Esinam Bediako won the Ann Petry Award from the Pasadena-based publisher for her debut novel, ‘Blood on the Brain,’ out in ...

Red Hook is best known to today’s New Yorkers for the blue and yellow glow of its IKEA store, pulling in urban furniture ...

In Ingvild Rishoi’s novella, two Norwegian girls with an alcoholic father begin working at a Christmas tree stand to scrape ...

Lili Anolik’s dual biography of Joan Didion and Eve Babitz makes a compelling case that the literary icons weren’t just ...

Is Nabokov’s novel morally offensive? Patently, it is not. We live in a universe of treacherous choices, of corruption and ...

“It’s a good feeling to know that maybe we do make a difference to other people, and I think that helps a lot, too.” New ...

Pro-Palestinian and other modern activists are resonating this new musical about a group of Egyptian college students during ...

Among my favorite local bookstores are Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, Skylight Books in Los Feliz, Chevalier’s Books in ...

He always wanted to do a book, and living in Los Angeles for many years brought him closer to his in-laws in Santa Barbara, ...

Alum draws upon friendship with ‘A River Runs Through It’ to illustrate how teacher and writer inspired generations of ...

The 61st annual Friends of the Waco-McLennan County Library Book Sale will run Thursday through Sunday in the Base at the ...