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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” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, has all of the elements that appear in the rest of the book. Set at a f...

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 curtain can be picked up. Twenty years later, Francie is still trying to make sense of these incidents....

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 place in the Rose City, is in the running for the Jean Stein Book Award, the Hemingway Award for Debut...

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 include schools, libraries and bookstores. This year is different. All of us — not just children — ...

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 — need a good book on our beds. I’ve reached out to some of my favorite independent bookselle...