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We announce changes in book coverage here at the L.A. Times. Online, Books is a good destination; Jacket Copy too.

Michael Chabon talks about genre(s), and Jackie Collins talks about success.

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The Hero Complex blog covers Comic-Con.

Tim Rutten reviews the memoir Still Alive! A Temporary Condition by Herbert Gold, and Heller McAlpin looks at Doris Lessing’s fictionalized memoir Alfred & Emily.

David Ulin reviews the story collection Lost in Uttar Pradesh by Evan S. Connell.

James Thurber’s children’s books are celebrated, as are the birthdays of Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Chandler.

We find some bookshelves that are really secret doors (not secret anymore).

-- Carolyn Kellogg

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