This week's excellent reading recommendations include Tim Robey's Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops, which is a "gossipy delight" about commercial failures, some deservedly so, and some that were "misunderstood in their day"; and Dog Days by cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, filled with heartwarming vignettes that weigh "the desire to save every dog who needs help against the precarious and demanding ecosystem of a home already filled with furry friends." Plus, the picture book The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel, illustrated by Danny Snell, is a satisfying pet tale unlike any other as it tells "a weighty story about belonging."
In The Writer's Life, artist, educator, and author Ellie Yang Camp recalls the books that have influenced her as a reader and a writer, especially those that inspired her to write her first book, Louder Than the Lies: Asian American Identity, Solidarity, and Self-Love.