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French novelist plans to file attempted-rape charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn
French writer Tristane Banon, a novelist and journalist, plans to file attempted-rape charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday, her...
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For the German people, unconditional surrender in spring 1945 meant the end of self-government for the foreseeable future. Gen. Dwight D....
Book review: 'Inside Scientology' by Janet Reitman
Small wonder that L. Ron Hubbard had the creative chops to parlay his 1950s self-help system, Dianetics, into a worldwide religion —...
Goodbye, Oxford comma? Hello, Shatner comma!
Rumors of the death of the Oxford comma have been greatly exaggerated. The Oxford comma, thought by some to be an annoying punctuation...
Rethinking Hemingway 50 years after his death
Boozy, boorish and self-besotted, the world-famous writer in Woody Allen's current hit film, "Midnight in Paris," is kind of a clown. And,...
Book review: 'Paris to the Past'
Southern California residents — and most Americans outside the Northeast corridor — can only envy the speed, comfort and ease of...
Book review: 'Bright's Passage'
Henry Bright endures. His mother raised him in a tiny cabin in West Virginia, eking out a marginal survival; when she died, he was left to...
Book review: 'The Deal From Hell' by James O'Shea
As longtime readers of this newspaper know all too well, few marriages have failed more spectacularly — or with greater impact —...
Bristol Palin! Advice for the new author! (Fewer exclamation points!)
Some children lead extraordinary lives because of their great intellectual gifts or performance in the face of adversity. Helen Keller and...
Book Review: 'The Ridge'
After just three novels in the Lincoln Perry series, Michael Koryta defied the dictates of serial crime fiction and took a purposeful walk...
Book review: 'Dead Reckoning'
God knows it's not easy being Sookie Stackhouse. The telepathic barmaid at the center of so many supernatural occurrences in the sleepy burg...
Pottermore: It's an interactive reading experience. But it's not online yet.
Pottermore launched at noon Thursday in England, and fans of Harry Potter swiftly crashed the site's email sign-up. The buzzed-about...
Critic's Notebook: Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' book app is a road trip and a map to the future
There's a certain poetic justice in the fact that "On the Road" is one of Apple's top-grossing book apps. Released on Saturday, the iPad app...
Book review: ' "There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me' by Eva Gabrielsson
To be a widow is tragic; to be a widow without portfolio is a nightmare. On Nov. 9, 2004, Swedish architect Eva Gabrielsson lost the man she...
Independent author John Locke joins Amazon's million-Kindle-seller club, but at what cost?
Kentucky-based independent author John Locke has joined big-name writers Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, Nora Roberts, Charlaine Harris, Lee...
Who is 'the gnat'? Levi Johnston, according to Bristol Palin's upcoming memoir
The Gnat is not a sidekick of the Green Lantern but rather Bristol Palin's ex, Levi Johnston. He makes an appearance, not surprisingly, in...
Book review: 'In the Garden of Beasts'
As the events leading up to World War II go, Franklin Roosevelt's 1933 appointment of a naïve history professor as ambassador to...
'Harry Potter' star Daniel Radcliffe on new J.K. Rowling project
J.K. Rowling, the author who brought Harry Potter to life, launched a mysterious website Thursday counting down the days before a big...
Simon Pegg will always be a fanboy at heart
Simon Pegg is as close as you can get to a real-life geek superhero; his special powers include a real affection for Comic-Con culture and...
Book review: 'The Reading Promise' by Alice Ozma
Alice Ozma's father read to her every night before bed for 3,218 days straight. "The Streak," as Ozma and her father, Jim Brozina, called...
Samuel L. Jackson reads 'Go the F --- to Sleep'
Writer Adam Mansbach's childrens book parody "Go the F--- to Sleep" is the gift that keeps giving. Digital galleys of the book, which was...
Downtown L.A.'s the Last Bookstore defies trends
Before launching a business, some people invest in market research and feasibility studies. Josh Spencer is not one of those people —...
Book Review: 'Fall Higher' by Dean Young
The poet's 13th collection doesn't lament our hectic contemporary culture -- it embraces it.
Book review: 'A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion' by Ron Hansen
On March 19, 1927, Ruth Snyder and her lover Henry Judd Gray murdered Ruth's husband, Albert Edward Snyder, in his bed in Queens Village,...
Book review: 'Fiasco' by Imre Kertész
In 1944, a 14-year-old boy, future novelist Imre Kertész, was rounded up while on an excursion in the countryside near Budapest and...
A summer's worth of French reading
In a handful of weeks, an important July holiday will finally be here. Not the 4th of July. Think more globally -- July 14, Bastille Day....
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