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 ...

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 ...

The writer Lauren Groff — best known for her novel, Fates and Furies, and her collection of short stories, Florida-- wants you to know that she's on a rescue mission. The object of her efforts is also ...