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April 15, 2019

Steve Martin collaborating on 'ultimate cartoon book'

Steve Martin could not be happier about his latest book and about the chance to work with New Yorker artist Harry Bliss.

April 09, 2019

Review: Rachel Howzell Hall writes a breakout novel

"They All Fall Down" (Forge) by Rachel Howzell Hall After four well-received novels about LAPD homicide cop Elouise "Lou" ...

April 04, 2019

Ruth Reichl chats about chicken soup and Gourmet magazine

Memoirist no more? It's hard to believe, but "Save Me the Plums" just might be the last such narrative for Ruth Reichl.

April 03, 2019

New 'Pet Sematary' takes a deeper exploration of grief

The new "Pet Sematary " has familiar elements of Stephen King's classic 1983 novel and previous film, namely the haunted ...

April 02, 2019

Review: 'Island of Sea Women' pits friendship versus tragedy

"The Island of Sea Women (Scribner), by Lisa See. Ten years ago, Lisa See was sitting in a doctor's office leafing through ...

April 01, 2019

Review: After a slow start, Max Allan Collins' novel soars

"Girl Most Likely" by Max Allan Collins (Thomas & Mercer) For a novel with a grisly murder in the short first chapter, Max ...

March 21, 2019

10 emerging writers receive $50,000 Whiting grants

Poet Tyree Daye will finally have some time to really write, and not think too much about money. "I can take the summer off ...

March 19, 2019

Tommy Orange wins PEN/Hemingway Award for debut novel

Novelist Tommy Orange keeps winning awards. PEN America announced Tuesday that the author of "There There," the most honored ...

March 12, 2019

'Mockingbird' author compared hometown to Elvis' Graceland

"To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee railed against her Alabama hometown for trying to exploit her success in a letter ...

March 05, 2019

Pete Townshend novel, 'The Age of Anxiety,' out in November

The Who's Pete Townshend, the man who helped invent the rock opera, has now written a rock novel. Hachette Books announced ...

March 02, 2019

Charles McCarry, prescient spy novelist, dead at 88

Charles McCarry, an admired and prescient spy novelist who foresaw passenger jets as terrorist weapons in "The Better Angels" ...

February 28, 2019

Young adult novel pulled amid online criticisms

The author of a debut young adult novel has pulled his book amid criticism of how it portrayed the Kosovo War of the late ...

February 28, 2019

Anthony Doerr among editors for 2019 'Best American' series

Prize-winning authors Anthony Doerr, Carmen Maria Machado and Jonathan Lethem are among this year's guest editors of Houghton ...

February 27, 2019

New Philip Pullman 'Book of Dust" novel coming Oct. 3

Philip Pullman's next novel will bring us an older and more independent Lyra Silvertongue, his longtime literary heroine.

February 26, 2019

Sequel to Michael Crichton's 'Andromeda Strain' due in fall

The late Michael Crichton's literary archive and production company has authorized a sequel to his breakthrough novel "The ...

February 21, 2019

'Pike Logan' author Brad Taylor signs with new publisher

"Pike Logan" novelist Brad Taylor has a three-book deal with a new publisher. William Morrow, a HarperCollins Publishers ...

February 19, 2019

W.E.B. Griffin, prolific military novelist, dead at age 89

W.E.B. Griffin, the prolific and best-selling author of military novels, has died at age 89. Griffin, whose real name was ...

February 15, 2019

'Small Island' author Andrea Levy dies of cancer aged 62

Andrea Levy, a prize-winning novelist who chronicled the hopes and horrors experienced by the post-World War II generation ...

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February 12, 2019

Daughters of George W. Bush to co-host author breakfast

Presidential daughters-granddaughters Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush will be hosting a breakfast during this ...