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New 'Buzz Books' compilation includes Nancy Horan, MLK bio

NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Elizabeth Acevedo, Nancy Horan and Abraham Verghese, and a new biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. are among dozens of upcoming works excerpted in a free e-book compilation.

Jan 17, 2023 8:47 AM Read more >

Review: The kids are still not alright in 'The Shards'

“The Shards,” by Bret Easton Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf) It’s the 1980s and rich prep school students in Los Angeles are living the life of absentee parents, fancy cars, drugs, sex and disaffection.

Jan 17, 2023 8:40 AM Read more >

Review: Oral history of Rikers Island reveals city's failure

"Rikers: An Oral History," by Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau (Random House) In these times, when people disagree about seemingly everything, just about everyone interviewed for this book concurs on the thesis: the New York City jails on Rikers Island

Jan 17, 2023 7:58 AM Read more >

Boris Johnson signs deal for memoir of turbulent premiership

LONDON (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has signed a deal to write a memoir of his tumultuous time in office, which began with a vow to “get Brexit done” and ended in scandal and resignation.

Jan 16, 2023 11:34 AM Read more >

Prince Harry's memoir opens at a record-setting sales pace

NEW YORK (AP) — No, the public has not tired of hearing about Prince Harry . Sales for “Spare" have placed the Duke of Sussex in some rarefied company.

Jan 11, 2023 4:30 PM Read more >

Monica Heisey says divorce in her 20s inspired debut novel 'Really Good, Actually'

TORONTO — Writer Monica Heisey says her own divorce at the age of 28 inspired her novel "Really Good, Actually," because she didn't see her experience reflected in pop culture and wanted to change that.

Jan 11, 2023 4:00 AM Read more >

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US Bestseller List - Paid Books 1. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover - 9781501110375 - (Atria Books) 2. It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover - 9781668001233 - (Atria Books) 3.

Jan 10, 2023 9:20 AM Read more >

Philip Roth tribute to be held in his native New Jersey

NEW YORK (AP) — Authors Ottessa Moshfegh and Susan Choi and actors John Turturro and Mary-Louise Parker will be among dozens of featured guests at a Philip Roth tribute in the late novelist's New Jersey hometown.

Jan 10, 2023 6:33 AM Read more >

‘Spare’ but not stingy: takeaways from Prince Harry’s memoir

From the book's opening citation of William Faulkner, to Prince Harry's passionate bond with his wife Meghan, you could almost call the Duke of Sussex's memoir “The Americanization of Prince Harry.

Jan 9, 2023 6:48 PM Read more >

Review: Janet Malcolm’s quasi-memoir on pictures and memory

“Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory,” by Janet Malcolm (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) When Janet Malcolm died 18 months ago at 86, her New Yorker colleague Ian Frazier wrote a eulogy for the magazine noting that the famed and feared journalist ha

Jan 9, 2023 7:30 AM Read more >