1+ hour, 5+ min ago   (392+ words) Best-selling romance writer Emily Giffin calls Marin author Laura Marie Meyers' "The MASH Up" an "irresistible, page-turning treat from first laugh to last swoon." It's high praise for Meyers' debut as a fiction writer. That, and more raves for the…...

6+ hour, 14+ min ago   (186+ words) There are numerous versions of "The Girl of the Golden West," a Gold Rush-set tale of one woman's loves, trials and tribulations in a California mining town in 1849. Now, there's a new English translation by Thomas Clark onstage in Pacifica…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (190+ words) These are among the new titles with local themes or released by local writers, listed in alphabetical order by author names: "The Lie: A Novel" by Jude Berman She Writes Press, 360 pages, $17.99, Aug. 4, 2026 "Thanks for Meeting Me Here" by Jill…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (228+ words) SFGATE “Sentences and passages flash us with beauty or leave us reeling with laughter," the judges' citation reads in part "There is so much pain in the book and yet there is no self-pity, instead there is a marvelous…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (599+ words) The case went viral after the publisher issued a statement saying it asked Claude, an AI chatbot, whether artificial intelligence was used to create “The Serpent in the Grove” by Jamir Nazir. He was one of five writers who on…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (220+ words) John Green’s first novel in nearly a decade is also a kind of debut — a work of fiction for adults. The author of such favorites for young people as “The Fault in Our Stars” and “Looking for Alaska” has written…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (255+ words) Oprah Winfrey has chosen Maria Semple's comic novel “Go Gentle” for her book club. The story follows a Stoic philosopher and single mother facing challenges to her way of life. Winfrey praised the... “For all those who crave a good…...