Stories in this Regional News Roundup are excerpted from weekly newspapers from around the region. This is part two, with part one having appeared in Saturday’s Tribune.

Scottish journalist and author Andrew O’Hagan talks about why the social novel still matters- and why good books are as essential as protein.

Watch CNN Original Series “Billionaire Boys Club,” detailing the greed-fueled landscape of 1980s Los Angeles where a group of young, ambitious men set out to make their fortune — but their lavish ...