See the Times’ wonderful profile from fellow San Franciscan John McMurtrie.Īnd this week, the foundation rolled out its longlists - 10 in each category. On to the nominees! Last week the National Book Foundation announced that Paul Yamazaki, longtime book buyer for City Lights, was slated to receive its lifetime-achievement Literarian Award. noncitizens, including those without official documents - surely at least partly in response to a poignant essay in the Times from memoirist Javier Zamora. And more significantly, the artistic Pulitzer Prizes will now be open to U.S. The National Book Foundation announced Tuesday that it had rescinded its invitation for Drew Barrymore to host its annual National Book Awards ceremony in mid-November, citing her decision to bring her talk show back on air during the WGA strike. Awards season pre-gameīook awards are around the corner, as you can tell from a trickle of longlist announcements and a few big changes making the news. She talks to Bethanne Patrick about her fittingly titled new book of linked stories, “Normal Rules Don’t Apply,” in which a force called the Void threatens to kill us all. Beloved for her Jackson Brodie mysteries and her literary-speculative crossover “ Life After Life,” the British author knows no rules. Whither the #girlboss? Marisa Meltzer, a leading journalist of feminist culture, has written a business story that tracks an important trend in fashion, self-care and tech - the girlboss era - through a singular lens in “Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier.” She talks to Times contributor Jessica Ferri about both the sexist burdens and the blindspots of female CEOs.Īnd what’s next for Branagh’s Poirot? Times culture columnist Mary McNamara and film critic Justin Chang go deep - really deep - on Agatha Christie in a conversation occasioned by Kenneth Branagh’s third film adaptation of a Hercule Poirot series book, “A Haunting in Venice.” In another Meredith Blake joint, Zakiya Dalila Harris talks through how her breakthrough novel, “The Other Black Girl” - “aptly described as ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ meets ‘Get Out’” - went from a story dreamed up out of a surreal moment as a junior employee at the book publisher Knopf Doubleday to a Hulu series. “The Other Black Girl” is ready for her closeup. Times staff writer Meredith Blake breaks down the numbers in reality-TV apostate Jill Duggar’s new book “Counting the Cost,” about the nefarious underpinnings of the television empire built by her parents, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar. Ruland covers every aspect of Goldberg’s persona - spiritual seeker, UC Riverside writing guru and scourge of Inland Empire politicians.Īccounting for the Duggars. Jim Ruland’s profile of Tod Goldberg marks the conclusion of the author’s Gangsterland series, a darkly humorous trilogy of desert noirs tracking Las Vegas Rabbi David Cohen, formerly known as hit man Sal Cupertino. As you read along with us, please share questions for Isaacson, like “Superhero or supervillain?,” in Eventbrite or send an email to The week in books that are not about Elon Musk event to discuss “Elon Musk” with Times columnist Anita Chabria. 1, when the author comes to El Segundo for his only L.A. In one (mostly) coordinated week-long burst, all the press - positive, negative or indifferent - had combined to make “Elon Musk” the first most talked-about book of the fall. texts” while reporting at breakneck speed and many more still. Times piece by former staff writer Margot Roosevelt on the challenges of dealing with “ manic moods and 3 a.m. Finally came the Isaacson profiles: A long one from New York Magazine plumbing his Establishment past a brisk L.A.
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