I was a teacher for 39 years. I had a student named Matthew who is now a 41-year-old man. He has stayed in contact with me since he was a 17-year-old student in my high school history class. Mathew ...

In her two novels, Virginia Pye wrote about China, but things are different with her short story collection. The nine tales in “Shelf Life of Happiness” are all set in the modern-day United States, ...

Since we launched the reimagined Sunday StarNews in December 2024, we’ve been publishing a weekly inspirational story. Renee Spencer, our community engagement editor, has written the vast majority of ...

Something is shifting in literary culture. " In a reading landscape reshaped by shorter attention spans and the relentless ...

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a fiction writer, punk historian and a longtime contributor to the Los Angeles Times, and this summer I’ll be ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...