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Jayne Anne Phillips' novel 'Night Watch,' Eboni Booth’s drama 'Primary Trust' among Pulitzer winners
NEW YORK (AP) — Stories of race, slavery and the Civil War, real and invented, were winners this year for the Pulitzer Prizes. Jayne Anne Phillips' “Night Watch,” a mother-daughter saga set in a West Virginia asylum right after the war, was cited for fiction. Jacqueline Jones...
Book Review: Memoirist Lilly Dancyger’s penetrating essays explore the power of female friendships
Who means more to you — your friends or your lovers? In a vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays, Lilly Dancyger explores the powerful role that female friendships played in her chaotic upbringing marked by her parents’ heroin use and her father’s untimely death when she was only...
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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Funny Story” by Emily Henry (Berkley) 2. “The Women” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s) 3. “A Calamity of Souls” by David Baldacci (Grand Central) 4. “The Covenant of Water” by Abraham Verghese (Grove)...
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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Women” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s) 2. “A Calamity of Souls” by David Baldacci (Grand Central) 3. “Fourth Wing” by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) 4. “The Familiar” by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron) ...
Complex stories of migration are among the finalists for the Women's Prize for Fiction
LONDON (AP) — Two novels that tell complex and surprising stories of migration are among six finalists for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction. U.S.-French writer Aube Rey Lescure’s debut novel “River East, River West” depicts west to east immigration through the story of...
Has Salman Rushdie changed after his stabbing? Well, he feels about 25, the author tells AP
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly two years after the knife attack that nearly killed him, Salman Rushdie appears both changed and very much the same. Interviewed this week at the Manhattan offices of his longtime publisher, Random House, he is thinner, paler, scarred and blind in his right...
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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Women” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s) 2. “The Familiar” by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron) 3. “Fourth Wing” by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower) 4. “Toxic Prey” by John Sanford (Putnam) 5....
Movie Review: 'Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare' amps up a true-tale WWII heist
The latest Guy Ritchie flick “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” has a spine of true story to it, even if it does all it can to amplify a long-declassified World War II tale with enough dead Nazis to make “Inglourious Basterds” blush. The result is a jauntily entertaining...
NPR suspends editor who criticized his employer for what he calls an unquestioned liberal worldview
NEW YORK (AP) — National Public Radio has suspended a veteran editor who wrote an outside essay criticizing his employer for, in his view, journalism that reflects a liberal viewpoint with little tolerance for contrary opinions. Uri Berliner, a senior editor on NPR's business desk,...
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Nonfiction 1. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 2. The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, narrated by Sean Pratt and the author (Penguin Audio) 3. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, narrated by the author...
