Uh-oh. The Los Angeles Times has folded its stand-alone Sunday book review section. The paper also laid off two of its five staff reviewers and has moved future book coverage to the Calendar section, according the Publishers Weekly. The news is the latest in a long line of bad news for American literary culture. The Tribune Co.-owned daily follows newspapers nationwide that have shuttered book sections entirely, absorbed them into other sections, or outright fired book editors, including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Dallas Morning News, and the Chicago Tribune. Fortunately, the City of Angels still has the Festival of Books every year, which the L.A. Times presents. —Susan Cohen
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