Arnold Hylen (1908-1987) se formó en el Instituto de Arte Chouinard y encontró trabajo como fotógrafo para Fluor Corporation, donde trabajó desde principios de la década de 1940 hasta la de 1970…
TJ Klune es el autor número 1 en ventas del New York Times y del USA Today, ganador del Premio Literario Lambda, y autor de La Casa en el Mar Cerúleo, Bajo la Puerta Susurrante, En la Vida de las…
Margarita Montimore es autora de Acts of Violet, Asleep From Day y Oona Out of Order, que fue un éxito de ventas de USA Today y una selección del Club de Lectura Good Morning America. Tras obtener una…
Kemper Donovan presenta el podcast "Todo sobre Agatha". Graduado de la Universidad de Stanford y de la Facultad de Derecho de Harvard, trabajó en la empresa de gestión literaria Circle of Confusion…
Chris Nichols es un conservacionista con una larga trayectoria y editor sénior de la revista Los Angeles. Durante muchos años, colaboró con el Comité Moderno de Conservación de Los Ángeles, donde…
Charmaine Wilkerson es la autora de Black Cake, bestseller del New York Times, que fue elegido por el Club de Lectura Read With Jenna y adaptado como serie de Hulu por Oprah Winfrey y Kapital…
Mallory O'Meara es la autora superventas de La dama de la laguna negra, que ganó el premio SCIBA 2019 a la biografía y el premio Rondo 2019 al libro del año, Girly Drinks, que ganó un premio James…
Hache Pueyo es una escritora y traductora argentino-brasileña. Obtuvo una beca otherwise por su trabajo sobre género en la ficción especulativa, y su obra ha aparecido como H. Pueyo en The Magazine of…
Edward Underhill creció en los suburbios de Wisconsin, donde no podía ir caminando a ningún sitio, así que tuvo que buscarse la vida. Estudió música en la universidad, pasó varios años viviendo en…
Jess Armstrong es la autora superventas de USA Today de los misterios de Ruby Vaughn. Su primera novela, La maldición de Penryth Hall, ganó el concurso de novela policiaca de Minotaur Books/Mystery…
After her husband’s death, Tova Sullivan took a job cleaning the Sowell Bay Aquarium. She works evenings after the aquarium has closed to the public, mopping the floors, clearing the trash cans, and cleaning the glass walls of the exhibition tanks until they shine. As she works her way around...
Monster. The word brings to mind ugly, misshapen creatures wreaking havoc wherever they go. Perhaps the most famous monster is Frankenstein’s monster from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It’s been over 200 years since the teenaged Shelley created one of the most enduring tales of all time. And over the last two...
On a whim, a young Chinese-American girl pays with an inch of her hair so that she and he sister can see Romeo and Juliet at the new nickelodeon in their neighborhood. From that moment on, she has a single desire: to be a motion picture star. Not simply an...
As Wren Roland celebrates his 22nd birthday with his best friends and roommates, Mateo and Avery, he begins to lament the fact that he has never been kissed. He’s been close, but has yet to experience what his degree in film studies has convinced him will be a life-altering and...
Joan believes herself to be a typical teenager. She spends her summers in London visiting her maternal grandmother, while her father visits his family in Malaysia. During this visit, she has been volunteering at Holland House, a historic home and museum in Kensington. Holland House is where she met Nick...
In 2019, Kim Michele Richardson told the story of Cussy Mary Carter and her work as a Pack Horse Librarian in The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Now, in 2022, Richardson returns to tell the next chapter in Cussy Mary’s story, which actually belongs to her daughter, in The Book...
A young woman on her way to her first day of classes at Brooklyn College spills coffee on herself just prior to boarding the subway. Another young woman on the train comes to her rescue with a scarf and a kind word. The next time the student boards the train...
Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond learned the practices and customs of Vodou as a child from her father, while her family was living in Haiti. She is inhabited by the spirit of Erzulie, which makes her a gifted practitioner of water magic. Reina operates a small business behind her home...
The year is 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. is about to hold his Freedom Rally at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles; William H. Parker is Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department; John F. Kennedy is President of the United States; Pat Brown is the Governor of California; Gas is...
Meiko is the Japanese wife of Jamie Briggs, a white US Air Force pilot fighting in World War II. Meiko, and her daughter Aiko, are “residents” of the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho. A few days ago, an unscheduled truck came to the camp. The residents are told to stay...
