Amy Tan is New Literary Editor of 'L.A. Times' Magazine

By: Amy Tan, who wrote ``The Joy Luck Club'' and other best-selling books, has been named literary editor of West, the Los Angeles Times' Sunday magazine, the newspaper said Thursday.

Tan, a California native who also wrote ``Saving Fish from Drowning'' and ``The Hundred Secret Senses,'' will help solicit fiction set in the Golden State for the magazine's ``California Story'' feature.

West magazine will replace the weekly Los Angeles Times Magazine beginning Feb. 5. The title marks a return to what the publication used in the mid-1960s and early 1970s.

``We're aiming to capture California in the grandest sense imaginable,'' said Rick Wartzman, editor of West.