Please be sure to check out the YouTube Video down below where we share the conversation/interview that James Ellroy had recently with the Mysterious Bookshop’s Tom Wickersham. At that event James Ellroy discusses his new book, WIDESPREAD PANIC: A NOVEL (Knopf).
Be sure to check out this recent episode of THE MODERN ART NOTES PODCAST, Episode No. 507, because it features authors Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan; and Kathryn Brown. Stevens and Swan are the co-authors of the biography “Francis Bacon: Revelations”, a broad-ranging look at the British artist’s life and work. It was recently published by Knopf. Stevens and Swan’s 2005 biography of Willem de Kooning won a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Kathryn Brown is the […]
On September 21, 2021, BAM! BOOKS-A-MILLION is THE place to get a SIGNED COPY of the brand-new Hardback, VANDERBILT: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN DYNASTY by Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe! Here’s a LINK where you can preorder your copy(s). Due to Limited Stock, Multi-Copy Orders May be Reduced to 5 Copies Per Household. The Price is $30 per book & BAM! CLUB Members get Free Shipping!
Tennis legend Billie Jean King joins L.A. Book Club Readers Aug. 24 to discuss “All In” with Times executive sports editor Christian Stone. About this event: Special offer: A limited number of autographed copies of “All In” are available for L.A. Times Book Club readers. Order your signed book — with a Los Angeles Times Book Club tote — before they sell out. Use the ticket link below. Billie Jean King’s memoir recounts her childhood growing up in Long Beach, […]
In this latest episode of THE BOOK SHOW PODCAST we get to hear from the Modern Master of Noir, James Ellroy. He talks about his new novel “Widespread Panic” (Knopf) which is mostly about the malevolent monarch of the 1950’s Hollywood Underground. This book has just been released & is in Bookstores right now! The novel is a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with Communist Conspiracies, FBI Finks, Celebrity Smut Films, and Strange Bedfellows… Classic Ellroy!! […]
Remember, in the near future (Sept 21, 2021), you need to keep an eye out for “VANDERBILT: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN DYNASTY” by Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe (Harper). New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts. When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat […]
Gabino Iglesias, an Author & Book Reviewer over at the NPR BOOK REVIEWS Page, has written an awesome book review for James Ellroy’s latest book, WIDESPREAD PANIC: A NOVEL (Knopf). This book just came out & is in stores now, so it’s perfect timing for this, ha ha! Thanks Mr. Iglesias & Congrats to James Ellroy! To Read The Book Review Just CLICK HERE!
Here’s some exciting news for Fans of the Author, David A. Price. His latest book, “Geniuses at War : Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age (Knopf)”, has been given a wonderful Book Review over at PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ! Congrats David!! If you’re interesting in World War II British Military History & the early days of Digital Computers then please be sure to give this review a quick read! Here’s a LINK to go check it […]
Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and investigative reporter who was one of the first to warn of global pandemics. In his latest book, “The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID (Knopf, Book Cover Design by Chip Kidd),” Wright shares what he’s learned from studying the origins, the politics and the ongoing threats of the pandemic and what that means for Americans and the world. In the YouTube Video down blow Lawrence Wright joins Washington Post […]
On June 22nd, 2021 Andrea Grossman, over at THE WRITER’S BLOC PRESENTS website, got a bunch of Panelists together (YouTube Video down below) to celebrate James Ellroy’s latest book , WIDESPREAD PANIC: A NOVEL (Knopf). There is also a limited-supply of Signed Copies over at CHEVALIER’S BOOKS. James Ellroy, author of L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia, and other great novels about Los Angeles crime and punishment, has just released a new novel about L.A. Cops, Celebrities, and Scandal Mongers. […]