Los Angeles Times Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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“Crossroads” is the first installment in what Jonathan Franzen has suggested will be a trilogy. https://t.co/nWJbQMhvxA

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"Sea of Tranquility," Emily St. John Mandel's new novel, is as ambitious as "Station Eleven," again using sci-fi tropes to ask deeply human questions. https://t.co/P0V5kxTMNM

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How Silicon Valley, Sylvia Plath and a killer work ethic inspired a novel like no other https://t.co/0TqgrUNWDs

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Netflix's adaptation of Jane Austen's #Persuasion "appears to have lifted sentences from the novel and fed them through some kind of Instagram-filtering, catchphrase-generating, text-summarizing idiot bot," writes @JustinCChang. https://t.co/dbXeejuN63

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In "Chilean Poet," Alejandro Zambra expands his scope in a tender, clever, hilarious novel of poets and step-parenthood. It's also an ode to his estranged homeland. https://t.co/jpc0OAwHVq

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Don't miss our books event tonight with Brit Bennett at 6 p.m. PT. She'll be discussing her work "The Vanishing Half." Have questions for her? Email bookclub@latimes.com before the event https://t.co/xD4k8jWZ4N

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Denis Villeneuve, along with Eric Roth and Jon Spaihts, pays tribute to Frank Herbert and his visionary "Dune." https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2022-02-16/denis-villeneuve-finds-key-to-adapting-dune

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American Artist’s upcoming exhibition is like “a road map through Southern California locales inspired by ‘Parable of the Sower,’” says Tananarive Due. https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/image/story/2022-05-18/american-artist-new-exhibition-excavates-the-future-octavia-butler-built-in-her-work

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Why Celeste Ng calls her new novel, 'Our Missing Hearts,' 'scarily real' https://t.co/iGzWGk35Fs

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Gabrielle Zevin's "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" was the April selection for the L.A. Times Book Club. Zevin joined us at the L.A. Times Festival of Books for a special panel on Saturday. 📸: @myung_chun  https://t.co/pEVnYlOW9K https://t.co/wDFbLEnBAB