Log inStart free trialBook a demo
Log inStart free trial
Media Database
>
Boris Kachka

Boris Kachka

Books Editor at Los Angeles Times

Contact this person
Email address
b*****@*******.comGet email address
Influence score
55
Phone
(XXX) XXX-XXXX Get mobile number
Location
United States
Languages
  • English
Covering topics
  • Books

View more media outlets and journalists by signing up to Prowly

View latest data and reach out all from one place
Sign up for free

Recent Articles

latimes.com

Book Club: Venita Blackburn on flash fiction and more - Los Angeles Times

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times, and I’m in the mood for fiction — lots of it. Fortunately, my TBR pile is freshly stocked for 2024. New work from Claire Messud? Sheila Heti? Tommy Orange? Anne Carson? Percival Everett? Helen Oyeyemi? Yes, please and thank you. Most enticing of all are the debuts. Yes, publishing loves an upstart phenom, and too many second and third books by brilliant authors are s…
almost 2 years ago
latimes.com

Book Club: Our books critics' 2023 year-end thoughts, predictions -...

Good morning, happy holidays and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times, and I’m looking forward to 2024 — not only because I have to work on New Year’s Eve. The turn of the calendar brings a new publishing season and, soon enough, the leadup to the best book event of the year. In the waning days of the December lull, I reached out to Times contributing critics for closing thoughts on 2023 and predictions for the year ahea…
almost 2 years ago
latimes.com

Remembering big-hearted writer Gabe Hudson - Los Angeles Times

Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times, and even though Thanksgiving has come and gone, I’m still thinking about gratitude. I’m grateful for Gabe Hudson. A former Marine reservist, he was the author of the 2002 collection “Dear Mr. President,” an octet of dark, hilariously surreal stories that might be the best fiction about the first Gulf War. Hudson died on Nov. 23 at age 52. His memorial service was livestr…
about 2 years ago
latimes.com

14 essential books for understanding the Israel-Hamas war ... - Los...

Decades before the latest eruption of war in Israel and Gaza that began with Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre — and well before Internet algorithms amplified misinformation — the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was already a source of confusion, competing claims, Rashomon-like narrative clashes. Even basic facts seem to defy confirmation or debunking. Nonetheless, we are obligated to try to understand, and books are the best place to start. To build a preliminary reading list in hopes of covering as much ter…
about 2 years ago
latimes.com

6 memoirs to put you in a Palestinian's shoes - Los Angeles Times

Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times. I’m thinking about how important it is right now for people to be able to imagine the lives of others. Fortunately, there is a centuries-old technology for that. Someone else who’s been thinking about this for a long time is Karim Doumar, the Times’ head of newsletters. This week, I asked if he would write about a particular reading passion of his — Palestinian memoirs.…
about 2 years ago
latimes.com

Best nonfiction books to gift this season - Los Angeles Times

Call it Peak Gift Book: For whatever reason (perhaps pandemic delays), 2023 has witnessed a major nonfiction groundswell of memoirs, biographies and cultural histories that are both substantial and a lot of fun. The pop revolutions of the 20th century work their way through biographies of Madonna and Lou Reed, memoirs by Sly Stone and Werner Herzog, histories of High Times magazine and Toni Morrison’s brilliant circle. More recent books trace the rise of streaming TV, cool beauty products, Ameri…
about 2 years ago
latimes.com

How a Black literary critic learned to love Black horror - Los Ange...

Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times, and as Halloween and Día de Muertos creep ever closer, I’m thinking about the simple pleasures of a good jump scare. One of the clearest trends of the last 25 years has been the increased popularity and richness of speculative fiction — and all its subgenres — as a medium for telling the stories of people whom literature had long marginalized. This week, Times contributo…
about 2 years ago
latimes.com

Book Club: Nathan Thrall on dehumanization of the Israel-Hamas war ...

Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times, and I can’t stop thinking about dehumanizing violence. That’s because I’ve been following the news, and also reading Nathan Thrall’s gut-wrenching new book, “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama.” A “Rashomon”-like deep dive into a school bus crash in the West Bank that killed six children and one teacher — and the ways it was compounded by a dysfunctional status quo for Isr…
about 2 years ago
latimes.com

Kerry Washington, Julia Fox claim they wrote their own memoirs - Lo...

Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times, and I’ve been thinking about celebrities who write. It’s celebrity-memoir season. This week alone, we’ve learned a lot about Kerry Washington (who shared some real talk with Times culture writer Marissa Evans) and fashion-meme and Kanye ex Julia Fox (subject of a gripping profile by contributor Ilana Kaplan). Over the next six weeks, we’ll see the confessions of Amy Schn…
about 2 years ago
latimes.com

Isaacson's 'Elon Musk' bio rollout and more books highlights - Los ...

Simon & Schuster and Walter Isaacson mastered the controlled chaos required to land a book with a splash.
over 2 years ago
latimes.com

The Myriam Gurba you didn't know, plus Fall Preview highlights - Lo...

Famous for taking down ‘American Dirt,’ writer Myriam Gurba has much more to offer. Outtakes and impressions from our profile and more Fall Preview highlights
over 2 years ago
latimes.com

Highlights of Sunday's Festival of Books: Katie Porter, Joan Baez, ...

For your Book Festival Sunday, six key panels to check out: Katie Porter, Walter Mosley, Joan Baez, Stacey Abrams, Susanna Hoffs and a panel on banned books
over 2 years ago
latimes.com

The 26 best books about Los Angeles, ranked - Los Angeles Times

The 95 contributors to our Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf agreed on many essential books. Here are the 26 best of the best, each receiving at least 7 votes — ranked
over 2 years ago
latimes.com

Best nonfiction books to gift this season - Los Angeles Times

These 15 nonfiction books will please every reader on your list this holiday season, whether they prefer memoirs, histories or essay collections.
about 3 years ago