Michael Schaub
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 8
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- Sep 29, 2026
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You can’t scare Min Jin Lee: The author on how she wrote ‘American Hagwon’ (opens the original)
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Min Jin Lee’s third novel has been a long time coming. It’s been 19 years since the publication of her debut novel, “Free Food for Millionaires,” which received rave reviews from critics. Ten years later, she had a breakout hit with “Pachinko,” which was a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist, and adapted into an Apple TV+ series that ran for two seasons. “I’m writing social novels, and that always requires a deep analysis of economics and sociology,” Lee says via telephone
9/11 in memoriam: 20 books that address the September 11 terrorist attacks (opens the original)
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It’s been 25 years since the 9/11 attacks claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, sending the country into a state of shock that it has never fully recovered from. While it can be painful to relive the worst terrorist attack in the history of the world, readers can turn to books to discover what it was like to be on the frontlines of the attacks, how survivors have managed to move forward, and how life has changed in the aftermath. Here are
How a UCLA class inspired ex-NFL player Andre Hardy to write his debut novel (opens the original)
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Andre Hardy remembers exactly when he fell in love with reading. The former NFL player was in elementary school when his mother gave him $3.50 to buy “From Ghetto to Glory: The Story of Bob Gibson,” about the legendary pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. “I was immediately captured by the concept that he had gone to college for free on a scholarship, and then went to professional baseball, and he was able to buy his mom a house,” Hardy recalls. “No one in my home had ever been to college. At th
What led Allie Rowbottom to write her porn industry novel, ‘Lovers XXX’ (opens the original)
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Allie Rowbottom didn’t set out to write a book about porn. The Malibu-based author of the memoir “Jell-O Girls” and the novel “Aesthetica” had an idea for her next book: an epic novel set in 1960s Laurel Canyon, about two singer-songwriters who were friends and rivals. “I had Joni Mitchell and Judee Sill as the templates for the two characters, but I was getting kind of bored,” the author says. At the same time, Rowbottom was listening to Lili Anolik’s podcast “Once Upon a Time … in the Valley,”
Krista Diamond worked in national parks, then went to Vegas to write a novel (opens the original)
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Krista Diamond might not seem like the type of person to be fascinated by paparazzi. The essayist worked for years at a series of national parks: Death Valley, Yellowstone, Glacier, and Big Bend. When a photographer compared wildlife photographers to paparazzi, she was intrigued. She knows about wildlife and has long had an interest in celebrity culture. As well, she was aware of animals who became popular with the public: the bear Grizzly 399, for example, and Los Angeles’ own mountain lion, P-
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