Emily Doyle, who received her MFA from UC Riverside, is the Los Angeles-based author of the short story collection “Please Don’t Touch the Body.”

Q. What’s something about your book that no one knows?

On its surface, “Please Don’t Touch the Body” is a book of short stories concerning what’s wonderful and horrifying about ...Read more

Harlan Coben says he always thought his fiction had nothing to do with his real life as a suburban dad. ”I make stuff up; what do I know about murder and mayhem and all these things?”

And then he wrote “Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft,” and realized how deeply his life and his writing are intertwined.

Funny enough, ...Read more

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Oct. 3, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2026, PWxyz LLC.)

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1. "Threshing Day ...Read more

WASHINGTON — On the surface, it wouldn’t seem like an early-aughts teen comedy has much in common with the drawing of congressional maps.

Don’t tell that to Rory Riley Topping and Josh Rultenberg, who spend a good chunk of their new book referencing “Mean Girls.” The authors of “Draw the Line in Ohio” are on a mission to break ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — One evening a month, roughly a dozen men and women convene at the Panera Bread in Campbell, filling the dining room’s largest table and spilling into nearby booths. They’re there for Silent Book Club, where their mission for the session is to read in silence, surrounded by other people, for an hour.

Once reading time ...Read more

Robyn Gigl, author of books that include “Survivor’s Guilt” and “Nothing but the Truth,” returns with a new crime novel, “All We Hide.”

Gigl, an attorney as well as a writer, takes the Q&A to discuss the book and writing about trans life.

Q. Please tell readers about your new novel, “All We Hide.”

“All We Hide” ...Read more

This story really begins with butter chicken at a truck stop.

Because my husband’s family lives in Northern California, for the past 20 years, to make it to family gatherings, we have regularly traveled up and down the 5, the 99, the 101 — all the arteries running through California’s Central Valley and beyond.

If you know these routes, ...Read more

A new book by a veteran attraction creator offers advice regarding creative processes, goals, structure, brain-storming and transformation storytelling.

Bob Rogers’ “Deep Story: Complete Guide for Creating Transformational Visitor Attractions” is now available. He founded BRC Imagination Arts in 1981, and its projects and clients since ...Read more

MINNESOTA — James Hong isn’t ready to retire. The 97-year-old Minnesota native may not look as spry as he did in memorable moments from “Chinatown” and “Blade Runner,” but he still has the spirit of actors half his age.

During a Zoom interview with the legend last month, Hong broke out his impersonations of James Cagney and Jimmy ...Read more

In some long-ago October, I can vaguely recall a house that gave out books for Halloween one year instead of candy, a substitution only slightly better received than, say, a toothbrush or a single Brussels sprout.

However, for me, I would have happily traded a few sleeves of Smarties or a stale Charleston Chew for the chance to stuff a good ...Read more

It’s finally spooky season!

Or close enough. Which means we can start screaming about the plethora of horror novels coming out this October.

You’ve heard of an advent calendar — well, this is a demented calendar. A book a day keeps the ghosts away! But only for October. You’re on your own for Christmas.

There may not be a chill in the...Read more

There’s a new monster hunter prowling the shelves.

“I like tackling standard horror tropes and flipping them on their heads and seeing what I can do with them,” said Keith Rosson during a recent email interview.

And flip them on their heads he does. You won’t find any sexy monsters or happy endings in a Rosson novel. What you will find...Read more

Although the details of Princess Diana's life have been scrutinized for decades, it's been nearly 30 years since her untimely death, and her younger brother, journalist and author Charles Spencer, is telling his side of the story in "Swan Song: Diana, My Sister."

The explosive and heart-wrenching tell-all, released this week, has reportedly ...Read more

SEATTLE — In decades of performing, beginning as a University of Washington student and encompassing iconic roles in film (“Dune,” “Blue Velvet”) and television (“Twin Peaks,” “Sex and the City,” “Desperate Housewives”), Kyle MacLachlan has entertained a vast audience. His new memoir, “Fictional Selves” (out Sept. 29 ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Of all the details, stories and praise that accompanied the recent death of Dolly Parton, one of the most surprising was her affection for cemeteries.

We learned that she once said, “I love cemeteries … because nobody but weirdos like me really want to hang out there. I don’t go there just to hang out with the dead; the dead ...Read more

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Sept. 19, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana.

(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2026, PWxyz LLC.)

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1. "The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — John Green's nine-year hiatus from fiction has ended, and his adult debut, "Hollywood, Ending," comes right on time to explore the dark side of fame.

The novel centers on former child actor Juniper Castillo and Hollywood newbie Kai Laramie, who are cast in the artsy biopic "Andy Warhol Never Gets Old," with hotshot movie star ...Read more