Julia Whelan and her book “Thanks for Listening: A Novel.” Whelan will appear with fellow author Allison Winn Scotch at the “Super Book IV” event in San Diego on Feb. 16 Julia Whelan is a bestselling author, a screenwriter, an actor, a Grammy-nominated audiobook director and an award-winning audiobook narrator. How does she select the […]
What’s the last great book you read? I recently reread Edwidge Danticat’s “The Art of Death,” an extraordinary exploration of how we make meaning from death in life and literature. It was even more revelatory reading it from this point in the pandemic. Are there any classic novels that you only recently read for the […]
Paul La Farge, whose well-regarded novels played audaciously with history and narrative technique as they explored how the past can affect the present, died on Jan. 18 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was 52. His wife, Sarah Stern, said the cause was cancer. Mr. La Farge’s novels and short stories defied easy categorization, but they were […]
Diana Ejaita In “Maame,” a young woman strives for independence while carrying the weight of her family’s world. MAAME, by Jessica George You can get a sense of Maddie Wright’s life from her Google searches, which pop up regularly throughout Jessica George’s sparkling debut novel, “Maame.” Here are a few windows on her worried soul: […]
For the exhibit “Lost in Translation,” San Diego artist Jackie Dunn Smith created a painting, right, purely from the words written by local writer Patrick Coleman, left. “What’s that saying: ‘there are a thousand words in a picture?’” So asks Chi Essary, a local curator, and arts advocate, when describing “Lost in Translation: A Game […]
