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Jack is best read in a quiet space. Slowly. Pensively. Because it is a quiet novel, told almost in a whisper. An interior narrative by one...

This is one of the most hard to put down novels I’ve read, and that’s saying something, considering all the good fiction that’s been...

Yaa Gyasi’s debut novel, Homegoing, was a hard-hitting study of four generations of African women descending from a slave ship. It moved...

Laguna Live! announces a new partnership with the Susi Q Senior Center to present classical music in a new and entertaining way.

How wonderful to discover a new voice—not new in Europe, but to us. Valerie Perrin is a French screenwriter and photographer, also an...

When it comes to the writer Philip Roth, there are two camps: those who dismiss him as a sex-obsessed east coast Jewish highbrow, and those...

Otessa Moshfegh writes mostly about seemingly ordinary people trapped in bizarre circumstances. ...

In Vivian Gornick's memoir, "Unfinished Business," a master reader-writer in late life revisits influential literature.

Laguna Beach Books launches a new virtual author event series. Hosted via the Zoom video/web conferencing application, featured authors...

Without leaving home, go somewhere else. Most of us are stuck at home. Some are home schooling, bravo to all of you. Some are working from...

With the ongoing Coronavirus crisis, many Orange County restaurants have had to temporarily close their doors to the public, but people...

Two little gems: Weather by Jenny Offill, published in February, and Artforum by César Aira, published in March.

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