Lorne Michaels biography: Best stories about ‘SNL’ creator
On the Shelf Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live By Susan MorrisonRandom House: 656 pages, $36If you buy books linked on our site,…
A new Anne Frank biography embraces her wide-ranging legacy
Book Review The Many Lives of Anne Frank By Ruth FranklinYale University Press: 440 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times…
A Clayton Kershaw biography and more baseball book recommendations
Good morning and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m novelist and punk historian Jim Ruland, and this week we’re celebrating America’s pastime.…
How Keith Haring’s art transcended his untimely death
Book Review Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring By Brad GoochHarperCollins: 512 pages, $40 If you buy books linked on our site, The…
Jim Beard dead: Steely Dan keyboardist was 63
Keyboardist Jim Beard, who spent more than a decade of his life playing for rock group Steely Dan, has died. The band, formed by Walter…
Adam Shatz on his new biography of radical thinker Frantz Fanon
On the Shelf The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon By Adam ShatzFSG: 464 pages, $32 If you buy books linked on our…