Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times, and I’m in the mood for fiction — lots of it. Fortunately, my TBR ...

Each day we are bombarded by incessant media in every conceivable form; on the radio, with podcasts, text messages, social media, blogs, downloads, emails, and commercials popping up everywhere we ...

Cynthia J. Sylvester's book "The Half-White Album" is a collection of her short stories, flash fiction and poetry. The writing is lively, thoughtful and inventive. Sylvester, an Albuquerque resident, ...

With summer — and some welcome downtime — on the horizon, we have just the thing to help you spend those hours by the pool, at the beach, or on a plane: New books! I first got to know Megan Giddings' ...

This is the eighth story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. Read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction from previous years, here. That spring the premier implemented a series of daring ...

This is the second story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. You can read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction from previous years, here. “I forget ...