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Salman Rushdie's memoir about his stabbing, 'Knife,' is a National Book Award nominee

Salman Rushdie's memoir about his stabbing, 'Knife,' is a National Book Award nominee

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Salman Rushdie's 鈥淜nife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder,鈥 his explicit and surprisingly resilient memoir about his brutal stabbing in 2022, is a nominee for the National Book Awards.
$10,000 literary award named for the late author Gabe Hudson goes to Ayana Mathis' 'The Unsettled'

$10,000 literary award named for the late author Gabe Hudson goes to Ayana Mathis' 'The Unsettled'

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 A $10,000 literary award named for the late author-editor-podcaster Gabe Hudson has been established by the publisher McSweeney's, where Hudson once worked.
Book Review: 'We're Alone' by Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat weaves personal and political

Book Review: 'We're Alone' by Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat weaves personal and political

Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat explores family, homeland and her literary heroes in 鈥淲e're Alone,鈥 a new volume of essays that include personal narratives of her early years as child immigrant in Brooklyn to reportage of recent events like

National Book Award long list for young people's literature has a poetic touch

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 This year's long list of National Book Awards for young people's literature has a poetic touch. Five of the 10 nominees announced Tuesday by the National Book Foundation are novels written in verse, including Olivia A.

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Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Capture or Kill by Don Bentley & Vince Flynn (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) 2. Passions in Death by J. D. Robb (St. Martin鈥檚 Publishing Group) 3. The Pumpkin Spice Caf茅 by Laurie Gilmore (One More Chapter) 4.
Book Review: Brathwaite flexes his writing chops and expands Black literary canon with debut 'Rage'

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鈥檚 鈥淩age鈥 would fit snugly right into that syllabus.
Book Review: 鈥楥ategory Five鈥 examines superstorms amid compelling personal memoir

Book Review: 鈥楥ategory Five鈥 examines superstorms amid compelling personal memoir

I graduated from Middlebury College with Porter Fox just over 30 years ago. We weren鈥檛 friends, but it was a small campus and everyone knew something about everybody else. I knew he sailed and wore L.L. Bean like a native Mainer.

Jessica Hagedorn, R.F. Kuang among winners of American Book Awards, which celebrate multiculturalism

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Author-playwright Jessica Hagedorn, 鈥淵ellowface鈥 novelist R.F.
Book Review: Hiroshima bomb saga revisited with witness accounts

Book Review: Hiroshima bomb saga revisited with witness accounts

An atomic bombing is so horrific all accounts tend to be quintessential. M.G. Sheftall鈥檚 鈥淗iroshima: The Last Witnesses,鈥 a carefully and respectfully researched oral history, is no different.
Mattea Roach, host of new literary radio show 'Bookends,' on their love of reading

Mattea Roach, host of new literary radio show 'Bookends,' on their love of reading

TORONTO 鈥 Mattea Roach is starting a new professional chapter. The Toronto-based "Jeopardy" super-champion turned podcaster will hit the airwaves Canada-wide this weekend as they take the helm of CBC's new literary radio show, "Bookends.
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