Bestselling writer Meg Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. She was a Clayton B. Ofstad endowed distinguished writer-in-residence at Truman State University, as well as a…
Rasheed Newson is the author of the national bestseller My Government Means to Kill Me, which was selected as a Lambda Literary finalist for Gay Fiction and was named one of the “100 Notable Books of…
Tony Lee Moral is a British filmmaker and author specializing in film history, particularly the work of Alfred Hitchcock. His latest book is A Century of Hitchcock.
Priya Parmar is the author of the novels Exit the Actress and Vanessa and Her Sister. Her latest novel is The Original, and she recently talked about it with Daryl Maxwell for the LAPL Blog.
Vincent Yu is a sales manager at W.W. Norton/Liveright and the winner of the 2021 Ashley Bourne Prize for fiction from Ploughshares. His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, StoryQuarterly…
Leah Weiss is an acclaimed southern writer living in Virginia. Her debut novel If the Creek Don't Rise was released in 2017 and selected as Library Reads, Indie Next, and SIBA Okra Pick. It was…
Meg Shaffer is the USA Today bestselling author of The Lost Story and The Wishing Game, which was a Book of the Month finalist for Book of the Year as well as a Reader's Digest and Washington Post…
"I was inspired by my dear friend and mentor, Robert Frank, who encouraged me to look beyond just pretty pictures and consider what I was trying to say. What were the photographs about, and what…
James Sugre is a vampire. He has lived for centuries, but has made some questionable choices. Bad choices, when it comes to investments. Now, he is broke. He has no money and is deep in debt. He can’t even afford his own reflection (they are available for a fee from Vampire Nation, an international conglomerate that both governs and provides for the world’s vampire population).
Wishes. We all make them, either silently to ourselves or possibly as a breathless whisper as we drop a coin in a fountain. The reason behind them can range from whimsical to deadly serious. And, in the "real world," they are, to quote Douglas Adams, "mostly harmless." In the world of fiction, however, wishes are entirely different.
The Ending Writes Itself is a marvelous read. Clarke will keep readers guessing and reevaluating as information is revealed and the body count rises, right up to the very last page.
Ang Evans Funeral Parlor ay halos kasinghaba na ng bayan sa Timog-Silangang Texas kung saan ito matatagpuan. Ito ay isang negosyong pang-henerasyon, pinangangasiwaan at ipinapasa sa mga babaeng Evans. Nariyan si Ducy, ang kasalukuyang matriarch ng pamilya, na anak ni Pie, na misteryosong nawala labingwalong taon na ang nakalilipas...
Noong 2020, ipinakilala ng VE Schwab sa mga mambabasa si Addie LaRue, isang dalagang gumawa ng kasunduang Faustian upang maiwasan ang isang hindi gustong kasal sa unang bahagi ng ika-18 siglong France. Sa The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, sinusundan ni Schwab si Addie sa paglipas ng mga siglo habang si Addie, sa pamamagitan ng kanyang sariling tuso at lakas ng kalooban, ay humuhubog...
Noong sampung taong gulang si Ebony "Ebby" Freeman, siya lamang ang nakasaksi sa isang bigong pagnanakaw sa bahay na nagresulta sa pagkamatay ng kanyang labinlimang taong gulang na kapatid na si Baz, at sa pagkawasak ng isang napakahalagang pamana ng pamilya. Ang katotohanan na si Ebby ay anak ng isang kilalang pamilyang Itim...
Binago ng buhay ni Dália ang umaga nang matagpuan ng katulong ang makinilyadong sulat na nagsasabing: "UMANGKA NG BAGONG TAGAPAG-INGAT NG MGA SUSI; MAAGAPAN; BAGO MAGBUKAS-BULAN NG LIWANAG" Alam ng lahat sa Capricious House ang ibig sabihin ng sulat at kung sino ang sumulat nito. Ang may-akda nito ay ang Ginang ng Capricious House, si Ginang Anatema, isang napakalaking gagamba/tao...
Noong 1924 sa London, si Lao She, isang mahiyain at batang akademiko, ay ipinatawag sa tahanan ng matematikong si Bertrand Russell. Pagdating niya, ipinaliwanag ni Russell na ang isang kaibigan at kasamahan, si Hukom Dee Ren Jie, ay maling inaresto kasama ang isang grupo ng mga Tsinong mapang-asar. Natatakot si Russell na kung ang pagkakakilanlan ni Dee ay...
