Johnson, student activist Madison Clevenger, parent and advocate Brooke Harper and historian Michael Hines for a virtual discussion about educational censorship in Southern California. “It felt like a full-circle moment.” This will be the second consecutive year the Literarian Award goes to a librarian last year’s honoree was Seattle author and librarian Nancy Pearl, who launched the common read movement.īook ban wave: Join author George M. “My grandparents both struggled with low literacy, and because of that they were avid that I would be a reader and a lover of books and ideas,” says Hall, now the executive director of the American Library Assn. No.”īattling book bans: With libraries under threat, the National Book Foundation’s annual Literarian Award goes to Watts-raised librarian Tracie D. writer Laura Warrell talks about the music and heartbreak that inspired her debut novel, “ Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm.”īooker Prizes: Los Angeles author and USC English professor Percival Everett is among six novelists who made the Booker Prize shortlist this week for his 2021 book, “ The Trees.” In a new interview, Everett discusses his upcoming book, “ Dr. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times Manuel Muñoz Todd Cooper / For The TimesLettering by Angela Southern, For The Timesįall preview picks: Check out 30 books we can’t wait for this fall, plus 10 new releases for your September reading list. Says Washington Post reviewer Carol Memmott, “What Moreno-Garcia really does, though, is explore who the real monsters are in the world.” “‘The Daughter of Doctor Moreau’ shifts the readers’ gaze to those often marginalized or completely ignored in literature and history - whether they be an independent-minded daughter absent from the original story, Doctor Moreau’s hybrid creatures or those Mayan rebels in 1870s Mexico.” “Unlike them, she is much more fully attuned to those long left out of such conversations (and books),” says Times reviewer Paula L. In the tradition of Wells and other early science-fiction writers, Moreno-Garcia also explores social upheaval in her work, but with probing, contemporary questions about fairness and equality. Wells classic relocated to the rainforests of the Yucatan Peninsula. Like her previous bestsellers, the story is a glorious mash-up of genres, a shapeshifting, atmospheric, historical science fiction novel.

This month we’re escaping to a remote Caribbean outpost with “The Daughter of Doctor Moreau,” the new thriller from Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia