Adichie focuses on Nigeria's present for new novel
The traffic is there, grinding life to a halt as the middle class pound out messages on BlackBerry mobile phones and worry about Facebook. The heat, ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald's handwritten ledger online
An intriguing peek into the daily scribbles and life of author F. Scott Fitzgerald is now available online, just weeks before the opening of the movie ...
Glenn Close's sister writing about mental illness
The youngest sister of actress Glenn Close is working on a memoir about her struggles with mental illness. Grand Central Publishing announced Friday ...
MTV piping up for 'Scream' series to air in 2014
MTV is getting ready to blast viewers with a brand-new "Scream." The network says it will produce a pilot for a TV-series adaptation of the wildly ...
Carville and Matalin working on joint memoir
James Carville and Mary Matalin, political rivals and personal bedfellows, are collaborating on a book in which they will again agree to disagree.
Richard Bausch wins $30,000 story prize
One of the country's top short story writers has won a $30,000 prize. Richard Bausch, author of eight story collections and winner of numerous other ...
Amazon.com's most well-read city: Alexandria, Va.
Alexandria, Va., and Knoxville, Tenn., are cities for readers, if not always the kinds of books your parents wanted you to read. Alexandria and ...
Jason Segel working on middle-grade book series
Jason Segel is becoming an author. The star of the TV series "How I Met Your Mother" and "Freaks and Geeks" has a deal with Random House Children's ...
Poet Maya Angelou recovering after hospitalization
One of Maya Angelou's doctors says the poet and author is recovering at her North Carolina home following a brief hospitalization. Dr. Jeff Williamson ...
Plane crash survivor Hannah Luce working on memoir
The sole survivor of a plane crash last year in Kansas is working on a memoir. Publisher Atria/Howard Books has told The Associated Press that Hannah ...
Diaz, Erdrich among finalists for Carnegie prize
Junot Diaz and Louise Erdrich are among the finalists for a literary prize chosen by the American Library Association. Diaz's "This Is How You Lose ...
Award-winning children's author Konigsburg dies
E.L. Konigsburg, an author who twice won one of the top honors for children's literature, has died. She was 83. Her son Paul Konigsburg says the ...
USA Today founder Neuharth dies in Florida at 89
Critics dubbed USA Today "McPaper" when it debuted in 1982, and they accused its founder, Al Neuharth, of dumbing down American journalism with its ...
Caro wins $10,000 history prize
Historian and author Robert Caro has won yet another award. Caro's latest Lyndon Johnson book, "The Passage of Power," has received the Mark Lynton ...
Pulitzer means jump in sales for fiction winner
After a year's hiatus, the Pulitzer Prize remains golden for fiction writers. Adam Johnson's "The Orphan Master's Son" was in the top 10 on Amazon.
Online nonprofit InsideClimate News wins Pulitzer
In a sign of a rapidly changing media world, a relatively unknown New York-based online nonprofit news site joined some of the country's most ...
Fiction Pulitzer returns and Adam Johnson wins it
Adam Johnson's "The Orphan Master's Son," a labyrinthine story of a man's travails in North Korea, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, restoring ...
Correction: Church Abuse-Religious Order story
In an April 14 story about confidential personnel files on Roman Catholic religious order priests, The Associated Press reported erroneously that such ...
Adam Johnson wins fiction Pulitzer
Adam Johnson's "The Orphan Master's Son," a labyrinthine story of a man's travails in North Korea, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, restoring ...
Zadie Smith on Granta best young novelists list
Newcomer Taiye Selasi and established best-seller Zadie Smith have been named to Granta magazine's list of best young British novelists — a ...
Widow of Ex-Navy SEAL contributes to his new book
The widow of Chris Kyle, the former Navy Seal and best-selling author shot dead in February, has contributed a foreword and afterword to a book her ...
Jonathan Coulton, Greg Pak pair up for comic book
Monkeys, robots and zombies? That's the hat trick that musician Jonathan Coulton and writer Greg Pak are featuring their original graphic novel, "Code ...
Alaska author wants to build writers' retreat
A best-selling mystery writer from Alaska wants to establish a residency retreat for female writers, hoping to offer women the same help she received ...
'Fifty Shades' to be added to blacklist
Here's a list "Fifty Shades of Grey" was destined to make: The books most likely to be removed from school and library shelves. On Monday, E L James' ...
Pope taps cardinals to advise on governing, reform
Pope Francis named eight cardinals from around the globe Saturday to advise him on running the Catholic Church and reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, ...
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