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Wordplay, Weirdness and a Guest Appearance by Clint Eastwood

He Dreamed Up Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer. It All Started With L.A.

How Do You Like Your History? With Imaginative Leaps or Grounded in Fact?

How Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wrote Her Way Through Loss

Don’t Tell, but Mark Greaney Is No Fan of ‘Goldfinger’

An Esteemed Biographer Puts Her Own Life in the Spotlight

Elinor Lipman Wants to ‘Get My Characters Out of the House’

Millicent Dillon, Chronicler of Jane and Paul Bowles, Dies at 99

Hanif Kureishi Wonders What Dostoyevsky’s Characters Did in Bed

Books on Drug Trafficking, and Kant, Line Adam Haslett’s Shelves

Gay Talese Keeps Notes, Especially on Everyone’s Clothes

Writing Fantasy Came Naturally. Reality Was Far More Daunting.

Graham Norton Isn’t Insulted to Be Called an ‘Undemanding’ Writer

Encyclopedia Brown Got Alafair Burke Started on Crime Fiction

Pregnant With One Child and 295,233 Words

Stanley Booth, Music Journalist Who Loved the Blues, Dies at 82

Michel del Castillo, 91, Dies; Child’s-Eye Chronicler of Concentration Camps

‘The Mark Leyner Reader’ Doesn’t Mean Mark Leyner Is Done Writing

This Book Tour Comes With a Side of Fried Rice

S.E. Hinton Leans on Dave Barry for Post-Election Comfort