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The L.A. Novelist Who Doesn’t Get Her Due

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Jackie Collins, who wrote flashy, sex-filled Hollywood thrillers, isn’t often thought of as a canonical Los Angeles novelist. I didn’t regard her as one, at least—until I read Sophie Gilbert’s essay about Collins, the latest entry in The Atlantic’s series “The Writer’s Way.” Collins wrote shiny 1980s…