Controversial owner Wendy McCaw has shut down Santa Barbara News-Press, which won Pulitzer prize in 1962The longest-running newspaper in southern California has ceased publication after filing for bankruptcy.The Santa Barbara News-Press has posted its last online edition after ceasing print... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-07-24 12:36:36 UTC ]
The 43nd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded tonight at the University of Southern California's Bovard Auditorium. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-04-22 04:49:44 UTC ]
Women have faced gender-based discrimination in the workforce throughout history, denied employment in all but a handful of subservient roles, regularly ignored for promotions and pay raises — and rarely ever compensated at the same rates as their male peers. This long and storied socioeconomic... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2022-10-30 14:30:31 UTC ]
Paul Pringle's work exposed serious abuses at the University of Southern California, but the dispute with his former co-workers may overshadow his book. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-08-19 10:00:16 UTC ]
Susan Straight's "Mecca" shows a Southern California that's far from the glitz of Hollywood. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-03-15 12:11:02 UTC ]
The bestselling crime novelist plans a virtual book tour for his new title, "Broken," as the coronavirus keeps him home in Southern California. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-04-07 15:00:38 UTC ]
From the title, you might think that On Swift Horses is about cowboys, horse wrangling, rural landscapes—and you wouldn’t be entirely wrong. Shannon Pufahl’s debut novel explores wide-open spaces and how people navigate them in a post-Depression, post-World War II, Baby Boomer era in Southern... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-11-21 12:00:00 UTC ]
On this warm October day in Southern California, I walk the Venice canals and think of Kate Braverman. How in her sensational first novel Lithium for Medea she captured a Venice so distant that it’s difficult to accept that this version, which is polished and expensive and filled with tourists,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-10-22 08:48:36 UTC ]
A cohort of ad industry veterans and tech platforms are launching BritePool, an identity solution for digital advertising that aims to provide consumers with some level of control over who uses their data. Along the way, it hopes to offer agencies and brands an alternative to the so-called... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thousands of Angelenos remained without power Wednesday after strong winds whipped through Southern California overnight, toppling trees and power lines and leaving streets littered with debris. About 33,000 customers in the Hollywood Hills, South L.A., Koreatown, Mid-Wilshire, Fairfax, Silver... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Good morning. Unless you’re one of the lucky folks who are reading this from Mammoth, it’s a good weekend to stay home and do some cooking, maybe curl up with a blanket — yes, this is cold for us — and a stack of cookbooks. We can help with that last part, as we have a story about the couple who... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The postseason has arrived in high school basketball, and it’s time for the best teams in Southern California to go head to head in the Open Division playoffs. In the City Section, No. 1-seeded Fairfax and No. 2-seeded Westchester will be heavily favored in their openers on Friday against Harbor... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walking along a battered stretch of her beloved beach, Sandie Iverson ticked off the destruction from recent storms. The boardwalk and a seawall collapsed. Palm trees were ripped from their roots. As winter rains alight on Southern California, Iverson couldn’t help but wonder what fresh calamity... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Live Talk Los Angeles has launched on Spectrum Networks, turning an author event series into a weekly primetime TV show for 1.8 million subscribers in Southern California. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Welcome! I’m L.A. Times books editor Carolyn Kellogg with this week’s newsletter. THE BIG STORY Many still think of Jonathan Lethem as a New York writer (for the Brooklyn-set bestsellers “Motherless Brooklyn” and “The Fortress of Solitude”), but he’s been in Southern California for eight years.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Moreno Valley man wanted by police in connection with a double homicide in Nevada and a shooting in Southern California was arrested Wednesday after a chase and shootout with deputies that he livestreamed on Facebook. San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies arrived at the scene of a shooting... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Deborah Harkness, history professor at the University of Southern California, was riveted by the alternate world of the Twilight series, a free-spirited departure from the 16th-century Elizabethan era that was her specialty. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the Los Angeles Times’ Festival of Books, authors who may rarely be seen are able to show a bit more personality than usual. Our photographer Jay L. Clendenin was able to coax fun moments out of authors who stopped by the L.A. Times Studio at the University of Southern California. Here are... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon moves into Southern California; a Wisconsin bookstore considers going co-op; Macmillan expedites holiday shipping; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Books, the e-commerce giant’s seemingly incongruous bricks-and-mortar venture, is now open in San Diego. The store marks the company’s second foray into offline retail. The 3,500-square-foot shop at a mall in the University City neighborhood premiered with little fanfare Sept. 7 and is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]