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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 E. Johnson unexpectedly found himself determined — even…

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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 with a title that will not surprise her…

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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, covering a life that could fill multiple volumes.…

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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 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” has won a $50,000…

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Movie Review: A transcendent Saoirse Ronan illuminates true-life addiction drama ‘The Outrun’

At some point during “The Outrun,” it occurred to me that watching Saoirse Ronan act is a bit like looking…

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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 his near-fatal stabbing, “Knife,” and Percival Everett's revisionist…

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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 completed hundreds, G.K. Chesterton liked to think of…

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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 Huckleberry Finn,” is a fiction nominee for the…

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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. Lester Fabian Brathwaite’s “Rage” would fit snugly right…

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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 a new one by Porter Fox, who grew…

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Percival Everett, Louise Erdrich and Jason Reynolds among finalists for $50,000 Kirkus Prizes

Percival Everett’s “James,” a reworking of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the enslaved Jim’s perspective, is among…

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Publisher plans massive ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ reprints to meet demand for VP candidate JD Vance’s book

This book cover image released by HarperCollins Publishers shows "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,"…

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