Fantasy novelist Tomi Adeyemi to speak in San Diego next week By The New York Times News Service Syndicate June 25, 2024 at 10:50 a.m. The Nigerian-American author will discuss her latest novel "Children of Anguish and Anarchy" at Mysterious...
Things to do | Why Maisie Dobbs author Jacqueline Winspear says it’s time to end the series By Erik Pedersen June 13, 2024 at 3:02 a.m. Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs novels immerse you so deeply into 20th-century British life that you...
Opinion | San Diego author explores love, family, mental health in latest novel By Lisa Deaderick June 9, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. Her mother doesn’t understand her change in hairstyle. She wants to be there for her...
Things to do | Investigative reporter takes deep look into ‘Fat Leonard’ scandal. ‘The skeletons are in this book.’ By Alex Riggins May 26, 2024 at 12:01 p.m. Craig Whitlock can still remember the moment he first heard about "Fat Leonard." He was...
Things to do | ‘A sense of calm’: Amy Tan’s writing and illustrations soar in new book about birds By Roxana Popescu May 19, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. Most of the drawings in Amy Tan’s unusual and rewarding new book, "The Backyard Bird...
Things to do | Local novelist, 76, turns her experience as a Latin American and Spanish art dealer into thrillers By Pam Kragen May 12, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. For more than 20 years, Linda Moore ran a well-reviewed San Diego art gallery that...
Things to do | More than ghosts and goblins, blood and gore, horror writers and fans get ready for StokerCon in San Diego By Lisa Deaderick May 11, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. Kristina Grifantini, who writes fiction under the name KC Grifant, found inspiration for her debut...
Opinion | UCLA professor tells story of ‘foot soldiers’ in human smuggling across the border in new book By Lisa Deaderick May 5, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. Researcher and professor Jason De León wanted to tell a different story about human smuggling...
Things to do | Travel writer explores ‘Beer Hiking’ in Southern California By Peter Rowe April 26, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. When a publisher suggested Johanna Flashman write a book on outdoor treks that lead to...
Things to do | A love of reading, fixation with San Diego Chicano history, leads to debut children’s book By Lisa Deaderick April 20, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. Growing up in National City meant that children’s book author María Dolores Águila was never...
Things to do | High suspense: 5 questions with the Encinitas author of ‘Matterhorn’ By Jimmy Camp April 14, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. You could say former stockbroker-turned-spy-thriller author Christopher Reich knows how to make a killing.Since leaving...
Opinion | It’s time to brush up your Shakespeare By Richard Lederer April 13, 2024 at 1:31 p.m. Little information about William Shakespeare’s personal life is available, but from municipal records we can...
Entertainment | San Diego Book Crawl returning with new shuttle for tour of local independent bookstores By Abby Hamblin April 22, 2024 at 6:23 p.m. In a time of AI girlfriends, deepfake videos and 3D printed rockets, a product made...
Things to do | Late start was a great start for these Southern California artists and authors By San Diego Union-Tribune April 7, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. Many artists and authors discovered their hidden talents in their childhood or their teens. But...
Things to do | San Diego veterinarian and author pens children’s book about America’s first female animal doctor By Lisa Deaderick April 5, 2024 at 5:31 p.m. Animals and books—it’s probably safe to say Jacqueline Johnson loves them equally. As a kid,...
Entertainment | Famed San Diego author Don Winslow ready to trade his pen for a protest sign By Benjamin P. Russell April 2, 2024 at 2:50 p.m. Like the cops, crooks and gangland toughs who populate his books, Julian resident Don Winslow...
Things to do | San Diego Writers Festival to host film director Ed Zwick, whose new Hollywood memoir tells all By Rick Kogan March 31, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. On a recent Friday night, Jim Belushi walked into a high-rise apartment in Chicago and...
Things to do | Vernor Vinge, visionary sci-fi author who helped foretell the rise of internet and AI, dies in La Jolla at 79 By Gary Robbins June 13, 2024 at 12:42 a.m. Vernor Vinge, the San Diego State University professor whose award-winning science fiction novels helped foretell...
Things to do | A book celebrates James Foley and confronts a man involved in his murder By Max Ufberg March 22, 2024 at 5:01 p.m. Among the scattered notes taped to the door of the Irish author Colum McCann’s home...
Things to do | Spring arts preview 2024: Our top 10 book picks and events for the season By Seth Combs March 27, 2024 at 7:07 p.m. Of all the seasons, the spring is prime time for new book releases. Publishers often...
Things to do | Spring arts preview 2024: Author Courtney Deane’s debut offers hope to those tired of hopelessly romantic novels By Seth Combs March 17, 2024 at 12:01 p.m. On the surface, it seemed entirely fitting to be interviewing Courtney Deane on Valentine’s Day....
Opinion | The enduring legacy of Robert Frost By Richard Lederer March 16, 2024 at 2:01 p.m. A Sesquicentennial Celebration of poet Robert Frost’s birth is coming to San Diego on Wednesday,...
Opinion | Filipinx feminism and activism, revisited and expanded in ‘Closer to Liberation’ By Lisa Deaderick March 10, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. The first time these friends read a piece in which a Filipina American scholar was...
Things to do | In ‘After Annie,’ Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shows how a family recovers from monumental loss By Catherine Newman March 9, 2024 at 3:03 p.m. Anna Quindlen knows what she’s doing. So there’s really no need to play Sigmund Freud...
Things to do | Nation’s top poets to converge at Robert Frost Sesquicentennial conference in San Diego By Pam Kragen March 31, 2024 at 5:25 p.m. For many Americans, the poetry of Robert Frost conjures images of bucolic life in New...
Things to do | AI-narrated books are here. Are humans out of a job? This San Diego startup has a solution. By Roxana Popescu March 9, 2024 at 1:15 a.m. If you've listened to an audiobook or a narrated news article in the past year...
Opinion | Author and scholar to discuss racist roots of ‘obesity epidemic’ at San Diego library By Lisa Deaderick February 29, 2024 at 10:04 p.m. In her 2019 book, “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia,” Sabrina...
Things to do | UCSD professor emeritus Quincy Troupe reflects on Miles Davis, poetry and more By Peter Larsen February 25, 2024 at 2:01 p.m. Back in the 1980s, Spin magazine asked Quincy Troupe who he'd like to write about...
Things to do | A searching debut novel about a California community changed by wildfire By Kayla Maiuri February 25, 2024 at 2:01 p.m. In her bracing debut novel, “A Fire So Wild,” Sarah Ruiz-Grossman chronicles a community in...
Things to do | ‘Burn Book’ torches tech titans in veteran reporter’s tale of love and loathing in Silicon Valley By Michael Liedtke March 22, 2024 at 1:33 a.m. Technology is so pervasive and invasive that it's polarizing people, producing feelings of love and...
Opinion | A vibrant Afro-Mexican community has always been in Mexico, their country is finally catching up By Lisa Deaderick February 18, 2024 at 2:01 p.m. It could be called a revelatory moment, learning about the presence, history, and culture of...
Things to do | Author Elizabeth Gilbert to kick off San Diego’s Writer’s Symposium by the Sea By Seth Combs February 18, 2024 at 2:01 p.m. When we think of a writer, most of us will envision a solitary figure at...
Things to do | Why Kristin Hannah decided to write about Vietnam War nurses in ‘The Women’ By Peter Larsen February 18, 2024 at 1:59 p.m. The idea to write about nurses in combat zones in the Vietnam War came easy,...
Things to do | Bestselling historical novelists team up as co-authors on ‘The Phoenix Crown’ By Pam Kragen February 12, 2024 at 5:23 p.m. Seven years ago, bestselling novelists Kate Quinn and Janie Chang met at a historical fiction...
Things to do | Local author, speaker rejects shame and silence for authenticity, empowerment By Lisa Deaderick February 3, 2024 at 2:01 p.m. Life is too short and Krystal Casey had dreams, one of which included writing a...
Things to do | Playwright Karen Zacarias digs under the skin of Gilded Age novel ‘The Age of Innocence’ By Pam Kragen February 2, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. Back in New York's Gilded Age of the 1870s, it was considered gauche to serve...
Things to do | 7 recommended reads that may help heal your connection with food By Carolyn Todd January 30, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. How is your relationship with food these days? For many of us, the honest answer...
Things to do | An 18th century midwife investigates evil doings in ‘gripping’ novel ‘The Frozen River’ By Malcolm Forbes January 16, 2024 at 2:59 p.m. In Ariel Lawhon's "The Frozen River," narrator Martha Ballard reveals how a person would navigate...
Things to do | Alcohol told him lies, but wellness coach and author found the truth when he quit drinking By Lisa Deaderick January 13, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. There were a lot of images and messaging about masculinity that Dustin Dunbar saw when...
Opinion | It’s OK to boldly go and purposely split an infinitive By Richard Lederer January 6, 2024 at 2:06 p.m. DEAR RICHARD: Now retired from 50 years of college teaching and having no more student...
Things to do | San Diego author Marilyn Woods loves being out of her comfort zone with second book, ‘After Goya’ By Lisa Deaderick January 6, 2024 at 2:01 p.m. There was a point during the pandemic shutdown when author Marilyn Woods noticed feeling emotionally...
Things to do | SoCal author hopes her new dystopian climate change novel makes readers think By Diya Chacko January 6, 2024 at 2:01 p.m. If you had the chance to escape the ravages of climate change by permanently joining...
Things to do | Looking ahead: Four books and one book event I can’t wait for in 2024 By Seth Combs December 30, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. One of the surprising takeaways from 2023 for me was witnessing just how many independent...
Things to do | Take on the library’s winter reading challenge and learn more about your community and identity By Kristina Davis December 29, 2023 at 10:45 p.m. SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Public Library is challenging readers of all ages to explore the...
Things to do | Year in review: Looking back at 5 stellar local books in 2023 By Seth Combs December 23, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. Much like the local music and theater scenes, San Diego’s thriving literary scene simply doesn't...
Things to do | Encinitas grants official poet laureate status to longtime Cardiff resident By Barbara Henry December 16, 2023 at 12:59 a.m. ENCINITAS — Encinitas now has an official Poet Laureate, and it’s the same person who was declared...
Things to do | How these San Diego kids books beat out bestselling authors like James Patterson, Anderson Cooper By Roxana Popescu December 16, 2023 at 12:34 a.m. Silver Dolphin Books, a San Diego book imprint you’ve probably never heard of, tucked into...
Things to do | La Jolla author’s guided journal helps travelers preserve their memories By Ashley Mackin-Solomon December 10, 2023 at 2:01 p.m. For those to whom travel has sentimental value or perhaps a beloved activity — whether...
Things to do | Human genome pioneer J. Craig Venter’s tales of his seafaring adventures are thrilling. His new book about them is less so By Gary Robbins December 10, 2023 at 2:01 p.m. In between bites of eggs Benedict, genome guru Craig Venter paused recently to share a...
Things to do | High-schooler wins this year’s matchbook (super) short story contest By Kristina Davis December 9, 2023 at 1:56 a.m. SAN DIEGO — In a mere three sentences, a San Diego high-schooler nailed the nostalgia of childhood,...
Things to do | After nearly 200 episodes, the ‘Backlisted’ podcast is nowhere close to running out of great books By Erik Pedersen November 23, 2023 at 10:00 p.m. For the past 8 years, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller have read and discussed books...
Entertainment | A 2023 gift guide that will strike a chord: 10 ideas for the music lover in your life By Maria Sherman December 4, 2023 at 12:23 a.m. LOS ANGELES — For the obsessive record collector or the casual listener, the shower singer or the...
Things to do | Pop art to ballet, reach for a coffee-table read when choosing holiday gifts By Leanne Italie December 3, 2023 at 11:57 p.m. NEW YORK — A good book packs power. A good book thoughtfully chosen as a gift can...
Things to do | Gifts for young readers: 11 books that teach kids about gratitude By Roxana Popescu November 19, 2023 at 2:11 p.m. These books aren’t all directly about gratitude. But they all offer a chance to chat...
Things to do | The best books – fiction and nonfiction – to give this holiday season By Seth Combs November 19, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. Giving books as a gift can be a gamble, but 2023 saw a slew of...
Things to do | 12 books by San Diego authors you can buy at local shops this holiday season By Seth Combs December 11, 2023 at 1:40 a.m. One could argue that nothing says you care more than giving a book as a...
Things to do | United Through Reading’s Storybook Ball By Staff Report December 2, 2023 at 1:30 a.m. United Through Reading hosted its 15th annual black-tie fundraiser Oct. 28 at the Hilton San...
Things to do | Matt Coyle’s 20-year Rick Cahill ‘Odyssey’ poised to conclude … or is it? By Seth Combs November 12, 2023 at 2:01 p.m. There’s a point toward the end of our interview where local novelist Matt Coyle admits,...
Things to do | Encinitas author’s novel ‘Out of the Darkness’ inspired by his ancestor’s American success story By Ashley Mackin-Solomon November 5, 2023 at 2:01 p.m. You never really know what you're going to find when you look into your family...
Things to do | Country troubadour reflects on 7 decades of songwriting By Andrew Dalton April 5, 2024 at 7:33 p.m. LOS ANGELES — Willie starts with the words. It's one of the surprising revelations in Willie Nelson's...
Things to do | From anxiety to creativity, UC San Diego professor discusses book on power of the mind By Lisa Deaderick October 28, 2023 at 4:09 a.m. It was Jaime Pineda’s first psychology class as a college freshman, in an auditorium of...
Things to do | How ‘Hild’ author Nicola Griffith mapped the life of her medieval ‘Menewood’ heroine By San Diego Union-Tribune October 22, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. Nicola Griffith makes a lot of maps.It’s an interest she discovered out of necessity while...
Things to do | ‘Pearls Before Swine’ comics creator branches out with new children’s novel By John Metcalfe October 22, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. Stephan Pastis is a lot of things — creator of the comic “Pearls Before Swine,”...
Things to do | Celebrating 75 years of In-N-Out, Southern California’s favorite homegrown burger chain By San Diego Union-Tribune October 20, 2023 at 1:03 p.m. Lynsi Snyder is the ultimate insider at In-N-Out Burger. But writing a history of the...
Things to do | Wimpy Kid’s ‘No Brainer’ library support tour arrives in San Diego on Oct. 23 By Erik Pedersen October 19, 2023 at 6:31 p.m. Imagine a game show where kids and librarians are the big winners — and instead...
Things to do | Can you write a short story in a few sentences? This San Diego contest would like to see you try. By Kristina Davis October 16, 2023 at 10:18 p.m. As William Shakespeare once wrote: "Brevity is the soul of wit." It would be a...
Things to do | ‘Leftover Woman’ author becomes unlikely lightning rod in book-banning campaign By San Diego Union-Tribune October 15, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. Chinese American novelist Jean Kwok is internationally known for her bestselling novels "Girl in Translation,"...
Things to do | Ocean Beach author conjures time travel and historical fiction in first novel By Regina Elling October 8, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. After a trip to Sicily, freelance writer Mary Knight was inspired to combine her love...
Entertainment | Patrick Stewart, a Shakespearean actor who soars in sci-fi, to discuss memoir in San Diego visit By Mark Kennedy November 23, 2023 at 9:59 p.m. NEW YORK — Patrick Stewart, who famously played a “Star Trek” captain, has boldly gone where no...
Things to do | ‘Laugh-In’ creator George Schlatter is ‘Still Laughing’ in new memoir By Peter Larsen October 1, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. George Schlatter was working in the mailroom at a talent agency when he first met...
Things to do | San Diego author, disability activist publishes memoir ‘My Unexpected Life’ By Pam Kragen September 24, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. Jennifer Gasner was 16 years old when she began noticing she would sway, stumble and...
Opinion | Elvis Presley, dairy farms, precursor to waterskiing found in ‘Forgotten San Diego’ By Lisa Deaderick September 22, 2023 at 10:59 p.m. The pictures, the visuals, can do a lot of heavy lifting in telling the history...
Opinion | From early vaqueros to 21st century: San Diego author explores history of ‘Latinxs in Hawaii’ By Lisa Deaderick September 20, 2023 at 5:56 p.m. It was during the research for his dissertation and first book that Rudy Guevarra Jr....
Things to do | ‘Rouge’: New novel set in La Jolla explores the gothic side of the beauty industry By Elisabeth Frausto September 17, 2023 at 12:01 p.m. To author Mona Awad, La Jolla is a bright gem of a location: a sunny...
Things to do | Judy Reeves listens to her heart, travels to Europe, learns to trust herself By Lisa Deaderick September 16, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. Anyone in San Diego who considers themselves a writer is probably familiar with Judy Reeves...
Things to do | Identity shenanigans and romance are the ‘Name’ of the game in new book By Denise Davidson September 12, 2023 at 2:25 a.m. Susan Lee compares writing her second novel, “The Name Drop,” to being in high school....
Things to do | Fall arts preview 2023: Our top book picks for the season By Seth Combs September 10, 2023 at 12:01 p.m. Bookworms will have plenty of pages to turn this season. Fun fact: publishing houses often...
Things to do | Fall arts preview 2023: Author Jennifer Peoples Hernandez explores the life of a legendary San Diego artist in definitive biography By Seth Combs September 10, 2023 at 12:01 p.m. Jennifer Peoples Hernandez’s husband and three children like to joke that Belle Baranceanu may as...
Things to do | ‘Hollywood Signs’ shines a light on L.A.’s forgotten visual landmarks By San Diego Union-Tribune September 3, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. You might know that Los Angeles’ most famous sign once read “Hollywoodland.”But did you know...
Things to do | The best places to read a book in San Diego County, according to 8 local authors By Maura Fox September 21, 2023 at 4:16 p.m. Leave it to a local wordsmith to know the best place in town to read...
Things to do | How Ozomatli turned its song ‘Moose on the Loose’ into a children’s book By Press Telegram August 30, 2023 at 8:11 p.m. After rocking a generation of kids with a children’s album back in 2012, Grammy-winning Los...
Things to do | The world’s mystery novelists and their superfans slinking into San Diego this week for Bouchercon By Michael Schaub August 29, 2023 at 1:45 p.m. In 2003, Naomi Hirahara walked through the doors of Bouchercon, the annual mystery and crime...
Things to do | Fall arts preview 2023: Britney and Barbra’s memoirs are among major releases, but political books are fewer By Hillel Italie September 7, 2023 at 5:47 p.m. NEW YORK — One year ahead of the 2024 election, don't expect many new books about the...
Things to do | 19th century American stories and literature come to life at annual TwainFest By Lisa Deaderick August 20, 2023 at 8:46 a.m. The theater bug first nibbled at Rachael VanWormer when she played Mary in her daycare...
Things to do | San Diego author and former Navy SEAL releases new action book, featured at Festival of Books By Lisa Deaderick August 12, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. The 1996 summer hit movie “The Rock” about a rogue group of military members threatening...
Things to do | In Encanto, The Mental Bar serves up coffee, culture and community By Hannah Ramirez August 10, 2023 at 10:08 p.m. When The Mental Bar opened toward the end of last year in San Diego's Black...
Things to do | Looking backward and forward: Memoir delves into family’s past to understand future By Denise Davidson August 6, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. Finding a dusty box of family letters inspired Debbie Russell, a lawyer turned author, to...
Entertainment | True crime fans can now obsess over San Diego and Tijuana in new novel, ‘Saving Myles’ By Hannah Ramirez August 3, 2023 at 7:56 p.m. After an award-winning debut novel, local author Carl Vonderau is back with his second novel, a...
Things to do | San Diego author Alberto Mansur finds ‘Peace’ writing novels By Seth Combs July 30, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. For Alberto Mansur, the writing has always been there. One could even say that the...
Things to do | Famed skateboarding photographer shares iconic images in Encinitas By Lisa Deaderick July 29, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. Sure, J. Grant Brittain could kick and push his way around on a skateboard, too,...
Things to do | Shake hands. Sell books. Avoid shark. What one Comic-Con day looks like for an up-and-coming creator By Blake Nelson August 14, 2023 at 6:04 p.m. Jasmine Walls had two hours to do three things.She needed to find a hotel room...
Things to do | La Jolla priest’s book details famed architect’s devotion By Elisabeth Frausto July 23, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. After years of looking up and around at renowned architect Irving Gill’s work, the Rev....
Things to do | How a $200 bet on comics gave a father and son careers in politics and film By Blake Nelson July 27, 2023 at 7:26 p.m. It was an intriguing offer. Two hundred dollars for the whole stock.Gary Kendrick was a...
Entertainment | He created one of the greatest graphic novels ever. Where do you go from there? By Blake Nelson July 19, 2023 at 6:25 p.m. Jeff Smith was on the cusp of waking and dreaming.After weeks on the road, with...
Opinion | Comic-Con is the star of a new comic book series By Diane Bell July 15, 2023 at 12:31 p.m. Comic-Con has just become the star of a new comic book series, "Com & On."It's...
Opinion | No two immigrant stories are the same. San Diego authors share journeys from Nigeria and Venezuela. By Lisa Deaderick July 9, 2023 at 7:28 p.m. Their journeys to the United States, their experiences since arriving here, and their relationships to...
Things to do | Sally J. Pla breaks the silence with novel about finding the normal for teens on the autism spectrum By Seth Combs July 9, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. Sally J. Pla always knew she was different. Like many adults of a certain age,...
Entertainment | As a queer artist, ‘our insistence on embracing ourselves, our joy and our love is something to celebrate’ By San Diego Union-Tribune July 9, 2023 at 12:01 p.m. Marisa (Mac) CraneProunouns: They/themAge: 33Birthplace: Allentown, Pa. Instagram: @marisa_craneQ: Tell us what it’s like living...
Things to do | Bestselling author of relationship books says she followed the signs to write her first novel By Seth Combs July 2, 2023 at 1:01 p.m. Arielle Ford is a big believer in signs. This shouldn’t come as too much of...
Things to do | New adult rom-com novel asks if it’s ‘Business or Pleasure,’ or both By Denise Davidson July 3, 2023 at 8:23 p.m. The plot of Rachel Lynn Solomon’s new novel, “Business or Pleasure,” was sparked by a...