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“Crash into Me” is the novel that actress and author Robinne Lee says she always wanted to write. That’s not to say she isn’t proud of the mega success of her super sexy debut novel, “The Idea of You,” the story of a 40-year-old mom who takes her daughter to Coachella and ends up in a romance with a much-younger singer from a boy band. That 2017 release became a sleeper hit, gaining traction ...

Scott Broker is a queer writer, bookseller and teacher based in Los Angeles. His debut novel, “The Disappointment,” is in bookstores now. He responded to the Book Pages Q&A via email Q. Please tell readers about your new book. “The Disappointment” follows a grieving couple who go to the Oregon coast in hopes of finding some respite from their pain. They find many other things—a child ...

Victoria Chang says her new collection began with the loss of a neighborhood tree, but eventually grew to encompass a variety of influences, poems and art. Chang, the acclaimed author of books that include “OBIT,” “With My Back to the World” and “Dear Memory,” has just published this collection of poems, “Tree of Knowledge,” that explores a range of experiences that involve trees, art and a ...

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For “Cool Machine,” the 1980s-set final novel in his Harlem crime trilogy, Colson Whitehead drew inspiration from another classic American story. That’s right, “Die Hard.” While there aren’t any obvious parallels between the movie and his novel’s three sections, Whitehead says the idea of the 1988 blockbuster action film, which stars Bruce Willis as a New York City cop trying to make things ...

Look, it’s happened to all of us: Late one night, you’re on the couch, an overwhelming menu of Netflix shows radiates unwatched on the screen, and you snatch up a handheld repository of short, attention-grabbing items. A poetry collection. That could happen, right? Instead of pawing for your doomscrolling device, you could instead pick up a collection of poems, each one a distillation of ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The first challenge writer Craig Fehrman faced as he considered writing a book on the Lewis and Clark Expedition was whether there was enough fresh material to warrant the project. After poring over the journals of Merriweather Lewis and William Clark, a million words in all, Fehrman decided there was. “After I read the journals the first time, I ended up reading them at ...