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'Fiona and Jane,' Jean Chen Ho's collection of stories, pays homage to friendships complicated by displacement, sexuality and the passage of time.

Sampling chiles and rosé with an author whose influence in L.A. far exceeds his fame — though new novel "Shaky Town" might change that.

Tout le bonheur du monde Claire Lombardo n’avait pas 30 ans lorsqu’elle a publié son premier roman et on la compare déjà à Ann Patchett et à Jonathan Franzen. Comme ces deux monstres sacrés de la littérature américaine, cette jeune Américaine nous plonge dans l’histoire d’une famille, les Sorenson. Au cœur du roman, Marilyn et David, des parents profondément amoureux. Leur harmonie trouble leurs quatre filles qui se disent qu’un amour aussi parfait est absolument inatteign...

Novelist Charles Yu brings his "Interior Chinatown" to the L.A. Times Book Club on May 27.

Samanta Schweblin: ‘In fiction we try not to talk about technology’ Kathryn Bromwich Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1978, Samanta Schweblin is the author of three short story collections, and in 2010 was chosen by Granta as one of the best writers in Spanish under 35. Her debut novel, Fever Dream (2014, translated by Megan McDowell in 2017), won the Shirley Jackson award for best novella and was shortlisted for the Booker International prize. Schweblin’s second novel...

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Bynum, a finalist for the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prize in fiction, will appear April 19 on “This Moment in Fiction” with Patricia Lockwood and Lauren Oyler, with The Times’ writer Amy Kaufman moderating. RSVP for free at If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Exceptional, unique works of fiction can work as primers for themselves. “The Erlking,” the first story in “Likes�...

Aimee Bender In "The Butterfly Lampshade," 8-year old Francie lives with a single mother who is mentally ill. On the night her mother has a particularly dramatic psychotic break, Francie is set upon a long journey of a kind of self-preservation that we come to understand only as confronts disturbing and confounding events. She believes that a butterfly has emerged from a butterfly lampshade. A beetle from a kid’s drawing emerges in three-dimensional real life. Roses from the pattern on a cur...

Portland finds place on PEN America awards longlists; ‘Sharks in the Time of Saviors’ dominates Updated Dec 22, 2020; Facebook Share PEN America on Tuesday announced the “longlists” for its 2021 awards, making a debut novel with a Portland connection an oddsmakers’ favorite to take home a prize. Kawai Strong Washburn’s “Sharks in the Time of Saviors” made the list in three categories, the first time that’s ever happened. The novel, a mystical family epic that partly takes pl...

Ask Amy: Independent booksellers share their literary picks for the year Updated Dec 28, 2020; Facebook Share Dear Readers: Every year at Christmastime, I prompt readers to put “A Book on Every Bed.” The idea originally came from historian David McCullough. On the Christmas mornings of his youth, the very first thing he woke up to was a wrapped book at the base of his bed, left there by Santa. Working with my literacy partner, Children’s Reading Connection, this campaign has grown to inc...

Dear Readers: Every year at Christmastime, I prompt readers to put “A Book on Every Bed.” The idea originally came from historian David McCollough. On the Christmas mornings of his youth, the very first thing he woke up to was a wrapped book at the base of his bed, left there by Santa. Working with my literacy partner, Children’s Reading Connection, this campaign has grown to include schools, libraries and bookstores. This year is different. All of us — not just children â�...