LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZES 2023

The winners of the 43rd Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced yesterday. 

Winners in three special categories previously announced. 

  

James Ellroy: Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement

The American Library Assn.’s Freedom to Read Foundation: Innovator’s Award

Javier Zamora: Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose. 

Ellroy, who will accept the Robert Kirsch Award for bodies of work focused on the American West, is best known for his L.A.-based crime novels such as “L.A. Confidential” and “The Black Dahlia” — both part of his bestselling L.A. Quartet. Ellroy also has written an investigative memoir, “My Dark Places,” as well as dozens of novels, many of them adapted into films, graphic novels and podcasts. “We are pleased to recognize L.A. noir iconoclast James Ellroy with this year’s Kirsch Award,” said Times Books Editor Boris Kachka. “James’ writing life was shaped by the tragic, unsolved murder of his mother when he was 10, fostering an obsession with crime and the underworld that has animated his fiction and nonfiction across the decades.” 

Of particular interest to readers of this blog:. Congratulations to all. 

Mystery/Thriller

Alex Segura, Secret Identity 

Also Nominated

 

Rachel Howzell Hall, We Lie Here: A Thriller 

Laurie R. King, Back to the Garden 

Tracey Lien, All That’s Left Unsaid 

Peng Shepherd, The Cartographers 

Biography

Beverly Gage, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction

Nicola Griffith, Spear

See Winners in all Categories here

Anthropologie's $2,175 book set -- and how to get it for $250

From the L.A. Times: Anthropologie's $2,175 book set -- and how to get it for $250
What do six books in a custom-made wooden case add up to? A $2,175 price tag at Anthropologie. Just six books. And that's not all -- here's the catalog copy:

A one-of-a-kind set in a custom-made case, curated by Kinsey Marable, who left his job as an investment banker to deal with a more exotic commodity: rare and out-of-print books. His passion to create distinctive libraries led him to select these books; the mahogany-stained Baltic birch bookshelf is custom built for the custom collection.

Because the set is custom-made for the books included, and the books are used, Anthropologie has just a handful available; each is organized by theme. The $2,175 "society" set is the most expensive. The "drinks" set is several hundred dollars cheaper -- at $1,400, the buyer can afford a few bottles of special edition Dom Perignon, 40-some 12-packs of Pabst Blue Ribbon, or anything in between.

Build your own version of Anthropologie's custom book sets for less than $250!

Read the rest of the article from the L.A. Times to learn how to make your own for $250 HERE.