For some people, retirement is a long-awaited chance to sleep late, relax and celebrate the joys of life without pressure or deadlines. A small publishing house called Light Messages reached out to Nancy Boyarsky, saying it wanted to re-publish “The Swap” and asking the writer if she could turn her heroine into a serial sleuth. A small North Carolina publishing …
In 1962, the Los Angeles Times’ managing editor, Frank McCulloch, assigned a white reporter named Paul Weeks — a passionate civil rights supporter — to cover Black Angelenos, whose numbers had burgeoned as African Americans migrated to California to work in defense plants. Prior to his assignment, Weeks recalled to retired Times city editor Bill Boyarsky for his book about …
