We’ve got Bloomsday, the annual celebration of “Ulysses.” Want to be a punk rock poet? There’s more: The Try Guys encourage us all to fail, Mona Awad serves up delicious satirical horror, and there’s no denying the raw might of James Ellroy. James Joyce would say there’s a papa in all of us: “Every life is in many days, day after day. "Bunny" by Mona Awad. Hempel Chronicles,” a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award, and “Madeleine Is Sleeping,” a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 14, 2019 18:31 UTC