Seichō Matsumoto (1909–1992), credited with popularizing detective fiction in Japan, published his first book, Points and Lines, in 1958. He went on to write 30 novels, only a handful of which are ...

For some agents jumping ship, the brokerage claws are coming out. A former Brown Harris Stevens agent is suing the firm over its attempts to clawback more than $400,000 it claims he owes after his ...

“Who needs the Pulitzers? Next year it’s the Tom Wolfes.” That was one guest’s parting words to another, after Tuesday night’s dinner for the inaugural Tom Wolfe Prizes for Fiction & Reportage at the ...

“What can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli.” — Amor Towles I was employed by the Laramie Parks and ...

The City of Lubbock has released the Lubbock Public Library Events for the week of August 4, featuring book clubs, storytimes, health workshops, knitting and crocheting, National Night Out, and senior ...

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Virginia Brooks Manbeck, eclectic world traveler and librarian extraordinaire, passed away July 19 at the age of 84 while reading a book by Amor Towles. She was a victim of an ...

Virginia Brooks Manbeck, eclectic world traveler and librarian extraordinaire, passed away July 19 at the age of 84 while reading a book by Amor Towles. She was victim of an invasive cancer that ...

This weekend, bibliophiles are trading pages for panels. On Saturday at the University of Southern California, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books kicked off its 30th year of delighting all types ...

At a Q&A moderated by Yvonne Villarreal of the Los Angeles Times, Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead chatted about adapting Amor Towles’ book, “A Gentleman in Moscow,” into a TV series. The ...

In his 2023 book The Art Thief, author Michael Finkel crucially observed (my book review here) that “art is the result of facing almost no survival pressure of all.” So true, and it raises an exciting ...

The star-studded cast of The New Group's upcoming production of Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class – David Anzuelo, Kyle Beltran, Calista Flockhart, Cooper Hoffman, Jeb Kreager, Stella Marcus ...