Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Books are influential. They have the power to make you cry, dream, escape reality and catapult you on new adventures. Books also ...

In this special new podcast, Paul goes behind the curtain with the legendary creator of “Laugh In,” and so much more, George Schlatter. Schlatter, now 93, has related his many stories and memories in ...

George Schlatter was working in the mailroom at a talent agency when he first met Frank Sinatra. It was 1948 and Schlatter was so fresh-faced that Sinatra told him, “I have ties older than you.” Later ...

George Schlatter, author of Still Laughing: A Life in Comedy, joins Steve Dale to talk about his new book and the amazing experiences he has had with some of Hollywood’s biggest names.

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. This week we speak with comedian and first-time author Youngmi Mayer, whose ...

The Seattle Public Library loves to promote books and reading. This column, submitted by the library, is a space to share reading and book trends from a librarian’s perspective. You can find these ...

Earlier this month, the Book Review’s staff critics — Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai — released a list of 22 novels they have found reliably funny since Joseph Heller’s landmark ...

Kathy Lariviere always has found life funny. Finding a lump in her breast in 2012 was anything but. Yet over the next 15 months of diagnosis with breast cancer, surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation, ...

Launching in April, Little Genius Books is an independent publisher of children’s books that specializes in creating high-quality, affordable content. The imprint, led by industry veteran Jeremy ...

RAISING A RIOT (244 pp.)—Alfred Toombs—Crowell ($3). “You men! You think you’re so smart. I’d just like to see you try to take care of a house and kids.” That anguished cry of womankind has echoed ...