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L.A.'s writers make their case for their absolute favorite books on the city
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year ago95 writers with deep ties to Los Angeles weighed in on the L.A. books that affected them most....
A.S. Byatt, British writer and author of Booker Prize-winning 'Possession,' dies at 87
LA Times via Yahoo News· 6 months ago"Possession" author A.S. Byatt has died, her longtime publisher announced. She was 87. (Ulf Andersen...
How Carolyn Bessette Met John F. Kennedy Jr.
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days agoBOOKS IN SPRING 1992, Calvin Klein was just getting back into menswear. None other than John F. Kennedy Jr.—People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive of...
'Survivor 44's Josh Wilder Says He Was "Heartbroken" By His Relationship with Yam Yam
Parade via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe surgical podiatrist also gets into his thinking behind both his fake job and fake idol. Survivor...
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 ...
The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Short Stories
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe 13 most essential L.A. works of short fiction, from a Little Tokyo proto-noir to Fitzgerald, Wodehouse, Bradbury and generations of Chicano pioneers.
Joe Camp, Writer and Director of the ‘Benji’ Movies, Dies at 84
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 2 months agoJoe Camp, the writer, director and producer who taught that old dog Hollywood new tricks about...
The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Fiction
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoL.A.'s 16 essential works of literary fiction, from 'The Day of the Locust' to 'If He Hollers Let Him Go,' 'Play it as it Lays' to 'Interior Chinatown.'
How COVID and an antique marriage bed inspired Lisa See's new historical novel
LA Times via Yahoo News· 12 months agoL.A. author Lisa See explains how her historical novel about a doctor, 'Lady Tan's Circle of Women,'...
How lawyer-author Orlando Ortega-Medina turned his exile from L.A. into a legal thriller
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year ago'The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants' began as a memoir about Orlando Ortega-Medina's exile from a homophobic U.S. How it became an immigration thriller instead
