Also, here’s a guide to the best movies, TV, concerts, art and games of the season.īig book: California doctor-novelist Abraham Verghese unpacks his long-awaited epic, “The Covenant of Water.” “There’s nothing else I know that can stop time as effectively as getting lost in a big novel,” he says.įorgotten victims: “No one knows how many Native American women and girls are missing and murdered each year.” That is the first sentence of Los Angeles writer Mona Gable’ s new book, “ Searching for Savanna.” Gable’s nonfiction account of the kidnapping and murder of 22-year-old Savanna Lafontaine-Greywind of Fargo, N.D.
Newman, Ivy Pochoda and Colson Whitehead. Times reporter Stacy Perman revisits the history and its relevance today.īeach books and more: Regular Times critics preview 11 novels to get excited about this summer, including new stories from Naomi Hirahara, T.J. Nearly 80 years after Chandler excoriated the industry, a new generation of scribes has taken to the picket lines to denounce the pileup of indignities. But showmen make nothing they exploit what someone else has made,” he wrote in the Atlantic. Writers ’ strike: Two years into Raymond Chandler’s career as a screenwriter, the man whose hard-boiled fiction did much to make film noir into an art form had already wearied of the town’s treatment of writers. The Los Angeles Times also won Pulitzers for coverage of two of the most troubling problems facing Southern California: homelessness and racial division. “His Name Is George Floyd” by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa took home the nonfiction prize. The Pulitzers: This week two novels, “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver and “Trust” by Hernan Diaz, shared the Pulitzer Prize for fiction - the first joint win since the fiction award began in 1918.
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