As the saying goes, we all have stories to tell. For some authors, these stories happen to be short. Just as the price tag of a product doesn’t signal its quality, neither does an author’s brevity ...

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Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a fiction writer, punk historian and a longtime contributor to the Los Angeles Times, and this summer I’ll be ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

When the Exxon Valdez dumped more than 10 million gallons of oil into the Prince William Sound, “Yellowfish” author John Keeble received a call from his then-Harper & Row editor Ted Solotaroff asking ...

Has this happened to you? Someone tells you about a book you must read and you’re thrilled – until you realize it’s a Very Big One, a wonderful slab of words so thick it needs its own seat on an ...

Shehnab Sahin’s first book of short stories follows a historical order, starting in the mid-19th century and ending in 2019.

James’ third novel and brilliant anticolonial critique (also a National Book Award longlist nominee) deploys a large cast of British and Indian characters. But its protagonist is a machine: an ...

Amor Towles has transported readers to a hotel in a changing Russia ("A Gentleman in Moscow") and the roads of the U.S. in the 1950's ("The Lincoln Highway," a Read With Jenna pick). For his next book ...