5+ hour, 56+ min ago  (212+ words) This week's bestselling titles include The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez, Kin by Tayari Jones, and The Best Dog in the World by Alice Hoffman. With reporting from the California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Alta Journal brings you a list…...

9+ hour, 21+ min ago  (171+ words) Terry McDonell on the magazine's wild early years. "I was looking at Jann, and he was the only person at the table that didn't laugh," Partridge remembered. "He was nodding his head, like please continue. I got through, and he…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (274+ words) Here are works on and of the West, including The Oracle's Daughter, Brand New Beat, and Questions 27 and 28 that we're excited to see published this month. In this extensive collection, Alameddine and California Book Club host Freeman gather brilliant short…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (219+ words) Sarah Stone's linked novellas in Marriage to the Sea follow a theatrical family through grief, love, and the complications of self. While I'm a promiscuous, genre-hopping reader, I mostly write about literary fiction, and it was a joy to spend…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (98+ words) This week's Sunday funny comes to us from cartoonist Crowden Satz. Weekly Cartoon: Altatude #1 Issue 35 Weekly Cartoon: Altatude #7 Issue 24 Weekly Cartoon: Altatude #10 Issue 24 Weekly Cartoon: Altatude #9 Issue 24 Weekly Cartoon: Altatude #12 Issue 24 Weekly Cartoon: Altatude #11 Issue 24 Weekly Cartoon: Altatude #13 Issue 24 Weekly…...

1+ week, 41+ min ago  (180+ words) This week's bestselling titles include Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash, You with the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate, and Good Writing by Neal Allen and Anne Lamott. For a full list of titles and categories, visit the California Independent Booksellers…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (167+ words) Lunch in Montecito with Betty Fussell, one of America's great food writers. Let's go eat," Betty Fussell says. "I made a reservation at the Grill." "We're animals," she says. "All of us." Over the years, Jeff Gordinier has contributed to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (140+ words) Read Robert Hass's poem "Meditation at Lagunitas" from his collection Praise, the California Book Club's selection for April. Join us on April 16 at 5 p.m. Pacific time, when Robert Hass will sit down with host John Freeman and a special guest to…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (225+ words) In Privacy's Defender, Electronic Frontier Foundation executive director Cindy Cohn illuminates highs and lows of her career and life. By underplaying early events like these that shaped her justice frame, Cohn shows how each of us can live our values....

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (353+ words) California Book Club host John Freeman revisits Janet Fitch's Los Angeles novel White Oleander and its memorable protagonist, Astrid Magnussen. When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically," Jean Rhys writes in her…...