Prizes ceremony Friday. (Varon...
Amanda Gorman, Inaugural Poet, Plans To Run For President
Harper's Bazaar via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen President-elect Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, Amanda...
Pasadena's historic Vroman's bookstore up for sale, along with Book Soup
LA Times via Yahoo News· 5 months agoVroman's Bookstore in Pasadena has been under ownership of the same family for more than a century....
Connie Martinson dies; TV host chatted up more than 2,000 authors on long-running show
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoConnie Martinson, an insatiable reader and admirer of writers, who interviewed thousands of authors on her long-running cable television show, "Connie Martinson Talks Books," has died at her ...
Puzzle solutions for Monday, Aug. 22, 2022
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNote: Most subscribers have some, but not all, of the puzzles that correspond to the following set of solutions for their local newspaper. CROSSWORDS USA...
4 experts explain why Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars is 'romanticized', not 'realistic', 'cosmic...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 8 months agoElon Musk poses with a SpaceX rocket in El Segundo, Los Angeles, in March 2004.Paul Harris/Getty...
Resisting sentimentality, Laird Hunt's latest book is an elegy for a lost generation
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA little more than a century ago, Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” introduced a new kind of American novel: one composed of short stories that share a setting and that elevate, one by one ...