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By Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times
Cuban American Richard Blanco will not only be the first Latino poet to be so honored, but the first openly gay man to be selected as well.
By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic
"Big Sur" is coming to the screen, in an adaptation directed by Michael Polish and starring Jean-Marc Barr; it premieres at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah later this month.
By Carolyn Kellogg
The Swann Gallery in New York is holding a large auction of 20th century illustrations that features the works of Maurice Sendak.
By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic
There's a fundamental flaw in "Journalism Is Not Narcissism," the recent Gawker post deriding confessional nonfiction: The first-person essays he finds so self-indulgent are not journalism.
By Carolyn Kellogg
If you bought a copy of "Fifty Shades of Grey" for your e-reader, you are not alone -- not by a long shot.
By Jasmine Elist
The sun has risen on a new year, a time for (once the hangover has subsided) fulfilling all the resolutions we made.
By Carolyn Kellogg
We asked some smart bookish types if they have any particularly literary resolutions for 2013 — they've got some great ideas for kicking off the new year.
By Carolyn Kellogg
Who should you be reading in 2013? Memoirist Emily Rapp and short-story writer Jim Gavin, for starters.
By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic
The 1957 novel seems to be Kerouac's attempt to mythologize his band of friends so that they would escape time. The new movie overlooks this element.
By Hector Tobar
It's the day after Christmas and all through the house, so much wrapping paper is spilling and suffocating my spouse.
By Carolyn Kellogg
The Christmas tree is a fixture as familiar as it is ubiquitous; but how well do you know the Christmas tree?
Looking for a book to give as a present, or a book of your own to read? Here's our holiday gift guide of fiction, nonfiction, coffee table books and more.
By Louis Bayard
Though its well-regarded writer calls the book a novel, it's better to read it as a gallery of fictional portraits. That way, we can appreciate his skill.
By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic
'Spilt Milk' by Chico Buarque is about a Brazilian centenarian whose life echoes his country's.
By Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times
First-time novelist Ayana Mathis draws a one-dimensional portrait of a black woman's plight in the mid-1920s in 'The Twelve Tribes of Hattie.'
By Hector Tobar
The world is ending on Friday — according to a bunch of people who've misread the Maya calendar.
By Carolyn Kellogg
Penguin has settled with the Department of Justice in the e-book price-fixing case brought against Apple and five publishers this year.
By Carolyn Kellogg
When it comes to events like the recent school shooting in Newtown, Conn., there are knowns, unknowns and, already, mis-knowns.
By Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times
The author engagingly relates his experience in competitive yoga and with Bikram Choudhury.
By Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times
The Nobel laureate probably can't criticize his government outright, but his tale of corrupt capitalist communism in Slaughterhouse Village is zingy.
By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic
The best titles of the year marked a return to writing that takes the measure of the moment, with standout writers like Steve Erickson, Hari Kunzru and Zadie Smith.
By Hector Tobar
Those New Yorkers really have a problem with us Angelenos.
By Jasmine Elist
When writers Christina Lynch and Meg Howrey decided to collaborate on the new novel "City of Dark Magic," they chose a pseudonym as fantastical as the novel itself: Magnus Flyte.
By Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times
Maria Semple's 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' is among the year's best.
Joyce E. Chaplin explores 'Circumnavigation From Magellan to Orbit.'
By Carolyn Kellogg
Unavailable at night or on the weekends? Like a little workplace gossip? Then you need not apply at Dalkey Archive Press.