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All Things Considered hosts are asking their favorite writers about their favorite writers. Ailsa Chang talks with novelist Steph Cha about her favorite novel, "The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler.

Bookforum, the review journal founded in 1994, announced it is shutting down. For decades, it helped connect literature to the wider world.

Nearly a year after her death, writer Joan Didion's belongings went up for auction Wednesday. Buyers paid nearly $2 million collectively for a piece of her legacy.

In 'The Long Haul,' Ryan Prior recounts an unprecedented grass-roots effort to get the medical establishment to recognize a devastating shadow pandemic.

In “Blackwater Falls,” Ausma Zehanat Khan introduces a Muslim police detective bent on bringing justice to marginalized communities.

Hua Hsu found his best friend at UC Berkeley -- and lost him soon after. He talks about "Stay True," his new paean to friendship, music and identity.

Eduardo Halfon's latest novel, 'Cancíón,' spins the story of his grandfather's kidnapping into a metafictional puzzle and meditation on identity.

Tanarive Due, Naomi Hirahara and other local authors break down the South L.A. people and places that inspired the stories in a rich new anthology.

'Death Doesn't Forget,' the fourth novel in Ed Lin's Taipei Night Market series, casts a Chandler-esque eye on the social fabric of urban Taiwan.

Part of the joy of reading is the way it can disturb us.