The Kings of Cool

In Savages, Don Winslow spun a memorably hardboiled tale of love and loyalty among Southern California pot dealers. With the film adaptation of that arresting story about to hit theaters, his latest novel digs deeper into the events that brought Ben, Chon, and O together  -- and forced them to choose between their families and one another.

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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