1. All the chefs and cookbook authors you want to see at the L.A. Times Festival of Books

   LA Times » 4 days ago

   We've got an exciting lineup of cookbook authors, memoirists and food personalities appearing at this year's Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the campus of the University of Southern California April 26 and 27. ...

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1. Matthew Specktor on Hollywood's 'fascist turn' toward blockbusters: 'It erodes the soul of the city'

   LA Times » 1 week ago

   Matthew Specktor says the decline of the movie industry is hurting L.A.: "This used to be a city to dream of and I don't think it really is that anymore."...

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1. Wellwater by Karen Solie – landscapes in distress captured with raw candour

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   In this blazingly honest collection, the Canadian poet catalogues humanity’s destructive impact on the natural worldIt is human nature to prefer our landscapes neatly framed – walls and wooden fences create the illusion that the great outdoors can be controlled and contai...

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1. Sister Europe by Nell Zink review – ramshackle wanderers in Berlin

   The Guardian » 1 week ago

   Zink’s seventh novel, about a night of conversation and adventure, is full of wit and marvellous writing, but ultimately trails offCalifornia-born, Berlin-based Nell Zink is an idiosyncratic writer. You never quite know where her sentences are going to go. “Oh God, Toto, ...

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1. Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold review – engrossing retelling of ‘the crime of the century’

   The Guardian » 4 weeks ago

   This account of Dr Crippen’s notorious Edwardian-era killing shifts the focus to the women at the centre of the sordid taleOn the evening of 31 January 1910, two couples dined together at a house in Hilldrop Crescent, on the borders of Holloway, London. The hosts, Dr Crip...

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1. Poem of the week: Gravel by Maurice Riordan

   The Guardian » 1 day ago

   There’s a wry smile underlying Riordan’s examination of the greatness and smallness of a heap of gravel For FrankI, too, will spend an hour playing with the gravel. Sorting and cleaning it. It does love the dirt....

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1. Inside John Lennon and Paul McCartney's partnership and the song that shifted the 'balance of power'

   LA Times » 3 weeks ago

   Ian Leslie's new Beatles book, 'John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs,' offers a detailed narrative of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's creative partnership....

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1. The best recent poetry – review roundup

   The Guardian » 3 weeks ago

   Dante’s Inferno by Lorna Goodison; Wellwater by Karen Solie; Chaotic Good by Isabelle Baafi; Find Me As the Creature I Am by Emily Jungmin Yoon; Ecstasy by Alex Dimitrov...

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1. My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss audiobook review – a life shaped by anorexia and literature

   The Guardian » 3 weeks ago

   The Scottish actor Morven Christie draws out the forlorn beauty of the prose in this haunting memoirA haunting exploration of a life shaped by literature and anorexia, ...

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1. The Strange Case of Jane O by Karen Thompson Walker review – an impossible tale

   The Guardian » 3 weeks ago

   A New York librarian is discovered unconscious in a park with no memory, in a mystery that challenges consensual realityWe first meet Jane O in the consulting room of Henry Byrd, a New York psychiatrist. Jane, a 38-year-old librarian, is neat, quiet, outwardly unremarkabl...

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