The book takes its name from “Origin Story,” one of the stories in the book. “It seemed to me that many of the stories were grappling with where we come from, the sort of inexorable pull of memory, and that it really applied thematically beyond the boundary of the single story, thus the slight tweak for the title of the collection,” she says.

Actor Steve Carell partnered with a charity, Alice’s Kids, to send hundreds of Southern California kids impacted by the recent devastating wildfires to prom for free.

Southern California climbed to No. 2 in the Associated Press Top 25 women's basketball poll Monday, its highest ranking in 39 years. Star guard JuJu Watkins and the Trojans (26-2)