A 2026 Guggenheim Fellow, essayist, and scholar Emily Ogden is the author of the essay collections “On Not Knowing” and the just-published “Darkness Becomes Bright: On the Brief Life and Immortal Art of Edgar Allan Poe.”

She responded to our questions about the new book.

Q: Please tell readers about your new work of nonfiction, “...Read more

CHICAGO -- The book title says a lot in a few words: “Scream! Bleed! Take Off Your Clothes!” (University of Chicago Press). It is a book about a wild and wonderful time that set fires in the city’s cultural landscape, sparked by a visionary named Stuart Gordon and his band of merry talents that formed and performed as the Organic Theater ...Read more

Horror by air, land and sea?

Sounds about right for this time of year, which includes spooky season and the holidays Americans travel most during. Yeah, we might just stay home after listening to the new audiobook from Marcus Kliewer.

“Please Remain Seated,” out now from Simon & Schuster, is an audio original from the best-selling horror ...Read more

“Savage Lake” is author Nick Medina’s ode to the cabin in the woods.

“I’ve been a longtime fan of cabin-in-the-woods horror stories, and ‘Savage Lake’ is my contribution to the subgenre,” he said during a recent email interview. “It’s instantly isolating, and — for the most part — it’s easy to buy into, making it ...Read more

NEW YORK — Paris Hilton repeatedly flaked on interviews for Kim Kardashian’s upcoming biography, irking her billionaire beauty mogul pal.

“Citizen Kim: The Woman Who Created the Future,” is being penned by author Jonathan Van Meter, who recently spoke about the process in an interview published by the Hollywood Reporter. He said of all ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Catapult Books, an indie publisher that has supported authors across Southern California and beyond, has been sold.

Launched by Elizabeth Koch and Andy Hunter more than a decade ago, the independent publisher will shutter operations in just over a week, per Publisher's Weekly, which spoke with members of the publisher's union. ...Read more

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Oct. 17, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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CHICAGO — For Izidora Angel, translating books from her native Bulgarian to English is akin to an actor reading a script.

She’ll start by writing five or 10 pages in order to understand the author’s voice — the cadence, the emotional beats. Then she’s able to fully inhabit it.

“You have to find all the nooks and crannies of it … ...Read more

In the opening chapter of “The Tulip Poplars,” a teenage Tom Foster arrives at a community dance upon his beloved mule, Daisy, and quickly finds a dance partner in his childhood friend, Maeve.

The two spend the night reeling and twirling to old-time Appalachian music. But Maeve is not the person Tom longs to dance with. That is his friend, ...Read more

Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection, “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,” was rejected by major publishing houses before being picked up by West Virginia University Press. The book would go on to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Story Prize, an LA Times Book Prize for first fiction, and it was a finalist for the ...Read more

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Oct. 10, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana.

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LOS ANGELES — In his just-published memoir, "Sitcom," Chuck Lorre doesn't turn his life into a joke, exactly, though the voice that fueled series as disparate as "Mike & Molly," "The Big Bang Theory," "Mom" and "The Kominsky Method" also knows how to land a punch line in autobiographical prose.

And for a story that chronicles Lorre's literal ...Read more

Emily St. John Mandel touched down in Los Angeles just hours before she arrived at Botanica in Silver Lake, shirt crisp, eyes bright, not a hint of jet lag in sight. The night before, she'd been in Brooklyn, celebrating the release of her highly-anticipated "Exit Party," which is ricocheting up bestseller lists. At Botanica, Mandel tells me it's...Read more

Nicole Brown Simpson wore a long-sleeved cover-up by the beach, despite the warm weather. “We kept telling her, ‘C’mon, get in the water.’ She wouldn’t,” Denise Brown recalls of a Hawaiian vacation with her sister, Nicole, and the rest of her family, including her brother-in-law, O.J. Simpson. “We didn’t know it then, but he’d ...Read more

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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