Carolyn Kellogg

Don Winslow's novel "Savages" is now a movie -- and it's got a prequel on shelves now too....

Popular writer Jonah Lehrer, who focuses on the science of the mind, moves from Wired to the New Yorker....

Stickers marked with the Trystero symbol from Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" and a coded URL are hidden nationwide. But what do they mean?...

During the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, writer Matthew Specktor sat down with L.A. Times staff writer Carolyn Kellogg to discuss his new novel, "American Dream Machine." It's a book set in and around a fictional Hollywood talent agency, not unlike...

Antoine Wilson joined L.A. Times features editor Alice Short at the L.A. Times Festival of Books to talk about his novel "Panorama City," which features a naive, or slow, narrator named Oppen Porter. It's "A Southern California 'Candide' ... or 'Gilead'...

John Scalzi's appearance at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books was preceded by a visit to our video booth, where he talked about his new project, a return to his "Old Man's War" series. Fans may have already read much of the fifth book, "The...

Alex Espinoza's new novel, "The Five Acts of Diego Leon," is the story of a fictional Mexican American actor who becomes one Hollywood studio's Latin Lover -- like Rudolph Valentino -- in the late 1920s and early 1930s. "Through cunning, wit, and a...

Bestselling novelist Jonathan Evison dropped by our video booth at the L.A. Times Festival of Books to talk with L.A. Times columnist Robin Abcarian about "The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving," his novel that has just been released in paperback.  The...

Edgar Award-winning author Naomi Hirahara published her first Mas Arai mystery in 2004; the series starring the Japanese American gardener and crime solver is now on its fifth novel, "Strawberry Yellow." She visited our video booth at the L.A. Times...

Daniel Handler dropped by our video booth at the L.A. Times Festival of Books before appearing live with children's book illustrator Jon Klassen, collaborator on the new children's book "The Dark." Handler has written fiction aimed at adults, but he...

At the L.A. Times Festival of Books, Kelly Oxford sat down with Times columnist Robin Abcarian to talk about her book “Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar,” the Twitter star's first collection of humorous essays. VIDEO: AUTHOR...

At the L.A. Times Festival of Books, Molly Ringwald sat down with L.A. Times staff writer Carolyn Kellogg to discuss her book of short stories, “When It Happens to You,” surprising tour encounters and the new book she’s starting....