Jin Dorst was known throughout the Palo Alto Unified School District for approaching those around her with the attitude that “each person is important, each person is unique. It’s a sense, more than ...

As Chris Dorst, silver medal around his neck, stood on the award stand with his U.S. water polo teammates at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, a wave of emotions washed over him. “A lot of mixed ...

In his wide-ranging, technically daring story collection, “The Surf Guru,” no occupation is too offbeat for Doug Dorst. Over the course of fragmented vignettes, an aging, entrepreneurial surfer ...

J.J. Abrams is the driving force behind many of today’s hottest sci-fi films, from Super 8 to Cloverfield to the recent Star Trek reboot. But his latest project is something completely different — a ...

Joshua Kendall, editorial director at Mulholland Books, took the reins at Little, Brown’s suspense imprint a year and half ago. One of his first duties was helming the J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst ...

Real estate means a lot in America -- ask the Indians. Or ask some of the first white Californians to be displaced by gentrification. They can’t answer, being dead. In 1900, San Francisco outlawed ...

“S,” the new mystery novel by J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst, may be the best-looking book I’ve ever seen. From the outside, it looks like an old library book, called “Ship of Theseus” and published, in ...

The first clue came in the form of an evocative trailer posted on YouTube this summer. In a lyrical black-and-white clip, a mysterious figure stumbled along a shadowy coastline, water lapping the sand ...