Article: L.A. Weekly Explores Coming of Age on the Page; L.A. Weekly's Annual Literary Supplement Surveys the Season's Most Exciting Debuts - From First-Time Authors Plum Sykes, David Bezmozgis, Luisita Lopez Torregrosa and More. Plus, Renowned Novelist Jeffrey Eugenides Takes the Poison of Oscar Wilde's Lone Novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

LOS ANGELES, May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- "Reading [my favorite writers'] first books is like coming across the childhood photos of a sweetheart," writes L.A. Weekly's John Powers. "While a handful look exactly like the grown-up selves we already know (Hemingway was always Hemingway), and others seem like vastly different people (who knew V.S. Naipaul would get so sniffy?), the vast majority display almost-familiar features still in the process of being formed."

L.A. Weekly's 2004 Weekly Literary Supplement, or WLS, is all about debuts -- novels, short fiction and memoirs by an array of new authors, from the Nigerian-born Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, whose Purple ...

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