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- Sep 29, 2026
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Deesha Philyaw says freedom fuels ‘True Confessions of First Lady Freeman’ (opens the original)
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Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection, “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,” was rejected by major publishing houses before being picked up by West Virginia University Press. The book would go on to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Story Prize, an LA Times Book Prize for first fiction, and it was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. Now, Philyaw, who is developing her work for the screen and hosting two podcasts, returns with her long-awaited debut novel, “The Tr
‘Please Don’t Touch the Body’ author Emily Doyle hated zombies. Until now. (opens the original)
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Emily Doyle, who received her MFA from UC Riverside, is the Los Angeles-based author of the short story collection, “Please Don’t Touch the Body.” Q. What’s something about your book that no one knows? On its surface, “Please Don’t Touch the Body” is a book of short stories concerning what’s wonderful and horrifying about being a woman. But the secret way I think about this book is that it’s for the sickos who understand that womanhood is like starring in a movie that’s flickering unpredictably
Pasadena’s Vroman’s Bookstore and Book Soup have been sold (opens the original)
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Vroman’s and Book Soup have been sold, the bookstores announced today. More than two years after the Southern California institutions went up for sale, the stores announced that Pasadena native Robert Hoffman and his family will be taking over the organization. According to the release, Hoffman, who was raised in the San Gabriel Valley, is a fourth-generation Vroman’s shopper and a second-generation Book Soup one; the link going back more than 115 years to his great-grandmother, Georgia Bullock,
22 new books coming in October 2026 to add to your reading list (opens the original)
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In some long-ago October, I can vaguely recall a house that gave out books for Halloween one year instead of candy, a substitution only slightly better received than, say, a toothbrush or a single Brussels sprout. However, for me, I would have happily traded a few sleeves of Smarties or a stale Charleston Chew for the chance to stuff a good book into my pillowcase. “Just take one,” I imagine this ghoulishly literate parent saying as I reached into a bowl and pulled out a copy of “The Collected S
Brian Eno and Bette A. exhibit opens at Highland Park’s North Figueroa Bookshop (opens the original)
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Kicking off with an opening event on Saturday, Sept. 19, North Figueroa Bookshop in Highland Park and Unnamed Press are presenting “Slow Stories: Paintings by Bette A. and Brian Eno.” Featuring hundreds of artworks lining the walls of the bookstore, the exhibition includes 444 original signed and numbered paintings as well as listening stations to hear “2 Slow Stories,” which features Bette reading “The Endless House” and “The Other Village” and ambient compositions by Eno (who, you’ll remember,
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