Craving a slice of nostalgia? 🍏🥧 Watch this YouTube Short to learn how to make Mona Simpson’s famous Apple Pie from The ...

Mona Simpson, in her backyard with her dog Copperfield, in Santa Monica. Her newest novel, "Commitment," is inspired by her mother — and L.A. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) When I contact Mona ...

Editor’s Note: Read Mona Simpson’s new short story “Second Life.” Katherine Hu: In your short story “Second Life,” a young man named Donnie ends up in rehab, at the same hospital where his mother has ...

In Mona Simpson’s new novel, “Commitment,” a precariously functioning family fractures under the pressure of mental illness. Or does it? By Elisabeth Egan When you purchase an independently reviewed ...

COMMITMENT. By Mona Simpson. Alfred A. Knopf. 416 pages. $30. Mona Simpson’s latest novel “Commitment” is a minimalist masterpiece, exploring the large and small ways that a diagnosis of mental ...

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At the novel’s outset in 1973, Walter Aziz is 19 and leaving their SoCal tableau for college at Berkeley, Lina is 17 and an Ivy-ambitious junior, and Donnie is an inchoate 13. All three flaunt some ...

Writer Mona Simpson offers an intimate portrait of the late Apple co-founder in a moving New York Times op-ed piece. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since ...

When I contact Mona Simpson about setting up an interview timed to the publication of her new novel, “Commitment,” she replies in what can only be described as an extraordinary way. She suggests we ...

Mona Simpson’s latest novel “Commitment” is a minimalist masterpiece, exploring the large and small ways that a diagnosis of mental illness affects a family. In a story utterly devoid of car crashes, ...