Sam Worley

Just to get it out of the way, here is the basic plot of "The Bone Clocks" — the bare frame on which its many elaborate back stories hang: War...

At the beginning of "The Magician's Land," the last in Lev Grossman's otherworldly and excellent "Magicians" trilogy, our hero finds himself in a crappy strip-mall bookstore in New Jersey, awaiting...

Much drama has befallen California this year. And not only in real life — that endless drought — but in fiction, as authors have made the Golden State the site...

Joan Didion began her career chronicling a certain ennui afflicting Californians coming up in the Vietnam era who were quickly losing faith in the society their parents created. She sympathized:...

Thomas Greene Wiggins was a sensation. A child pianist of prodigious talent, he performed at the White House at age 11, toured widely and helped raise money for the Confederate...

At the beginning of his new quasi-memoir, "Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America," filmmaker Waters asks the question that, really, is at the hopeful heart of this endeavor: "Is all...

At the beginning of his new quasi-memoir, "Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America," filmmaker Waters asks the question that, really, is at the hopeful heart of this endeavor: "Is all...