Tag: Books and literature

Jodi Picoult’s ‘Nineteen Minutes’ tops PEN America of books banned in schools

NEW YORK -- Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her…

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‘The pictures, they look at you.’ A stroll with novelist John Banville through Spain’s Prado Museum

MADRID -- It’s the eyes peering from the canvases that get him,…

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At age 97, pioneering Black businessman George E. Johnson has finally written his memoir

NEW YORK -- As he approached his mid-90s, pioneering Black businessman George…

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Tina Knowles to tell her story in ‘Matriarch,’ a memoir scheduled for next year

NEW YORK -- Tina Knowles will have a memoir out next spring…

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Nick Harkaway steps into his father John le Carré’s footsteps with spy thriller ‘Karla’s Choice’

LONDON -- LONDON (AP) — George Smiley, the subtle fictional spymaster navigating…

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Entertainment and lifestyle titan Barry Diller will have memoir out next spring

NEW YORK -- Barry Diller has a memoir coming out next spring,…

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Percival Everett’s ‘James’ wins $50,000 Kirkus Prize for fiction

NEW YORK -- Percival Everett's novel “James,” his acclaimed reworking of “The…

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Nobel Prize in literature awarded to South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose"

Nobel Prize in literature awarded to South Korean author Han Kang “for…

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Reese Witherspoon is teaming with bestseller Harlan Coben on her first suspense novel

NEW YORK -- Reese Witherspoon's latest literary news marks a new direction…

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Salman Rushdie, Percival Everett and Miranda July are National Book Award finalists

NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie's memoir a bout…

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Book Review: Crystal King combines food, myths and surrealism with ‘In the Garden of Monsters’

Salvador Dali hires a young artist with a striking similarity to the…

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Book Review: Sally Rooney’s latest novel ‘Intermezzo’ examines unacknowledged grief

Ivan and Peter Koubek’s father has just died, but neither seems willing…

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Rare G.K. Chesterton essay on mystery writing is itself a mystery

NEW YORK -- When he wasn't working on mystery stories, and he…

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Jimmy Carter receives Holbrooke award from Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation

NEW YORK -- Less than two weeks before his 100th birthday, former…

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Apple Books charts for week ending Sept. 16

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Percival Everett, Rachel Kushner and Miranda July are fiction nominees for National Book Awards

Percival Everett’s “James,” his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of…

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Florida school district must restore books with LGBTQ+ content under settlement

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. -- A school district in northeast Florida must put…

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Book Review: Brathwaite flexes his writing chops and expands Black literary canon with debut ‘Rage’

There was a class at my university called Black Arts, Black Power.…

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Book Review: ‘Category Five’ examines superstorms amid compelling personal memoir

Books about climate change are a dime a dozen these days, but…

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