Originally published by James Altucher on LinkedIn: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet To Writing Your First Book My first four books were so bad, so arrogant, PUKE! And then I wrote and published 18 books ...

Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. This weekend’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books isn’t just the nation’s largest literary festival. It’s a unique ...

Afshin Gharib, a psychology professor at Dominican University of California, prefers to give open-book tests. His colleague William Phillips lets students use cheat sheets. After several arguments ...