James Ellroy talks with Chapter 16 about cops, history, and “literary megalomania”
…journalism at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He is the author of three traditional books of nonfiction—Cave Passages, Dark Life, and Caves—as well as The Cat Manual, an ebook….
…of American Poets, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Griffin Prize, the American Book Award in Poetry, The Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the Bollingen…
Mary Laura Philpott signs a book deal for her adorable penguins
…Penguin Random House might call. I figured it would be a lawyer with some sort of cease-and-desist message. But when the call came, it was not a lawyer. It was…
In her fourth memoir, comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her visits to far-flung destinations, making fun of everything along the way
…scenes with a jolting, if lowbrow, absurdity. While the majority of Uganda Be Kidding Me is devoted to Handler’s time in southern Africa, the book also includes stories of her…
Robert Hilburn captures a music icon in his rich new biography of Johnny Cash
…account of Cash’s various romantic interests. Cash’s pursuit of June Carter was well-known even before the 2005 film; less often discussed were the other singers Cash was drawn to on…
With Doomed, cult hero Chuck Palahniuk brings Madison Spencer up from the depths of Perdition into Purgatory—AKA Los Angeles
…‘Dandruff Desert,’ surveying the ‘Great Ocean of Wasted Sperm,’ and navigating the ‘Swamp of Partial-Birth Abortions,’” wrote Darren Carlaw in the New York Journal of Books.“The easily offended stopped reading…
