California Coastal showcases the breadth and beauty of home design with the sea as a backdrop. The new book showcases gorgeous architecture and design along the California coast. Anyone who spends a ...
The City of Angels, La La Land, Tinseltown, the Big Orange — whatever you call this city and however you’ve made a life in it, you probably have an obsession or three about Los Angeles and our great ...
Readers suggest books that help make sense of the nation’s most populous state. By Soumya Karlamangla Choosing your next book to read can be a dizzying task. I’m often overwhelmed by having so many ...
CONTINENT’S END—edifed by Joseph Henry Jackson—Whittlesey House—($3.50). On the Pacific Coast, the word of Joseph Henry Jackson* is literary law. Eastern publishers quote his reviews, publish almost ...
We’re adding love letters and cautionary tales to our Golden State reading list. By Soumya Karlamangla One of my favorite books about Los Angeles is Eve Babitz’s witty collection of essays “Slow Days, ...
California has inspired the works of acclaimed writers John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Isabel Allende, and Joan Didion. Now, a just-published book features a new generation of creatives ready to tell the ...
Independent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities. They provide culture and community, generate local jobs and sales tax revenue, promote literacy and education, champion and center ...
Independent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities. They provide culture and community, generate local jobs and sales tax revenue, promote literacy and education, champion and center ...
THE BIG FOUR—Oscar Lewis—Knopf ($4.50). Readers of recent muckraking histories like Matthew Josephson’s The Robber Barons are likely to feel they have heard all they want to about early U. S. railroad ...