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Get ready for a lively evening at the Verdi Club on Wednesday, October 22, from 7:30 to 9…

By Jeremy Ray Jewell As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “The arc of the moral universe bends toward…

THE launch of a 440-page bumper jubilee yearbook is just one of the many events set to mark…

Some books invite you into quiet contemplation and some books drag you, sometimes unwillingly, into the turbulence of…

The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating the best…

For Mara Wilson, who played the plucky schoolgirl heroine in the 1996 film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “Matilda,”…

Join us at Litquake’s Small Press Book Fair on Sunday, September 28, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.…

Image: Shutterstock.com/New Africa MDPI Books is inviting submissions to its brand-new Early Career Researcher Prize, sponsored by the…

Literature writer Katherine Ouellette recommends five books to read this fall. (Courtesy the publishers) Who am I? Where…

A large number of paragraphs, maybe every paragraph, of Eleanor Doughty’s Heirs and Graces starts like this: “Bert…

Tuesday, 23 September 2025 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Best known for her cookbooks, Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s debut picture book,…

In “The Wonder of Mushrooms,” Spokane author Maya Jewell Zeller begins her opening chapter, “A Kingdom of Fungi”:…

Celebrate the California Book Club’s Fifth Anniversary at Litquake