Sep 08 2022: Barbara Ehrenreich, the journalist, activist and author, died at 81 on Thursday at a hospice facility in Alexandria, Va., where she also had a home. Her daughter, Rosa Brooks, said the cause was a stroke. She was the author of more than 20 books including Nickel and ...
Sep 08 2022: The six-title shortlist for the 2022 Booker Prize for Fiction has been announced, as has the 14-title long-list for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, which "highlights the very best of Canadian fiction."
Sep 08 2022: Sterling Lord, who for more than 60 years was one of New York's most successful and durable literary agents, died September 3. He was 102. The New York Times reported that although the list of well-known writers he represented is long, "his success began with an unknown...
Sep 03 2022: Writing for the BBC, Carolyn Atkinson explores the murky waters of the the UK bestseller lists:
Authors and publishers all want to sell enough books to have a bestseller. But is a bestseller always actually a bestseller? Not necessarily if a publisher has paid to get...
Sep 03 2022: An essay by Henry Reese, co-founder of City of Asylum Pittsburgh, which hosts persecuted and exiled writers:
Violence against writers was the topic I was about to interview the novelist Salman Rushdie about at the Chautauqua Institution on Aug. 12. We were being ...
Sep 01 2022: Norah Vincent, whose 2006 book, Self-Made Man, made her "a media darling" but "cost her psychologically," died July 6, the New York Times reported. She was 53. Her death, which was not reported at the time, was confirmed recently by Justine Hardy, a friend who said it ...
Aug 31 2022: In what defendants called "a total victory," a Virginia Beach Circuit Court judge yesterday dismissed the case brought earlier this year seeking to have Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer: A Memoir and Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Mist and Fury declared obscene and to bar Barnes...
Aug 26 2022: From Ron Charles' Washington Post Book Club:
Barnes & Noble is stuck in a public relations mess that it seems unable to clean up. A number of middle grade and YA authors claim that America's largest bookstore chain won’t carry their current or upcoming hardcover ...
Daughters of Shandong
by Eve J. Chung
Eve J. Chung's debut novel recounts a family's flight to Taiwan during China's Communist revolution.
This Strange Eventful History
by Claire Messud
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history.
Only the Brave by Danielle Steel
A powerful, sweeping historical novel about a courageous woman in World War II Germany.
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