Exclusive: Tahereh Mafi on her next book, 'A Very Large Expanse of Sea,' about a Muslim American teen after 9/11
Follow
L.A. Times Books
@latimesbooks
Literary news and reviews from the Books section. Sign up for the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter: latimes.com/bookclub
L.A. Times Books’s Tweets
Blue Ivy Carter adds to her resumé with 'Hair Love' audiobook narration
Abcarian: Privileged, tormented, and finally, liberated: Prince Harry unshackles himself from the royal family buff.ly/3QGb0Bt
How Walter Dean Myers was a pioneer of diversity in young adult books
Antarctica scientist allegedly stabs colleague for spoiling the endings of books lat.ms/2Pzi8T6
James Patterson is donating $500,000 to independent bookstores endangered by coronavirus
Michael Mann’s novel based on ‘Heat’ will be released next year
Hundreds in publishing sign letter objecting to book deals for the Trump administration lat.ms/38Meo9A
Literary ambition. Fabulous parties. A hidden past. Who is Anna March? lat.ms/2LSegb0
Conservative youth group will offer Burbank students free copies of challenged books lat.ms/2VX3DdF
What happened when a Florida school tried to pull YA novel by for endorsing hacker culture
Books impresario Lisa Lucas named publisher of Pantheon and Schocken Books lat.ms/3h2M1Fz
Replying to
Best History goes to , “They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South” latimes.com/entertainment-
Joy Harjo appointed U.S. poet laureate, first Native American to hold the title
Poet Yesika Salgado blew up on Instagram. Now her books are breaking literary boundaries
Patton Oswalt discusses memoir 'Silver Screen Fiend' & how a love of movies fed his creativity lat.ms/1Brb1Lx
Replying to
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature goes to Elizabeth Acevedo () for “The Poet X”
Replying to
"I am deeply honored to be the first African American and the third woman to receive the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History since it was first awarded 40 years ago." - latimes.com/entertainment-
1:34
Replying to
After Elizabeth Gilbert's best friend got cancer, Gilbert realized what she felt wasn't just friendship.
Replying to
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction goes to for “The Great Believers: A Novel”
How an acclaimed author decided to start writing fiction for Black women — and herself
In its first day on sale, Michelle Obama's book is already a bestseller
Replying to
Woody Allen’s memoir publisher has threatened to sue HBO over their recent documentary about the director.
Here's why, via
How Quinta Brunson memed her way to success with a little help from her L.A. friends
Replying to
"There is something kind of ironic about winning an award in tribute to the creator of the original American dystopia when we are in a kind of dystopia ... Makes me think even more about Ray Bradbury." - latimes.com/entertainment-
1:46
Kendrick Lamar wins Pulitzer Prize for music for 'Damn.'
Replying to
“The world is in tremendous pain & upheaval with those who are already the worst off being the hardest hit.
We fear for tomorrow, we hope for it, we fight for it. A baby doesn’t care ... No matter how much tomorrow will hurt him, nothing can ever erase his bright, burning today"
1:59
From our archives: Barks & Books at the Glendale Library let kids read aloud to dogs. #NationalDogDay
The National Book Critics Circle winners are announced — and they're all women
Attention, bookworms!
We know you need some inspiration for those quarantine reads. We’re about to announce our latest class of Book Prizes winners right here on this Twitter account at 8 a.m. Pacific
Review: Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel is one of his very best
Replying to
This year, all five finalists in the category of science and technology were women.
Indie bookstore Powell's Books rehires more than 100 employees as online orders soar
#Bookfest panel: Women who love to write humor, but hate being asked how they compare to men lat.ms/1OZbzAa
The National Book Award for Nonfiction goes to Ta-Nehisi Coates for Between the World and Me #NBAwards
'Are men funny?...they often aren’t, but that does not stop them from getting jobs in comedy writing': lat.ms/1OZbzAa
Colin Kaepernick’s new children’s book will explore the beauty in being ‘different’
For the first time since launching in 1980, we’re hosting our annual Book Prizes ceremony virtually!
The awards presentation, which usually kicks off the Festival of Books, will begin at 8 a.m. PST Friday right here on this Twitter account
Stephen King lets teens option a story of his for just $1 lat.ms/2Pbog3Z
Replying to
A cat book even a dog person can love: 'Close Encounters of the Furred Kind' lat.ms/2bOYss8
Replying to
"I'm very pregnant right now and chances are good that I will have brought a poor, innocent baby into this nightmare world by the time we have the Book Prizes." -
1:32
Two sisters turned their passion into the Ripped Bodice, America's only romance-only bookstore lat.ms/2qgT57r
Harper Lee was my David Bowie: How 'Mockingbird' changed one writer's life
Replying to
The prize for Graphic Novel/Comics goes to @tilliewalden for “On a Sunbeam.”
This week, Claudia Rankine's book "Citizen" is required reading, again. latimes.com/books/jacketco
Tomi Adeyemi, Janelle Monáe, Boots Riley among this year's Nebula Awards nominees
Here's a list of books on the experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders 📚
Meet our new U.S. Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith
Remembering David Bowie through his 100 favorite books lat.ms/1P4aPXS
8 books you should read instead of 'Hillbilly Elegy' lat.ms/331HDSy
Pick up today's for our special section dedicated to the Festival of Books! It's our guide to the , featuring the entire schedule, author interviews (below) and a map so you can plan your weekend. See you April 13 & 14 at ! events.latimes.com/festivalofbook
Th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes are about to begin. 📚🏆
Follow along here for updates and winners👇
'Maus' ban makes Art Spiegelman's Holocaust graphic novel an Amazon bestseller
Replying to
Congratulations to all of our new winners of the Book Prizes!
Check out the full list here 📚💕
'Reading Rainbow' host will publish his first book for kids this fall for the next generation of readers
Novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge thinks the Song of Solomon is 'the "WAP" of the Bible'
L.A. Times Book Prize finalists include Michelle Obama and Susan Orlean; Terry Tempest Williams receives lifetime achievement award
Photos: Hemingway's perfectly preserved home in Cuba, including hunting trophies lat.ms/1RolL7i #LATCuba
Longlist revealed for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Replying to
"These are dark times, yes, but that darkness, that void is also a break from business as usual. A crack, out of which maybe a revolution will emerge.
Art is survival, too, so I say make art, paint it, record it, dance it, write it down.” -
1:50
'Station Eleven' author Emily St. John Mandel joins the L.A. Times Book Club May 19
The star Japanese crime novelist almost too good to translate
We asked what she learned while writing her latest "The Library Book"
"[L.A.] is a place that’s got an incredibly rich literary history that’s as luminous as its Hollywood history."
0:32
Let's be thankful for the beautiful, idiosyncratic bookstores of Los Angeles lat.ms/1uzIdjB
Exclusive: YALLWest teen book festival announces 2016 lineup lat.ms/1oqUmHW
Replying to
"It is written in memory of my parents, who were refugees and gave up everything for me.
This award also recognizes, in the middle of a global pandemic, someone who lives with disability ... We also see the dangers of a system that ignores disability" -
2:20
LA has its share of glorious beaches, photogenic humans -- and beautiful bookstores lat.ms/1uzIdjB
It's been a busy day in the #bookfest newsroom.
Here are some of our favorite portraits from Day 2 of the Festival of Books.
📸:
latimes.com/books/
A reading guide on the Asian American experience from Viet Thanh Nguyen, Charles Yu and more lat.ms/2P4MH4Z
Replying to
"Life is about relationships. I learned this lesson from my mother and I learn it again every day that I'm alive in this crisis.
We lean on each other ... I greet you from this small place, alive and aware of what I owe." - latimes.com/entertainment-
1:42
Replying to
The first award of the night: The winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose is for “Heavy: An American Memoir”
What you are getting wrong about Appalachia
A San Francisco bookstore offers free copies of George Orwell's '1984'
Stephen King, Junot Diaz and 600 other authors want to stop Trump lat.ms/1XRCkwd
The Festival of Books starts today. Hooray! Here's some stuff to know before you go: lat.ms/2VEaoz2
Looking for something good to read? Our summer books preview has 143 titles to add to your reading list lat.ms/1krhjFN
Winners of the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prizes announced lat.ms/2RIsymj
ICYMI here’s a peek at our LA Times Book Club night with via
Replying to
“My book is a lot about the forces driving mass incarceration. And at this moment, people in jail or in prison are at tremendous risk for the coronavirus. So, I want to take a moment to think about them and for us to consider their health and safety.” -
0:42
Book Club: Jennifer Grey dishes on the stories behind 'Dirty Dancing'
Here are the 20 essential L.A. crime books
Replying to
Here's the full list of finalists for the L.A. Times Book Prizes
The winner of the 2014 LA Times Art Seidenbaum First Fiction prize is Valeria Luiselli for 'Faces in the Crowd.' #bookfest
George Takei, on a mission, targets young readers with graphic memoir lat.ms/2HkjXy6
Replying to
"We're going to need renewed and refreshed languages of loving and mourning and collective living in the wake of what's happening now, and literature is one laboratory for those languages." - latimes.com/entertainment-
1:10