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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <channel><lastBuildDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:06:38 GMT</lastBuildDate><title>Books</title><link>https://www.latimes.com</link><language>en-US</language><copyright>Los Angeles Times © 2021</copyright><atom:link href="https://www.latimes.com/books/rss2.0.xml" type="application/rss+xml" rel="self"/><item><title>'Rebel' redacted: Rebel Wilson's book chapter on Sacha Baron Cohen struck from some copies</title><dc:creator>Alexandra Del Rosario</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:06:38 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-25/rebel-wilson-sacha-baron-cohen-chapter-redacted-rebel-rising</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-25/rebel-wilson-sacha-baron-cohen-chapter-redacted-rebel-rising</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Rebel Wilson and team opt to keep parts of her book 'Rebel Rising' from hitting some shelves — to avoid legal backlash from former co-star Sacha Baron Cohen.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rebel Wilson and team opt to keep parts of her book 'Rebel Rising' from hitting some shelves — to avoid legal backlash from former co-star Sacha Baron Cohen.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The independent publisher making a business of celebrity book imprints</title><dc:creator>Meredith Maran</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:02:25 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-24/celebrity-book-imprints-zando-sarah-jessica-parker-lena-waithe</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-24/celebrity-book-imprints-zando-sarah-jessica-parker-lena-waithe</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Independent publisher Zando's highest-visibility imprints are its collabs with celebrities, which are part of its mission to change the institutional racism that has plagued American publishing from its start.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Independent publisher Zando's highest-visibility imprints are its collabs with celebrities, which are part of its mission to change the institutional racism that has plagued American publishing from its start.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The week's bestselling books, April 28</title><dc:creator>The California Independent Booksellers Alliance</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:00:23 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-24/the-weeks-bestselling-books-april-28</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-24/the-weeks-bestselling-books-april-28</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 28, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 28, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4bcb069/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x2000+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F89%2F93%2F2cd3225e4f578d8a9473f7e8f5ed%2Fsocal-best-sellers.jpg" height="2000" width="3000"> <media:title>SoCal-Weekly-Bestsellers-Lede.jpeg</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Doris Kearns Goodwin and husband Dick Goodwin lived, observed, created and chronicled the 1960s </title><dc:creator>Julia M. Klein</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:00:41 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-04-24/doris-kearns-goodwin-dick-goodwin-1960s-history-memoir</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-04-24/doris-kearns-goodwin-dick-goodwin-1960s-history-memoir</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>A mix of history, memoir and biography, this book reflects on how time, perspective and stories left unwritten can shape our view of the past.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A mix of history, memoir and biography, this book reflects on how time, perspective and stories left unwritten can shape our view of the past.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>PEN America cancels awards ceremony amid backlash to stance on Israel-Hamas war</title><dc:creator>Kaitlyn Huamani</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 21:07:18 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-22/pen-america-awards-canceled-israel-hamas-war</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-22/pen-america-awards-canceled-israel-hamas-war</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Nonprofit PEN America canceled its annual awards ceremony honoring authors amid criticism of its response to the Israel-Hamas war.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nonprofit PEN America canceled its annual awards ceremony honoring authors amid criticism of its response to the Israel-Hamas war.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>David Mamet slams Hollywood's 'garbage' DEI initiatives. 'It's fascist totalitarianism'</title><dc:creator>Jireh Deng</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 03:07:16 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-21/david-mamet-hollywood-diversity-dei-initiatives-festival-of-books</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-21/david-mamet-hollywood-diversity-dei-initiatives-festival-of-books</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>At the L.A. Times Festival of Books, playwright and filmmaker David Mamet blames age, not his conservative politics or inflammatory statements, for his fall from grace.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At the L.A. Times Festival of Books, playwright and filmmaker David Mamet blames age, not his conservative politics or inflammatory statements, for his fall from grace.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3e3b57b/2147483647/strip/false/crop/2940x1590+0+0/resize/1500x811!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Faa%2Fb7%2Fa0ae395a401088c2e4f1ea637417%2Fdavid-mamet-fob.jpg" height="1590" width="2940"> <media:title>David Mamet FOB.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[A screen shot of David Mamet during the Festival of Books livestream.]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Best portraits from the Festival of Books: John Green, Henry Winkler and more</title><dc:creator>Taylor Arthur</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2024 02:27:41 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-20/best-portraits-from-the-festival-of-books-john-green-henry-winkler-and-more</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-20/best-portraits-from-the-festival-of-books-john-green-henry-winkler-and-more</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The 29th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books returned to USC with a first-ever livestream of activities. </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The 29th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books returned to USC with a first-ever livestream of activities. </p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/13167d7/2147483647/strip/false/crop/5742x3828+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F7c%2Fcd%2F7f917e6b438da6ab6021ab064c60%2F1438809-wk-portrait-studio-fob-20242315.jpg" height="3828" width="5742"> <media:title>1438809-wk-portrait-studio-fob-20242315.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA - April 21: Clayton Grimm, "Blippi," in the Los Angeles Times Portrait Studio at the Festival of Books in Los Angeles, CA, Sunday, April 21, 2024. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>L.A. Times Book Prize winners named in a ceremony filled with support for USC valedictorian Asna Tabassum</title><dc:creator>Jessica Gelt</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 05:08:39 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-19/la-times-book-prizes-winners-2024</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-19/la-times-book-prizes-winners-2024</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Winners at the 2024 L.A. Times Book Prizes included Ed Park for fiction, Ivy Pochoda for mystery/thriller and the pro-Palestinian commencement speaker whose name has become a rallying cry for free speech.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Winners at the 2024 L.A. Times Book Prizes included Ed Park for fiction, Ivy Pochoda for mystery/thriller and the pro-Palestinian commencement speaker whose name has become a rallying cry for free speech.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>19 great Hollywood books we missed, according to our readers</title><dc:creator>Matt Brennan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:00:15 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-19/the-19-great-hollywood-books-we-missed-readers-ultimate-hollywood-bookshelf</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-19/the-19-great-hollywood-books-we-missed-readers-ultimate-hollywood-bookshelf</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>We chose our Ultimate Hollywood Bookshelf, and readers responded with the many, many titles we missed. Here are some of the best responses. </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We chose our Ultimate Hollywood Bookshelf, and readers responded with the many, many titles we missed. Here are some of the best responses. </p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/eaea031/2147483647/strip/false/crop/2400x1600+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F8b%2F67%2F12f8ff9a489b9f286ba5342f63fd%2Ffob-2024-readers-digital2-new.jpg" height="1600" width="2400"> <media:title>FOB-2024-Readers_digital2.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Here are some of the best Hollywood books that we missed, according to our readers.]]></media:description> </media:content></item><item><title>Author Sophie Kinsella reveals that she's had brain cancer since 2022: 'All is stable'</title><dc:creator>Nardine Saad</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 20:47:09 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-17/sophie-kinsella-brain-cancer-glioblastoma-shopaholic-author</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-17/sophie-kinsella-brain-cancer-glioblastoma-shopaholic-author</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>'Confessions of a Shopaholic' scribe Sophie Kinsella reveals she was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2022. Since then she's had surgery, radiation and chemo.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>'Confessions of a Shopaholic' scribe Sophie Kinsella reveals she was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2022. Since then she's had surgery, radiation and chemo.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The week's bestselling books, April 21</title><dc:creator>The California Independent Booksellers Alliance</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 13:00:26 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-17/the-weeks-bestselling-books-april-21</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-17/the-weeks-bestselling-books-april-21</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 21, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 21, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4bcb069/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x2000+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F89%2F93%2F2cd3225e4f578d8a9473f7e8f5ed%2Fsocal-best-sellers.jpg" height="2000" width="3000"> <media:title>SoCal-Weekly-Bestsellers-Lede.jpeg</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>He wasn't a crier, but then his wife died — and the tears wouldn't stop. How one father found his way forward</title><dc:creator>Richard Harris</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:00:20 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-17/coping-with-death-of-spouse-waving-goodbye-warren-kozak</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-17/coping-with-death-of-spouse-waving-goodbye-warren-kozak</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>When bereavement books didn't help Warren Kozak, he decided to write his own. Only after he was done did he realize that his book about loss was really a book about love. </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When bereavement books didn't help Warren Kozak, he decided to write his own. Only after he was done did he realize that his book about loss was really a book about love. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>This trans author toured red-state libraries. What she found might surprise you</title><dc:creator>Diana Goetsch</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:00:08 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-17/scenes-from-a-red-state-tour</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-17/scenes-from-a-red-state-tour</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Diana Goetsch spent months visiting red-state libraries to do presentations on the freedom to read. Would she be recognized, or clocked as transgender? </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Diana Goetsch spent months visiting red-state libraries to do presentations on the freedom to read. Would she be recognized, or clocked as transgender? </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Salman Rushdie's 'Knife' recounts his stabbing. His press tour has its own revelations</title><dc:creator>Alexandra Del Rosario</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:30:34 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-15/salman-rushdie-stabbing-memoir-knife-hadi-matar</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-15/salman-rushdie-stabbing-memoir-knife-hadi-matar</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Salman Rushdie's new memoir, 'Knife,' hits shelves on Tuesday, nearly two years after Hadi Matar allegedly nearly killed him in a stabbing attack.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Salman Rushdie's new memoir, 'Knife,' hits shelves on Tuesday, nearly two years after Hadi Matar allegedly nearly killed him in a stabbing attack.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>'Alienist' author Caleb Carr — grieving his late cat — reflects on his life amid battle with cancer</title><dc:creator>Chris Vognar</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:00:43 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-15/caleb-carr-cancer-cat-book-my-beloved-monster</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-15/caleb-carr-cancer-cat-book-my-beloved-monster</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Caleb Carr discusses grief and dying — subjects that linger over his new nonfiction book, "My Beloved Monster," and now loom over what might be the final months of his life.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Caleb Carr discusses grief and dying — subjects that linger over his new nonfiction book, "My Beloved Monster," and now loom over what might be the final months of his life.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>From Pomona to Oakland, how a skater mapped California block by block from his board</title><dc:creator>Zan Romanoff</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 10:00:02 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-04-12/from-pomona-to-oakland-how-a-skater-mapped-california-from-atop-his-board</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-04-12/from-pomona-to-oakland-how-a-skater-mapped-california-from-atop-his-board</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>José Vadi's "Chipped: Writing From a Skateboarder's Lens" is a granular but accessible look at the practice and subculture of the sport.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>José Vadi's "Chipped: Writing From a Skateboarder's Lens" is a granular but accessible look at the practice and subculture of the sport.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/6c87c07/2147483647/strip/false/crop/4000x2667+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F22%2Ffe%2Ff4d60b92039e4edc6528e219e9fd%2F3078969-la-he-outdoors-skateboard-parks-guide-venice-26.JPG" height="2667" width="4000"> <media:title>3078969_la-he-outdoors-skateboard-parks-guide-venice_26.JPG</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES, CA-MAY 7, 2019: Ethan DeMoulin attempts to jump over a gap at Venice Skate Park on May 7, 2019, in Los Angeles, California. The skatepark is one of the only in the world located on a beach. (Photo By Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>How the creators of HBO's 'The Sympathizer' explore the 'American War' through a Vietnamese lens</title><dc:creator>Laura Zornosa</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:28:43 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-04-11/the-sympathizer-park-chan-wook-hbo</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-04-11/the-sympathizer-park-chan-wook-hbo</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar, the creators of HBO's 'The Sympathizer,' discuss how they adapted Viet Thanh Nguyen's 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar, the creators of HBO's 'The Sympathizer,' discuss how they adapted Viet Thanh Nguyen's 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Valentina, Justin Torres and more on the Latinidad Stage at the L.A. Times Festival of Books</title><dc:creator>Cerys Davies</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 21:47:48 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2024-04-10/la-times-festival-of-books-latinidad-stage-valentina-justin-torres</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2024-04-10/la-times-festival-of-books-latinidad-stage-valentina-justin-torres</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>With the help of award-winning authors and distinguished speakers, De Los and L.A. Times en Español are bringing all things Latinidad to the Festival of Books.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With the help of award-winning authors and distinguished speakers, De Los and L.A. Times en Español are bringing all things Latinidad to the Festival of Books.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e010d8f/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1080x1350+0+0/resize/1080x1350!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F25%2F20%2F3d06d15a4f2b8fc0e8ab160b7579%2Ffob.jpg" height="1350" width="1080"> <media:title>FOB.jpg</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Diana Ramirez/De Los; Photos by Junior Santillan, Jay L. Clendenin/ La Times, and Merrick Morton / Hollywood Pictures]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The week's bestselling books, April 14</title><dc:creator>The California Independent Booksellers Alliance</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:00:31 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-10/the-weeks-bestselling-books-april-14</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-10/the-weeks-bestselling-books-april-14</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 14, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 14, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4bcb069/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x2000+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F89%2F93%2F2cd3225e4f578d8a9473f7e8f5ed%2Fsocal-best-sellers.jpg" height="2000" width="3000"> <media:title>SoCal-Weekly-Bestsellers-Lede.jpeg</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Why Pauline Kael's fight over 'Citizen Kane' still matters, whichever side you're on</title><dc:creator>Amy Nicholson</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 8 Apr 2024 10:00:36 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/pauline-kael-raising-kane-citizen-kane-orson-welles-herman-mankiewicz-no-40-best-hollywood-books</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/pauline-kael-raising-kane-citizen-kane-orson-welles-herman-mankiewicz-no-40-best-hollywood-books</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Novella-length essay 'Raising Kane' is ranked no. 40 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because it started a fight that forced everyone to take a side.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Novella-length essay 'Raising Kane' is ranked no. 40 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because it started a fight that forced everyone to take a side.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/0b77b3f/2147483647/strip/false/crop/2400x1600+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F9c%2F78%2F2088ebfe472b80afbb9052181aac%2Ffob-2024-essay-7-raising-kane.jpg" height="1600" width="2400"> <media:title>FOB-2024-Essay 7-Raising Kane.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Ultimate Hollywood Bookshelf essay illustration for Pauline Kael's book "Raising Kane" or "The Citizen Kane Book"]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Golden Cosmos / For The Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Hollywood's bravest and most foolhardy memoir wasn't written by a movie star </title><dc:creator>Carolyn Kellogg</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 8 Apr 2024 10:00:36 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/julia-phillips-youll-never-eat-lunch-in-this-town-again-no-31-best-hollywood-books</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/julia-phillips-youll-never-eat-lunch-in-this-town-again-no-31-best-hollywood-books</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>'You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again' ranks No. 31 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because it's the ultimate Icarus story, unflinchingly detailing its author's descent.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>'You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again' ranks No. 31 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because it's the ultimate Icarus story, unflinchingly detailing its author's descent.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/368ea24/2147483647/strip/false/crop/2400x1600+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff3%2F20%2Fef97cc544ce1ac2da70676837a73%2Ffob-2024-essay-5-youll-never-eat-lunch.jpg" height="1600" width="2400"> <media:title>FOB-2024-Essay 5-You'll Never Eat Lunch.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Ultimate Hollywood Bookshelf essay illustration for Julia Phillips' book "You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again"]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Golden Cosmos / For The Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The story of epochal flop 'Heaven's Gate' isn't a disaster yarn. It's a cautionary tale</title><dc:creator>Mark Athitakis</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 8 Apr 2024 10:00:34 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/steven-bach-final-cut-heavens-gate-united-artists-no-18-best-hollywood-books</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/steven-bach-final-cut-heavens-gate-united-artists-no-18-best-hollywood-books</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>'Final Cut' ranks No. 18 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because it treats the saga of Michael Cimino's 1980 Western as an emblem of the era it brought to a close. </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>'Final Cut' ranks No. 18 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because it treats the saga of Michael Cimino's 1980 Western as an emblem of the era it brought to a close. </p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/792014e/2147483647/strip/false/crop/2400x1600+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F70%2F01%2F993fd65346eabe43d37fc0b50199%2Ffob-2024-essay-04-3-final-cut.jpg" height="1600" width="2400"> <media:title>FOB-2024-Essay 04_3-Final Cut.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Ultimate Hollywood Bookshelf essay illustration for "Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists"]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Golden Cosmos / For The Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>A journalist grapples with her new identity as an Army wife</title><dc:creator>Bethanne Patrick</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 8 Apr 2024 10:00:33 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/simone-gorrindo-military-spouse-book-the-wives</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/simone-gorrindo-military-spouse-book-the-wives</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Simone Gorrindo's new memoir, 'The Wives,' details her 12 years as a military spouse and how she grappled with her new identity.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Simone Gorrindo's new memoir, 'The Wives,' details her 12 years as a military spouse and how she grappled with her new identity.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The book that documented, and shaped, the course of Black Hollywood history</title><dc:creator>Chris Vognar</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 8 Apr 2024 10:00:28 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/donald-bogle-toms-coons-mulattoes-mammies-and-bucks-black-cinema-no-39-best-hollywood-books</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/donald-bogle-toms-coons-mulattoes-mammies-and-bucks-black-cinema-no-39-best-hollywood-books</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>'Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks' ranks No. 39 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because it wasn't just a taxonomy. It was a reclamation. </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>'Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks' ranks No. 39 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because it wasn't just a taxonomy. It was a reclamation. </p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b88a638/2147483647/strip/false/crop/2400x1600+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F2c%2F5d%2F6151fd644461aa9201f6bcd69cf1%2Ffob-2024-essay-6-toms-coons.jpg" height="1600" width="2400"> <media:title>FOB-2024-Essay 6-Toms Coons.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Ultimate Hollywood Bookshelf essay illustration for Donald Bogle's book "Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films"]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Golden Cosmos / For The Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>An addictively readable history of the Hollywood Renaissance, with one glaring omission</title><dc:creator>David Kipen</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 8 Apr 2024 10:00:27 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/peter-biskind-easy-riders-raging-bulls-no-9-best-hollywood-books</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/peter-biskind-easy-riders-raging-bulls-no-9-best-hollywood-books</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls' ranks No. 9 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because its juicy anecdotes also tell a story about craft. But that doesn't mean it's perfect.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls' ranks No. 9 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because its juicy anecdotes also tell a story about craft. But that doesn't mean it's perfect.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f190ffe/2147483647/strip/false/crop/2400x1600+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F94%2F27%2F72097991463da0560b9f98b4b124%2Ffob-2024-essay-02-3-easy-rider.jpg" height="1600" width="2400"> <media:title>FOB-2024-Essay 02_3-Easy Rider.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Ultimate Hollywood Bookshelf illustration for "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" by Peter Biskind]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Golden Cosmos / For The Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>We chose the best Hollywood books of all time. What's on your list?</title><dc:creator>Matt Brennan</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 8 Apr 2024 10:00:25 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/ultimate-hollywood-bookshelf-readers-respond</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/ultimate-hollywood-bookshelf-readers-respond</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>We ranked the best Hollywood books of all time in advance of this year's Festival of Books. Now we want to hear about your favorites — including any we missed. </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We ranked the best Hollywood books of all time in advance of this year's Festival of Books. Now we want to hear about your favorites — including any we missed. </p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/49594b8/2147483647/strip/false/crop/2400x1600+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F8e%2F85%2Ff519c1cc478794d31978105dd4e3%2Ffob-2024-introduction.jpg" height="1600" width="2400"> <media:title>FOB-2024-introduction.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Illustration for The Ultimate Hollywood Bookshelf]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Golden Cosmos / For The Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>How Carrie Fisher became Hollywood's master ventriloquist in 'Postcards From the Edge'</title><dc:creator>Manuel Betancourt</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 8 Apr 2024 10:00:22 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/carrie-fisher-postcards-from-the-edge-no-15-best-hollywood-books</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/carrie-fisher-postcards-from-the-edge-no-15-best-hollywood-books</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>'Postcards From the Edge' is ranked no. 15 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because it proves Carrie Fisher wasn't just mining her own life in her caustic comic writing.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>'Postcards From the Edge' is ranked no. 15 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because it proves Carrie Fisher wasn't just mining her own life in her caustic comic writing.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a1c74f8/2147483647/strip/false/crop/2400x1600+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F44%2Fa8%2F39b12cde43b38bce1bbf7721b116%2Ffob-2024-essay-03-postcards-from-the-edge.jpg" height="1600" width="2400"> <media:title>FOB-2024-Essay 03-Postcards From the Edge.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Ultimate Hollywood Bookshelf essay illustration for "Postcards From the Edge" by Carrie Fisher]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Golden Cosmos / For The Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>What Joan Didion's broken Hollywood can teach us about our own </title><dc:creator>Matt Brennan</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 8 Apr 2024 10:00:08 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/joan-didion-play-it-as-it-lays-no-1-best-hollywood-books</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-08/joan-didion-play-it-as-it-lays-no-1-best-hollywood-books</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>'Play It As It Lays' ranks No. 1 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because it speaks to today's Tinseltown as much as it did Didion's. </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>'Play It As It Lays' ranks No. 1 on our list of the best Hollywood books of all time because it speaks to today's Tinseltown as much as it did Didion's. </p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d962ce9/2147483647/strip/false/crop/2400x1600+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F57%2F28%2Fb3dedcc14e2a84440541c8f30a67%2Ffob-2024-essay-1-play-it-as-it-lays.jpg" height="1600" width="2400"> <media:title>FOB-2024-Essay 1-Play It As It Lays.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Illustration for Festival of Books Premium: "Play It As It Lays" by Joan Didion]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Golden Cosmos / For The Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The week's bestselling books, April 7</title><dc:creator>The California Independent Booksellers Alliance</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 3 Apr 2024 13:00:54 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-03/the-weeks-bestselling-books-april-7</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-03/the-weeks-bestselling-books-april-7</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 7, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, April 7, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4bcb069/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x2000+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F89%2F93%2F2cd3225e4f578d8a9473f7e8f5ed%2Fsocal-best-sellers.jpg" height="2000" width="3000"> <media:title>SoCal-Weekly-Bestsellers-Lede.jpeg</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>3 best mystery books to read this spring</title><dc:creator>Paula L. Woods</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 3 Apr 2024 10:00:12 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-03/best-mystery-books-to-read-spring</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-03/best-mystery-books-to-read-spring</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Explore the mysteries of fictional and real worlds with four Los Angeles writers who pay homage to giants of the genre while creating stories that are irresistible in their own right.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Explore the mysteries of fictional and real worlds with four Los Angeles writers who pay homage to giants of the genre while creating stories that are irresistible in their own right.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>L.A. author Kathryn Scanlan wins $175,000 literary prize: 'Baffling and wonderful'</title><dc:creator>Eva Hartman</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 2 Apr 2024 18:15:16 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-02/kathryn-scanlan-literary-windham-campbell-prize-los-angeles-writer</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-02/kathryn-scanlan-literary-windham-campbell-prize-los-angeles-writer</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>'Kick the Latch' author Kathryn Scanlan joins a congregation of literary stars linked by the Windham-Campbell Prize, for which she was anonymously nominated.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>'Kick the Latch' author Kathryn Scanlan joins a congregation of literary stars linked by the Windham-Campbell Prize, for which she was anonymously nominated.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>'I'm a liar. I'm a thief. I'm capable of almost anything.'</title><dc:creator>Jeffrey Fleishman</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 2 Apr 2024 10:00:45 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-02/la-et-gagne-sociopath-memoir</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-02/la-et-gagne-sociopath-memoir</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Not all sociopaths are dangerous, Patric Gagne says, adding: 'You could be sleeping next to one.' Her new book is an exploration of an often stereotyped mental disorder. </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not all sociopaths are dangerous, Patric Gagne says, adding: 'You could be sleeping next to one.' Her new book is an exploration of an often stereotyped mental disorder. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Why Don Winslow's 'City in Ruins' will be his last novel</title><dc:creator>Jim Ruland</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 1 Apr 2024 17:02:03 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-02/don-winslow-retiring-city-in-ruins-last-novel</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-04-02/don-winslow-retiring-city-in-ruins-last-novel</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Don Winslow reveals why his latest novel, 'City in Ruins,' the final installment in the Danny Ryan series, will be his last.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don Winslow reveals why his latest novel, 'City in Ruins,' the final installment in the Danny Ryan series, will be his last.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The week's bestselling books, March 31</title><dc:creator>The California Independent Booksellers Alliance</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:00:21 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-27/the-weeks-bestselling-books-march-31</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-27/the-weeks-bestselling-books-march-31</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 31, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 31, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4bcb069/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x2000+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F89%2F93%2F2cd3225e4f578d8a9473f7e8f5ed%2Fsocal-best-sellers.jpg" height="2000" width="3000"> <media:title>SoCal-Weekly-Bestsellers-Lede.jpeg</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Storytellers can inspire climate action without killing hope</title><dc:creator>Lorraine Berry</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:00:35 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-26/book-review-lydia-millet-we-loved-it-all-climate-change</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-26/book-review-lydia-millet-we-loved-it-all-climate-change</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Lydia Millet's 'We Loved It All: A Memory of Life' examines the climate crisis from a distance but soars in its exploration of how language can provoke empathy and action.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lydia Millet's 'We Loved It All: A Memory of Life' examines the climate crisis from a distance but soars in its exploration of how language can provoke empathy and action.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Sacha Baron Cohen counters Rebel Wilson after she claims reps 'bullied' her over book</title><dc:creator>Alexandra Del Rosario</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 17:12:32 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-03-25/sacha-baron-cohen-rebel-wilson-bullied-silenced-memoir-rebel-rising-brothers-grimsby</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-03-25/sacha-baron-cohen-rebel-wilson-bullied-silenced-memoir-rebel-rising-brothers-grimsby</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Sacha Baron Cohen responded to Rebel Wilson's claims from the set of 'The Brothers Grimsby.' The 'Borat' star inspires a chapter in Wilson's new memoir. </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sacha Baron Cohen responded to Rebel Wilson's claims from the set of 'The Brothers Grimsby.' The 'Borat' star inspires a chapter in Wilson's new memoir. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The week's bestselling books, March 24</title><dc:creator>The California Independent Booksellers Alliance</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 13:00:05 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-20/the-weeks-bestselling-books-march-24</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-20/the-weeks-bestselling-books-march-24</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 24, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 24, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4bcb069/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x2000+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F89%2F93%2F2cd3225e4f578d8a9473f7e8f5ed%2Fsocal-best-sellers.jpg" height="2000" width="3000"> <media:title>SoCal-Weekly-Bestsellers-Lede.jpeg</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>In 'The Exvangelicals,' Sarah McCammon tells the tale of losing her religion </title><dc:creator>Randall Balmer</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 10:00:55 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-20/white-christian-evangelical-sarah-mccammon-exvangelicals-autobiography</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-20/white-christian-evangelical-sarah-mccammon-exvangelicals-autobiography</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Leaving Christian evangelicalism means sacrificing community and the security of 'answers' to life's vexing questions. There are few smooth landings.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leaving Christian evangelicalism means sacrificing community and the security of 'answers' to life's vexing questions. There are few smooth landings.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Instead of writing about Princess Diana, Chris Bohjalian opted for her Vegas impersonator</title><dc:creator>Bethanne Patrick</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2024 10:00:24 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-19/princess-diana-chris-bohjalian-new-book-princess-of-las-vegas</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-19/princess-diana-chris-bohjalian-new-book-princess-of-las-vegas</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Author Chris Bohjalian discusses his 25th novel, 'The Princess of Las Vegas,' and how ancestral trauma from his Armenian heritage contributes to the dread in his work.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Author Chris Bohjalian discusses his 25th novel, 'The Princess of Las Vegas,' and how ancestral trauma from his Armenian heritage contributes to the dread in his work.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>50 years after Candy Darling's death, Warhol superstar's struggle as a trans actress still resonates</title><dc:creator>Jessica Ferri</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:00:42 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-18/candy-darling-trans-rights-book</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-18/candy-darling-trans-rights-book</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Cynthia Carr's new book chronicles the struggles of Warhol superstar and trans actress Candy Darling.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cynthia Carr's new book chronicles the struggles of Warhol superstar and trans actress Candy Darling.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>How Keith Haring's art transcended critics, bigotry and a merciless virus</title><dc:creator>Jessica Ferri</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:00:43 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-15/keith-haring-radiant-brad-gooch-art-book-review</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-15/keith-haring-radiant-brad-gooch-art-book-review</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Biographer Brad Gooch's "Radiant" reveals how much life and creativity artist Keith Haring packed into 31 years before he died of AIDS.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Biographer Brad Gooch's "Radiant" reveals how much life and creativity artist Keith Haring packed into 31 years before he died of AIDS.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>How the 'Manhunt' cast prepared to depict Lincoln's assassination and the Civil War</title><dc:creator>Stuart Miller</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:00:15 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-03-15/manhunt-apple-tv-adaptation-lincoln-civil-war</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-03-15/manhunt-apple-tv-adaptation-lincoln-civil-war</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>James L. Swanson's bestselling book is the basis for Apple TV+'s "Manhunt," but the cast and creator also turned to historical documents from the real people depicted.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>James L. Swanson's bestselling book is the basis for Apple TV+'s "Manhunt," but the cast and creator also turned to historical documents from the real people depicted.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Dan Wakefield, prolific author and journalist, dies at 91</title><dc:creator>Summer Lin</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 01:46:42 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-03-14/writer-dan-wakefield-dies-at-91</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-03-14/writer-dan-wakefield-dies-at-91</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Dan Wakefield, the novelist and journalist who wrote about diverse topics including his journey with spirituality and the civil rights movement, died Wednesday at 91 years old. </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dan Wakefield, the novelist and journalist who wrote about diverse topics including his journey with spirituality and the civil rights movement, died Wednesday at 91 years old. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Commentary: How 'The Girls on the Bus' depicts journalists would be fun, if it weren't so dangerous</title><dc:creator>Mary McNamara</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:00:42 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-03-14/the-girls-on-the-bus-max-journalism</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-03-14/the-girls-on-the-bus-max-journalism</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The Max series inspired by Amy Chozick's 2018 book "Chasing Hillary" is more like the love child of "Scandal" and "The Sex Lives of College Girls" than a real portrait of reporting.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Max series inspired by Amy Chozick's 2018 book "Chasing Hillary" is more like the love child of "Scandal" and "The Sex Lives of College Girls" than a real portrait of reporting.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>L.A. Times Festival of Books lineup features Ariana Madix, RuPaul, Kerry Washington, Lauren Graham and more</title><dc:creator>Jessica Gelt</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 13:00:37 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-13/la-times-festival-of-books-2024-speakers-panels</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-13/la-times-festival-of-books-2024-speakers-panels</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The 2024 L.A. Times Festival of Books lineup features RuPaul, Ariana Madix, Kerry Washington, Lauren Graham and more, including high-profile chef José Andrés.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The 2024 L.A. Times Festival of Books lineup features RuPaul, Ariana Madix, Kerry Washington, Lauren Graham and more, including high-profile chef José Andrés.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9c27686/2147483647/strip/false/crop/4500x3000+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff8%2F26%2Fd4585829479cb61d53e013552a21%2Fariana-madix-rupaul-kerry-washington-lauren-graham.jpg" height="3000" width="4500"> <media:title>Ariana Madix, RuPaul, Lauren Graham and Kerry Washington</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Clockwise from top left: Ariana Madix, RuPaul, Lauren Graham and Kerry Washington.]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times; Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP; Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP; Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The week's bestselling books, March 17</title><dc:creator>The California Independent Booksellers Alliance</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 13:00:29 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-13/the-weeks-bestselling-books-march-17</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-13/the-weeks-bestselling-books-march-17</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 17, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 17, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4bcb069/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x2000+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F89%2F93%2F2cd3225e4f578d8a9473f7e8f5ed%2Fsocal-best-sellers.jpg" height="2000" width="3000"> <media:title>SoCal-Weekly-Bestsellers-Lede.jpeg</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Katya Apekina's 'Mother Doll' isn't your ordinary ghost story</title><dc:creator>Jim Ruland</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 10:00:23 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-12/mother-doll-katya-apekina-ghost-story</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-12/mother-doll-katya-apekina-ghost-story</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Katya Apekina's interest in the supernatural informs her new novel, 'Mother Doll,' a wild multigenerational story set both in modern-day Los Angeles and in Petrograd during the Russian Revolution.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Katya Apekina's interest in the supernatural informs her new novel, 'Mother Doll,' a wild multigenerational story set both in modern-day Los Angeles and in Petrograd during the Russian Revolution.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Russell Banks found the elusive heart of Trumpism in a fictional New York town</title><dc:creator>Mark Athitakis</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2024 10:00:50 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-11/russell-banks-american-spirits-review</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-11/russell-banks-american-spirits-review</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>In 'American Spirits,' the late author Russell Banks returns to rural New York to explore the ego, territorialism and violence that define our society. </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 'American Spirits,' the late author Russell Banks returns to rural New York to explore the ego, territorialism and violence that define our society. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Summoning mothers to their power to fight climate change and inequality</title><dc:creator>Lorraine Berry</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2024 10:00:38 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-11/emily-raboteau-lessons-for-survival-climate-change</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-11/emily-raboteau-lessons-for-survival-climate-change</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>In Emily Raboteau's book of essays, 'Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "the Apocalypse,"' her care for her neighborhood and her maternal care for her children are connected as she faces an uncertain climate future.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Emily Raboteau's book of essays, 'Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "the Apocalypse,"' her care for her neighborhood and her maternal care for her children are connected as she faces an uncertain climate future.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The week's bestselling books, March 10</title><dc:creator>The California Independent Booksellers Alliance</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 6 Mar 2024 14:00:50 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-06/the-weeks-bestselling-books-march-10</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-06/the-weeks-bestselling-books-march-10</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 10, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 10, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4bcb069/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x2000+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F89%2F93%2F2cd3225e4f578d8a9473f7e8f5ed%2Fsocal-best-sellers.jpg" height="2000" width="3000"> <media:title>SoCal-Weekly-Bestsellers-Lede.jpeg</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>4 must-read books on birding (and 2 bonus picks)</title><dc:creator>Heller McAlpin</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 6 Mar 2024 11:00:08 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-06/best-birding-books</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-06/best-birding-books</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Four years after people took up bird-watching during the pandemic, there's a spate of new books about birding capitalizing on this heightened interest.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Four years after people took up bird-watching during the pandemic, there's a spate of new books about birding capitalizing on this heightened interest.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/421bce2/2147483647/strip/false/crop/2500x1852+0+0/resize/1500x1111!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fde%2Fe8%2F11693a6444ce9233e9fc39b87a29%2F001500-so-0203-2-gf.jpg" height="1852" width="2500"> <media:title>001500.SO.0203.2.GF \x96\x96 Dan Cooper, 26, is a biologist for the</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[001500.SO.0203.2.GF -- Dan Cooper, 26, is a biologist for the audubon society, who goes out birding on lunch hours, etc. Story is also about the renaissance of birding, and why L.A. is unique spot for birds--a literal crossroads for a million different species who are flying north or south for the winter and who stop here. This is one of the birds he spotted while he is looking for birds at Ernest Debs Regional Park in Highland Park on 2/3/00.]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson aren't just acclaimed writers. They're distant relatives</title><dc:creator>Alexandra Del Rosario</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 4 Mar 2024 17:39:45 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2024-03-04/taylor-swift-emily-dickinson-ancestry-tortured-poets-society</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2024-03-04/taylor-swift-emily-dickinson-ancestry-tortured-poets-society</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>It seems Taylor Swift's knack for writing runs blood deep. Ancestry.com revealed that the 'Karma' singer shares roots with 19th century poet Emily Dickinson. </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It seems Taylor Swift's knack for writing runs blood deep. Ancestry.com revealed that the 'Karma' singer shares roots with 19th century poet Emily Dickinson. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Opinion: How did a Moroccan pirate queen become the 'Spirit of California'?</title><dc:creator>Valorie Castellanos Clark</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 2 Mar 2024 08:01:32 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-02/california-name-history-calafia-al-hurra</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-02/california-name-history-calafia-al-hurra</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The degradation of two powerful, independent Muslim women — one historical, one fictional — echoes 500 years later in the name of our state.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The degradation of two powerful, independent Muslim women — one historical, one fictional — echoes 500 years later in the name of our state.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>10 books to add to your reading list in March</title><dc:creator>Bethanne Patrick</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 1 Mar 2024 11:02:40 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-01/books-to-read-march-2024-reading-list-spring</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-03-01/books-to-read-march-2024-reading-list-spring</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Books to read in March include "James" by Percival Everett, "Wandering Stars" by Tommy Orange and "Age of Revolutions" by Fareed Zakaria.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Books to read in March include "James" by Percival Everett, "Wandering Stars" by Tommy Orange and "Age of Revolutions" by Fareed Zakaria.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/6c5aae6/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1800x1203+0+0/resize/1500x1003!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fda%2F2f%2Fde9e095e42dfa10d2c233549a3c0%2Fbest-books-feb23-2024-purple.jpg" height="1203" width="1800"> <media:title>best-books-feb23-2024_purple.jpg</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Photos by Ecco; Norton; FSG; Henry Holt; Dey Street; Knopf; Graywolf; Doubleday]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Are TikTok and Instagram dulling your taste?</title><dc:creator>Matt Pearce</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 11:00:15 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-29/tiktok-instagram-algorithms-filterworld-kyle-chayka</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-29/tiktok-instagram-algorithms-filterworld-kyle-chayka</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>In his new book 'Filterworld,' New Yorker writer Kyle Chayka argues that algorithmic curation dulls our creative agency.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In his new book 'Filterworld,' New Yorker writer Kyle Chayka argues that algorithmic curation dulls our creative agency.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>What Dennis Rodman, Kate Moss and a 5,000-year-old Alpine iceman have in common</title><dc:creator>Margot Mifflin</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:12:06 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-28/tattoo-history-dennis-rodman-kate-moss-painted-people-matt-lodder</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-28/tattoo-history-dennis-rodman-kate-moss-painted-people-matt-lodder</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Matt Lodder's "Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings" is a lively exploration of an underexamined art.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Matt Lodder's "Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings" is a lively exploration of an underexamined art.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The week's bestselling books, March 3</title><dc:creator>The California Independent Booksellers Alliance</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:00:07 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-28/the-weeks-bestselling-books-march-3</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-28/the-weeks-bestselling-books-march-3</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 3, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 3, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4bcb069/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x2000+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F89%2F93%2F2cd3225e4f578d8a9473f7e8f5ed%2Fsocal-best-sellers.jpg" height="2000" width="3000"> <media:title>SoCal-Weekly-Bestsellers-Lede.jpeg</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Tommy Orange was against revisiting Native American history in his new book. Why he changed his mind</title><dc:creator>Carolyn Kellogg</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 23:16:26 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-27/tommy-orange-there-there-sequel-new-book-wandering-stars</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-27/tommy-orange-there-there-sequel-new-book-wandering-stars</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Tommy Orange's much-anticipated new book, 'Wandering Stars,' serves as both a prequel and a sequel to 'There There.'</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tommy Orange's much-anticipated new book, 'Wandering Stars,' serves as both a prequel and a sequel to 'There There.'</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Espionage fiction writers pick their favorite fictional spies </title><dc:creator>Paula L. Woods</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:43:53 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-27/best-fictional-spies</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-27/best-fictional-spies</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Three writers of recent espionage fiction, Terry Hayes, Lea Carpenter and David Downing, turn their keen powers of observation on 1950s Los Angeles, current-day Europe and beyond to shed light on their times — and, chillingly, ours.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Three writers of recent espionage fiction, Terry Hayes, Lea Carpenter and David Downing, turn their keen powers of observation on 1950s Los Angeles, current-day Europe and beyond to shed light on their times — and, chillingly, ours.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Nearing 80, she can no longer afford to own Arcadia's Book Rack — or live in California</title><dc:creator>Marisa Gerber</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 11:00:30 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-02-26/she-poured-her-heart-into-arcadias-book-rack-now-the-small-bookstore-is-closing</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-02-26/she-poured-her-heart-into-arcadias-book-rack-now-the-small-bookstore-is-closing</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Book Rack is the second San Gabriel Valley bookstore to face a reckoning this year. The owner of Vroman's in Pasadena put the store up for sale because he wants to retire.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Book Rack is the second San Gabriel Valley bookstore to face a reckoning this year. The owner of Vroman's in Pasadena put the store up for sale because he wants to retire.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d5fda83/2147483647/strip/false/crop/8192x5464+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F14%2F76%2F0f79cac24e259927006d8c06a864%2F1410257-fi-bookstore-closing-retirement-64.jpg" height="5464" width="8192"> <media:title>1410257-fi-bookstore-closing-retirement-64.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Arcadia, CA - February 14: Karen Kropp locates books for a customer at The Book Rack, a bookstore she has owned for nearly two decades, on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024 in Arcadia, CA. At the end of the month she is closing the bookstore doors and moving to Albuquerque with family. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[First Name Last Name/Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Opinion: A call can come at any moment. It's teaching me the importance of 'one day at a time' </title><dc:creator>David L. Ulin</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2024 11:00:31 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-24/aging-healthcare-story-literature-lorrie-moore</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-24/aging-healthcare-story-literature-lorrie-moore</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>I am my parents' long-distance helper now. Like a character in a Lorrie Moore story, I have to live by bromides. </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am my parents' long-distance helper now. Like a character in a Lorrie Moore story, I have to live by bromides. </p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4fb62dd/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1620x1080+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3e%2F7a%2F31730cbb44b988e0b5ed98e4b1fc%2Fla-oe-ulin-caregiving-promo.jpg" height="1080" width="1620"> <media:title>la-oe-ulin-caregiving-promo.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[A call can come at any moment. It's teaching me the importance of 'one day at a time']]></media:description> </media:content></item><item><title>'Today' co-anchor Savannah Guthrie puts her faith on the line in a new book</title><dc:creator>Stephen Battaglio</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 11:00:15 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-02-23/today-co-anchor-savanna-guthrie-puts-her-faith-in-a-new-book</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-02-23/today-co-anchor-savanna-guthrie-puts-her-faith-in-a-new-book</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Guthrie is now a bestselling author with "Mostly What God Does," a manual for people on how to use faith in their everyday lives.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Guthrie is now a bestselling author with "Mostly What God Does," a manual for people on how to use faith in their everyday lives.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The week's bestselling books, Feb. 25</title><dc:creator>The California Independent Booksellers Alliance</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:00:24 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-21/the-weeks-bestselling-books-feb-25</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-21/the-weeks-bestselling-books-feb-25</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4bcb069/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x2000+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F89%2F93%2F2cd3225e4f578d8a9473f7e8f5ed%2Fsocal-best-sellers.jpg" height="2000" width="3000"> <media:title>SoCal-Weekly-Bestsellers-Lede.jpeg</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Raja Shehadeh, Yiyun Li and Maria Bamford among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists</title><dc:creator>Jessica Gelt</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 13:00:41 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-21/l-a-times-book-prize-finalists-2023</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-21/l-a-times-book-prize-finalists-2023</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The L.A. Times Book Prizes honor 66 works in 13 categories celebrating exceptional writing from authors at all stages of their careers.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The L.A. Times Book Prizes honor 66 works in 13 categories celebrating exceptional writing from authors at all stages of their careers.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Eric Klinenberg wants you to reexamine the impact of the pandemic: 'We are all living through the long 2020'</title><dc:creator>Stuart Miller</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 21:50:41 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-20/eric-klinenberg-2020-one-city-seven-people-and-the-year-everything-changed</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-20/eric-klinenberg-2020-one-city-seven-people-and-the-year-everything-changed</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Author Eric Klinenberg doesn't just want you to recall 2020 — the pandemic with its lockdown and rising death toll, the attempt at a racial reckoning after George Floyd's murder and the presidential election where the loser refused to accept reality — he wants you to reexamine it.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Author Eric Klinenberg doesn't just want you to recall 2020 — the pandemic with its lockdown and rising death toll, the attempt at a racial reckoning after George Floyd's murder and the presidential election where the loser refused to accept reality — he wants you to reexamine it.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Op-Comic: 3,362 book bans? What year is this, anyway?</title><dc:creator>Bryn Durgin and Navied Mahdavian</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 11:00:10 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-20/op-comic-school-library-banned-books-kurt-vonnegut</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-20/op-comic-school-library-banned-books-kurt-vonnegut</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Maybe you too feel 'unstuck in time' like a Vonnegut character. If you went to school somewhere where Vonnegut wasn't banned.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe you too feel 'unstuck in time' like a Vonnegut character. If you went to school somewhere where Vonnegut wasn't banned.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a9f2d10/2147483647/strip/false/crop/2717x2443+0+0/resize/1500x1349!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fd0%2F45%2F0be6ae2e40afbb7c4930e7e2d298%2Fvonnegut-banned-book-la-times-image-1.jpg" height="2443" width="2717"> <media:title>la-oe-240220-mahdavian-banned-books-1.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[02/20/24 Navied Mahdavian and Bryn Durgin op-comic on book bans, Vonnegut and a banned-book club. 1 of 6]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Navied Mahdavian / For The Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Opinion: Single mothers like me are easy scapegoats. But the case for marriage is a myth</title><dc:creator>Lyz Lenz</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 11:05:12 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-16/single-motherhood-parenting-marriage-poverty</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-16/single-motherhood-parenting-marriage-poverty</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Almost half of Americans think single mothers are bad for society. We're being blamed for problems we didn't create. </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Almost half of Americans think single mothers are bad for society. We're being blamed for problems we didn't create. </p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9a25776/2147483647/strip/false/crop/4785x3191+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F69%2F64%2F19c314824267af80818e16dc1dc0%2Fla-photos-1staff-883947-me-two-children-shot-in-wilmington-04-1-cmc.jpg" height="3191" width="4785"> <media:title>la-photos-1staff-883947-me-two-children-shot-in-wilmington-04-1-cmc.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Wilmington, Los Angeles, California-Dec. 7, 2021-A woman walks with two young children along the playground at Wilmington Park Elementary on Dec. 7, 2021, where a 9-year-old girl was hit by a stray bullet yesterday afternoon, Dec. 6, 2021. A 13-year-old boy was killed and two other people were injured, including a 9-year-old girl, in a shooting in Wilmington late Monday afternoon. A 9-year-old girl playing nearby at Wilmington Park Elementary School was hit by a stray bullet, prompting a separate 911 call. She was hospitalized in critical condition. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times/Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Life is 'Plastic' in Scott Guild's novel and companion album</title><dc:creator>Stuart Miller</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:43:40 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-15/scott-guild-plastic-book-album</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-15/scott-guild-plastic-book-album</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Scott Guild's debut novel (and companion album) 'Plastic' is a dark and entertaining saga about a postapocalyptic world populated by plastic figurines.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Scott Guild's debut novel (and companion album) 'Plastic' is a dark and entertaining saga about a postapocalyptic world populated by plastic figurines.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Philip Marlowe perfume, anyone? Raymond Chandler's estate revives its hero, for better or worse</title><dc:creator>Nate Rogers</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:32:37 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-15/philip-marlowe-raymond-chandler-estate</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-15/philip-marlowe-raymond-chandler-estate</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The late, great Raymond Chandler and his private eye live on as potential IP for new books, video games, TV projects, graphic novels and more. </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The late, great Raymond Chandler and his private eye live on as potential IP for new books, video games, TV projects, graphic novels and more. </p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9192e5a/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x2000+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F56%2F45%2Fb54f09ea40a49ccd56de0e541794%2Fraymond-chandler-digital.jpg" height="2000" width="3000"> <media:title>Are you ready for Marlowe cologne? The Raymond Chandler estate hits the accelerator</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Paul Rogers / For The Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Korean bookstores in L.A. are dying. Here's how one survives</title><dc:creator>Ashley Ahn</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:00:33 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-15/korean-bookstores-are-dying-heres-how-one-survives</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-15/korean-bookstores-are-dying-heres-how-one-survives</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Customers range from parents hoping to pass the language to the next generation to local Korean church members to non-Koreans trying to learn Korean.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Customers range from parents hoping to pass the language to the next generation to local Korean church members to non-Koreans trying to learn Korean.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/dd3ce52/2147483647/strip/false/crop/5472x3648+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5a%2F2a%2Fd0596958454badf92ab054f319c7%2F1404609-me-oc-last-korean-bookstore-mdb-bookstore01.jpg" height="3648" width="5472"> <media:title>1404609-me-oc-last-korean-bookstore-mdb-bookstore01.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[La Mirada, CA - February 2: Joe Choi, 33, prepares to purchase his book at the Alladin Fullerton bookstore on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024 in La Mirada, CA. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Michael Blackshire/Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Why 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' is the 'truest portrait of love in marriage'</title><dc:creator>Chris Vognar</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:00:32 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-14/cocktails-with-george-and-martha-philip-gefter-virginia-woolf-elizabeth-taylor</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-14/cocktails-with-george-and-martha-philip-gefter-virginia-woolf-elizabeth-taylor</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>'Cocktails With George and Martha' examines what it means to live as husband and wife, and how 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' kicked down staid cultural depictions of marriage.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>'Cocktails With George and Martha' examines what it means to live as husband and wife, and how 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' kicked down staid cultural depictions of marriage.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The week's bestselling books, Feb. 18</title><dc:creator>The California Independent Booksellers Alliance</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:00:16 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-14/the-weeks-bestselling-books-feb-18</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-14/the-weeks-bestselling-books-feb-18</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4bcb069/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x2000+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F89%2F93%2F2cd3225e4f578d8a9473f7e8f5ed%2Fsocal-best-sellers.jpg" height="2000" width="3000"> <media:title>SoCal-Weekly-Bestsellers-Lede.jpeg</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>China, opium and racial capitalism: Amitav Ghosh on the roots of a deadly business </title><dc:creator>Arun A.K.</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:35:22 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-12/q-a-amitav-ghosh-smoke-and-ashes</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-12/q-a-amitav-ghosh-smoke-and-ashes</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>In 'Smoke and Ashes,' Amitav Ghosh draws comparisons between America's modern opioid crisis and the West's flooding of China with opium in the 18th century. </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 'Smoke and Ashes,' Amitav Ghosh draws comparisons between America's modern opioid crisis and the West's flooding of China with opium in the 18th century. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Hollywood Behaving Badly, Chapter 47: Ed Zwick explains why his new book spills so much tea</title><dc:creator>Chris Vognar</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:08:41 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-12/ed-zwick-book-harvey-weinstein-julia-roberts-matthew-broderick</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-12/ed-zwick-book-harvey-weinstein-julia-roberts-matthew-broderick</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Have you heard the anecdote about Harvey Weinstein? Or Julia Roberts? Or Matthew Broderick's mother? Director Ed Zwick explains why he goes there in 'Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions.'</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you heard the anecdote about Harvey Weinstein? Or Julia Roberts? Or Matthew Broderick's mother? Director Ed Zwick explains why he goes there in 'Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions.'</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b97cf51/2147483647/strip/false/crop/7430x4956+0+0/resize/1500x1001!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fcc%2Fd7%2Ff895e0b0421e84297cade99b1b5f%2F1403136-hits-flops-and-other-illusions-ed-zwick-294.jpg" height="4956" width="7430"> <media:title>1403136-hits-flops-and-other-illusions-ed-zwick-294.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Filmmaker Ed Zwick, author of a new memoir, "Hits, Flops and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood," photographed in his Los Angeles production office.]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>It's funny and cringey, but Andrew Ewell's debut novel doesn't live up to its potential</title><dc:creator>Stuart Miller</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 9 Feb 2024 16:00:10 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-09/andrew-ewell-set-for-life-review</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-09/andrew-ewell-set-for-life-review</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Andrew Ewell's debut novel 'Set for Life' is well-written but doesn't fulfill its potential.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Andrew Ewell's debut novel 'Set for Life' is well-written but doesn't fulfill its potential.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>In 'One Day,' a new Emma and Dexter bring angst and yearning (again and again)</title><dc:creator>Yvonne Villarreal</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 9 Feb 2024 11:00:30 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-02-09/one-day-netflix-ambika-mod-leo-woodall</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-02-09/one-day-netflix-ambika-mod-leo-woodall</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall, the stars of Netflix's "One Day," discuss the latest adaptation of David Nicholls' book, their chemistry and how things end for their characters, Emma and Dexter.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall, the stars of Netflix's "One Day," discuss the latest adaptation of David Nicholls' book, their chemistry and how things end for their characters, Emma and Dexter.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>This alternate version of America's story is an audacious work of the imagination</title><dc:creator>Mary Ann Gwinn</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 8 Feb 2024 16:00:27 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-08/cahokia-jazz-francis-spuffords-review</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-08/cahokia-jazz-francis-spuffords-review</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>With 'Cahokia Jazz,' Francis Spufford tells an intricate, suspenseful and moving story that rises from the mists of America's prehistory and morphs into an alternate version of America's story. </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With 'Cahokia Jazz,' Francis Spufford tells an intricate, suspenseful and moving story that rises from the mists of America's prehistory and morphs into an alternate version of America's story. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Resisting sentimentality, Laird Hunt's latest book is an elegy for a lost generation</title><dc:creator>Kate Tuttle</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 7 Feb 2024 17:33:54 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-07/laird-hunt-new-book-float-up-sing-down-review</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-07/laird-hunt-new-book-float-up-sing-down-review</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Without even the slightest sentimentality about it, Laird Hunt's new book, 'Float Up, Sing Down,' provides an elegy for a lost generation.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Without even the slightest sentimentality about it, Laird Hunt's new book, 'Float Up, Sing Down,' provides an elegy for a lost generation.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The week's bestselling books, Feb. 11</title><dc:creator>The California Independent Booksellers Alliance</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 7 Feb 2024 14:00:38 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-07/the-weeks-bestselling-books-feb-11</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-07/the-weeks-bestselling-books-feb-11</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4bcb069/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x2000+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F89%2F93%2F2cd3225e4f578d8a9473f7e8f5ed%2Fsocal-best-sellers.jpg" height="2000" width="3000"> <media:title>SoCal-Weekly-Bestsellers-Lede.jpeg</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>In the dark days of the pandemic, 36 famous authors found light in a collaborative novel</title><dc:creator>Bethanne Patrick</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 6 Feb 2024 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-06/fourteen-days-collaborative-novel-authors-guild-margaret-atwood-douglas-preston</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-06/fourteen-days-collaborative-novel-authors-guild-margaret-atwood-douglas-preston</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>In 'Fourteen Days,' the Authors Guild shows off its storytellers, including Dave Eggers, Celeste Ng, Scott Turow, Mira Jacob, Tommy Orange, Tess Gerritsen, R. L. Stine, Weike Wang and Ishmael Reed.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 'Fourteen Days,' the Authors Guild shows off its storytellers, including Dave Eggers, Celeste Ng, Scott Turow, Mira Jacob, Tommy Orange, Tess Gerritsen, R. L. Stine, Weike Wang and Ishmael Reed.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Column: For years, the Reagans' daughter regretted some things she wrote. Now she's at peace</title><dc:creator>Mary McNamara</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 6 Feb 2024 11:00:51 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-06/patti-davis-ronald-reagan-nancy-reagan-dear-mom-and-dad</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-06/patti-davis-ronald-reagan-nancy-reagan-dear-mom-and-dad</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Patti Davis has spent a lifetime chronicling her life with parents Ronald and Nancy Reagan. In a new book, 'Dear Mom and Dad,' she reckons with them as people, not parents.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Patti Davis has spent a lifetime chronicling her life with parents Ronald and Nancy Reagan. In a new book, 'Dear Mom and Dad,' she reckons with them as people, not parents.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/67df8f1/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3600x2400+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa7%2F8a%2F731a9f7d42bebb89fd9bf3bb95a0%2F1399414-et-dear-mom-and-dad-patti-davis-4-brv.jpg" height="2400" width="3600"> <media:title>1399414-et-dear-mom-and-dad-patti-davis-4-brv.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Santa Monica, CA - January 18: Patti Davis sits for a portrait with her pug, Lily, at her home on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024 in Santa Monica, CA. Davis, an author, former rebel and sometimes-outspoken opponent of the policies put forth by her own father - President Ronald Reagan - has a new memoir out, "Dear Mom and Dad," that covers her complicated relationship with her powerful, famous family. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Sheila Heti recounts the ABCs of her evolution in new book of diary entries</title><dc:creator>Lynn Steger Strong</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 5 Feb 2024 17:00:02 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-05/sheila-heti-new-book-alphabetical-diaries</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-05/sheila-heti-new-book-alphabetical-diaries</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>In 'Alphabetical Diaries,' Sheila Heti has once again tried something that feels impossible: collecting her personal diary entries for more than 10 years, re-ordering the sentences in alphabetical order, to build a different form of narrative.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 'Alphabetical Diaries,' Sheila Heti has once again tried something that feels impossible: collecting her personal diary entries for more than 10 years, re-ordering the sentences in alphabetical order, to build a different form of narrative.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Freed from conservative Singapore, a queer writer finds complicated truths of 'Monster Island'</title><dc:creator>Ilana Masad</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 5 Feb 2024 13:00:33 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-05/tania-de-rozario-dinner-on-monster-island-review</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-05/tania-de-rozario-dinner-on-monster-island-review</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Subjected to a seven-hour exorcism by her mother, writer Tania De Rozario discovers that some of the villains in her life were in fact victims themselves.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Subjected to a seven-hour exorcism by her mother, writer Tania De Rozario discovers that some of the villains in her life were in fact victims themselves.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Author Gabe Hudson's cause of death revealed</title><dc:creator>Wendy Lee</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 4 Feb 2024 21:51:56 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-02-04/author-gabe-hudson-death-cause</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-02-04/author-gabe-hudson-death-cause</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Author Gabe Hudson died on Nov. 23 from complications from diabetes, according to his death certificate. He wrote the 2002 collection "Dear Mr. President" and a 2017 novel "Gork, the Teenage Dragon." </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Author Gabe Hudson died on Nov. 23 from complications from diabetes, according to his death certificate. He wrote the 2002 collection "Dear Mr. President" and a 2017 novel "Gork, the Teenage Dragon." </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Don't bring a moral argument to a gunfight, Jonathan Metzl tells liberals in new book</title><dc:creator>Stuart Miller</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 2 Feb 2024 21:38:13 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-02/gun-violence-what-weve-become-jonathan-metzl</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-02/gun-violence-what-weve-become-jonathan-metzl</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Jonathan Metzl's 'What We've Become' explores the attitudes surrounding gun ownership and violence, and where public health policy proponents may have fallen short.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jonathan Metzl's 'What We've Become' explores the attitudes surrounding gun ownership and violence, and where public health policy proponents may have fallen short.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>How many people die each year in jails and prisons? No one knows</title><dc:creator>Keri Blakinger</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 2 Feb 2024 20:19:44 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-02/death-in-custody-interview</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-02/death-in-custody-interview</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>As Jay D. Aronson and Dr. Roger A. Mitchell explore in their recent book 'Death in Custody,' that lack of data is a national problem.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As Jay D. Aronson and Dr. Roger A. Mitchell explore in their recent book 'Death in Custody,' that lack of data is a national problem.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A De Los series exploring Latinidad through poetry</title><dc:creator>Jessica Perez</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 1 Feb 2024 18:25:10 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2024-02-01/de-los-latino-poetry-series-gallery</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2024-02-01/de-los-latino-poetry-series-gallery</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The illustrated poetry series will feature new works by Latino poets in Los Angeles and across the U.S. </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The illustrated poetry series will feature new works by Latino poets in Los Angeles and across the U.S. </p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/png" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9f3c45b/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1080x1350+0+0/resize/1080x1350!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F53%2Ff2%2F55fd5c43473caef0dc021c786b27%2Fpoetryleadfinal.png" height="1350" width="1080"> <media:title>PoetryLeadFinal.png</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Diana Ramiez/De Los]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>These poets define what love and Latinidad mean to them</title><dc:creator>Melania Luisa Marte</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 1 Feb 2024 18:24:02 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2024-02-01/latino-poetry-series-melania-luisa-marte-love</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2024-02-01/latino-poetry-series-melania-luisa-marte-love</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Melania Luisa Marte curates the De Los Latino poetry series, where poets define what love means for those with complicated histories of immigration, assimilation and survival.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Melania Luisa Marte curates the De Los Latino poetry series, where poets define what love means for those with complicated histories of immigration, assimilation and survival.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d1b8b9a/2147483647/strip/false/crop/921x1151+0+0/resize/921x1151!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F29%2Fc6%2Fb15c42814d6cbb8444609b5cd77e%2Fde-los-poetry-series-yaissa-jimenez.jpg" height="1151" width="921"> <media:title>de-los-poetry-series-Yaissa-Jiménez.jpg</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[María Jesús Contreras / For De Los]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>A father goes missing. Then a brother too. In this 'Great Forest,' a fraught return home</title><dc:creator>Mark Athitakis</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:43:16 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-31/leo-vardiashvili-hard-by-a-great-forest-review</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-31/leo-vardiashvili-hard-by-a-great-forest-review</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The debut novel from Leo Vardiashvili, 'Hard by a Great Forest,' has its commercial trappings but ultimately lands with lyrical and heartbreaking resonance.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The debut novel from Leo Vardiashvili, 'Hard by a Great Forest,' has its commercial trappings but ultimately lands with lyrical and heartbreaking resonance.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Abcarian: Want a good book? Try one your 9th grader isn't allowed to read </title><dc:creator>Robin Abcarian</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:41:49 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-01-31/book-bans-censorship-school-libraries-burbank-idaho</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-01-31/book-bans-censorship-school-libraries-burbank-idaho</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The right-wing hysteria over books with sexual, violent or racial themes is ridiculous. Not that the left, even in California, is entirely innocent </p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The right-wing hysteria over books with sexual, violent or racial themes is ridiculous. Not that the left, even in California, is entirely innocent </p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/61756ef/2147483647/strip/false/crop/6720x4480+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F56%2Ff9%2F2d7db43246aebd69da903cd68df3%2F1280428-na-book-ban-censorship-34-cmc.jpg" height="4480" width="6720"> <media:title>1280428-na-book-ban-censorship-34-cmc.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Orlando, Florida-April 11, 2023-These three books are some that have been banned in some counties in the state of Florida. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times/Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The week's bestselling books, Feb. 4</title><dc:creator>The California Independent Booksellers Alliance</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:00:44 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-31/the-weeks-bestselling-books-feb-4</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-31/the-weeks-bestselling-books-feb-4</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4bcb069/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x2000+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F89%2F93%2F2cd3225e4f578d8a9473f7e8f5ed%2Fsocal-best-sellers.jpg" height="2000" width="3000"> <media:title>SoCal-Weekly-Bestsellers-Lede.jpeg</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Kiley Reid's 'Come and Get It' isn't just about race, it's about money</title><dc:creator>Stuart Miller</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:36:45 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-30/review-kiley-reid-come-and-get-it</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-30/review-kiley-reid-come-and-get-it</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>In 'Come and Get It,' author Kiley Reid unpacks the unsettling dynamics of college campus capitalism.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 'Come and Get It,' author Kiley Reid unpacks the unsettling dynamics of college campus capitalism.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>With Mindy Kaling in her corner, author Amina Akhtar sets out to shake rather than strangle stereotypes</title><dc:creator>Sibani Ram</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2024 11:00:44 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-30/almost-surely-dead-amina-akhtar-mindy-kaling</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-30/almost-surely-dead-amina-akhtar-mindy-kaling</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Amina Akhtar's third novel, 'Almost Surely Dead' — the next book from Mindy Kaling's Amazon imprint — is part supernatural thriller, part social commentary, part family saga.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amina Akhtar's third novel, 'Almost Surely Dead' — the next book from Mindy Kaling's Amazon imprint — is part supernatural thriller, part social commentary, part family saga.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Author of new book on Ukraine's Zelensky says Russian invasion turned him into 'this bulldog' </title><dc:creator>Stuart Miller</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2024 11:00:04 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-29/zelensky-book-ukraine-russia-war</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-29/zelensky-book-ukraine-russia-war</guid><description><![CDATA[<p> Journalist Simon Shuster's new book, 'The Showman,' says the former actor's specialty in improv helped Zelensky reshape his role as president.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Journalist Simon Shuster's new book, 'The Showman,' says the former actor's specialty in improv helped Zelensky reshape his role as president.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>In 'Expats,' Lulu Wang centers not only the lives of women but a changing Hong Kong</title><dc:creator>Jireh Deng</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:17:55 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-01-25/expats-lulu-wang-nicole-kidman-hong-kong</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-01-25/expats-lulu-wang-nicole-kidman-hong-kong</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Lulu Wang's "Expats," premiering Friday on Prime Video, is an adaptation of Janice Y. K. Lee's bestselling book that stars Nicole Kidman and examines the intersection of the lives of three women living in Hong Kong.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lulu Wang's "Expats," premiering Friday on Prime Video, is an adaptation of Janice Y. K. Lee's bestselling book that stars Nicole Kidman and examines the intersection of the lives of three women living in Hong Kong.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/91983c2/2147483647/strip/false/crop/6631x4427+0+0/resize/1500x1001!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fd2%2F7b%2Fe8056bf04ff399122137279e424e%2F1385066-et-0103-lulu-wang-cmh-06.jpg" height="4427" width="6631"> <media:title>1385066-et-0103-lulu-wang-cmh-06.jpg</media:title> <media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[WEST HOLLYWOOD-CA-JANUARY 3, 2024: Lulu Wang, director of "Expats," is photographed at The London Hotel in West Hollywood on January 3, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)]]></media:description> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Christina House/Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>4 chilling debut thrillers to get you through the winter</title><dc:creator>Paula L. Woods</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:00:39 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-25/4-chilling-debut-thrillers-to-get-you-through-the-winter</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-25/4-chilling-debut-thrillers-to-get-you-through-the-winter</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Spring will be all about the heavy hitters. But this winter brings 4 blazing thrillers well worth your time — from a medical mystery to a racial reckoning.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spring will be all about the heavy hitters. But this winter brings 4 blazing thrillers well worth your time — from a medical mystery to a racial reckoning.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The week's bestselling books, Jan. 28</title><dc:creator>The California Independent Booksellers Alliance</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 11:00:48 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-24/the-weeks-bestselling-books-jan-28</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-24/the-weeks-bestselling-books-jan-28</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, January 28, 2024.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, January 28, 2024.</p>]]></content:encoded><media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4bcb069/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x2000+0+0/resize/1500x1000!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F89%2F93%2F2cd3225e4f578d8a9473f7e8f5ed%2Fsocal-best-sellers.jpg" height="2000" width="3000"> <media:title>SoCal-Weekly-Bestsellers-Lede.jpeg</media:title> <media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>An ironic Mexico-set adventure novel has its swashbuckling cake and mocks it too</title><dc:creator>Mark Athitakis</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:00:37 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-23/an-ironic-mexican-american-adventure-novel-has-its-swashbuckling-layer-cake-and-mocks-it-too</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-23/an-ironic-mexican-american-adventure-novel-has-its-swashbuckling-layer-cake-and-mocks-it-too</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Elizabeth Gonzales James' novel 'The Bullet Swallower' tracks the family lore of a Mexican actor — whipping up adventure and tweaking our thirst for violence.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Elizabeth Gonzales James' novel 'The Bullet Swallower' tracks the family lore of a Mexican actor — whipping up adventure and tweaking our thirst for violence.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Not every adoption story is a tragedy. That's why Laurie Frankel's new novel is a blast</title><dc:creator>Bethanne Patrick</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:00:22 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-23/not-every-adoption-story-is-a-tragedy-thats-why-laurie-frankels-new-novel-is-a-blast</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-23/not-every-adoption-story-is-a-tragedy-thats-why-laurie-frankels-new-novel-is-a-blast</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Laurie Frankel's new novel, 'Family Family,' stars a woman with controversial opinions and a blended family that would make Tolstoy and the Brady Bunch blush.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Laurie Frankel's new novel, 'Family Family,' stars a woman with controversial opinions and a blended family that would make Tolstoy and the Brady Bunch blush.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Go on, be a 'Martyr!' A brilliant debut novel rides the slippery slope of self-sacrifice</title><dc:creator>Mark Athitakis</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 11:00:10 GMT</pubDate> <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-22/go-on-be-a-martyr-a-brilliant-debut-novel-rides-the-slippery-slope-of-self-sacrifice</link> <guid>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-22/go-on-be-a-martyr-a-brilliant-debut-novel-rides-the-slippery-slope-of-self-sacrifice</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>In Kaveh Akbar's brilliant debut novel, 'Martyr!', an Iranian American man in addiction recovery becomes obsessed with the concept of martyrdom.</p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Kaveh Akbar's brilliant debut novel, 'Martyr!', an Iranian American man in addiction recovery becomes obsessed with the concept of martyrdom.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss> 
