Meg Zukin

California, New York

Audience Editor at TIME

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Articles

Pack these books for Coachella: Your music festival reading lineup

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Meg Zukin

“Whether you’re heading out to Indio, or enjoying the annual exodus of Angelenos, here are some books that give Coachella Valley vibes,” writes Meg Zukin. Calling all bookworms! Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. It’s festival season. And no, I don’t just mean The Times’ Festival of Books happening at the end of the month ( see you at my panel…? ). I’m also talking about and, unfortunately, .
The 10 best memoirs of the 2020s, from Mariah Carey to Michelle Zauner

1 month ago | asianamericans.einnews.com | Meg Zukin

Calling all bookworms! Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Calling all bookworms! Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Meg. I write shut up and read, a book newsletter. I’m also on BookTok. I just flew through Amy Griffin’s “The Tell.” Her memoir — a powerful investigation of repressed memories, sexual trauma and the quest for perfection — took me less than two days to finish. Instead of walking to the gym, I took the train, just so I could have more time to read.
Omar El Akkad didn't think his memoir would ever get published. It’s one of 2025’s buzziest releases

1 month ago | latimes.com | Meg Zukin

“I was trying to contend with a sense of deep uncertainty relative to my own position,” author Omar El Akkad says of his memoir, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This.”Calling all bookworms! Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Meg. I write “ ,” a book newsletter. I’m also on . This week, we speak with Egyptian Canadian journalist-turned-author Omar El Akkad, whose memoir-manifesto “One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This” came out on Feb. 25.
What's 'romantasy'? What's a cool girl? The internet’s favorite book genres

2 months ago | latimes.com | Meg Zukin

Authors like Rebecca Yarros and Sarah J. Maas are fueling the romantasy genre and inspiring launch parties, like the one above celebrating the midnight release of “Iron Flame,” the second book in Yarros’ Empyrean series. Calling all bookworms! Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Meg. I write , a book newsletter.
A book lover's best-kept secret: the Substacks and BookToks every reader should know

2 months ago | latimes.com | Meg Zukin

Get ready to build out your TBR list. We look at the online communities fueling the book world. Calling all bookworms! Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Meg. I write , a book newsletter. I am also known to wade into the waters of on occasion. Books are hot right now — Dua Lipa has a book club, as do Dakota Johnson, Kaia Gerber, Emma Roberts, Emma Watson and Florence Welch, and that’s in addition to heavy-hitters Oprah Winfrey, Jenna Bush Hager and Reese Witherspoon.
A Los Angeles Teen Started a Recovery Fund for Wildfire Victims. Now It’s a Movement

Jan 12, 2025 | flipboard.com | Meg Zukin

NowAmy Graff and Jonathan Wolfe reported from Los Angeles, and Claire Moses from Orange County, Calif. Los Angeles firefighters were scrambling to contain several blazes as winds picked up on Saturday afternoon, threatening to further spread fires, as the death toll rose to 16 people. The county’s …
A Los Angeles Teen Started a Recovery Fund for Fire Victims

Jan 12, 2025 | yahoo.com | Meg Zukin

Avery Colvert, 14, has started a movement with her "Altadena Girls" Instagram page, which aims to help her peers impacted by the L.A. fires. Credit - Dunja Dumanski at Small Green Door Avery Colvert, 14, never imagined her recovery fund for the teenage victims of the Eaton Fire, one of multiple blazes raging in Los Angeles County, would go viral, but less than 24 hours after its creation, it did just that. Paris Hilton posted about Altadena Girls on her Instagram story. Then Mindy Kaling.
'Martyr!' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

Nov 13, 2024 | time.com | Meg Zukin |Kaveh Akbar

These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. By Meg ZukinNovember 13, 2024 8:25 AM ESTIn Kaveh Akbar’s debut novel, a National Book Award finalist, Cyrus Shams is sleepwalking through life. He’s a poet, newly sober, obsessed with death, and deeply depressed. When Cyrus was an infant, his mother boarded a plane in Tehran to visit her brother in Dubai.
'Perfume and Pain' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

Nov 13, 2024 | time.com | Meg Zukin |Anna Dorn

These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser.
'The Coin' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

Nov 13, 2024 | time.com | Meg Zukin |Yasmin Zaher

These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. By Meg ZukinNovember 13, 2024 8:06 AM ESTYasmin Zaher’s debut, The Coin, is a surreal trip of a novel about one woman’s pain and isolation, along with her compulsive cleaning obsession and Birkin bag-selling scheme. The protagonist is a wealthy Palestinian woman living in Brooklyn whose inheritance is all tied up.