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Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner are among 6 Booker Prize finalists
LONDON (AP) — American writers Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner are among six finalists shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction this year, organizers said Monday. Five of the six authors are women — the largest number in the prize's 55-year history. ...
Book Review: Couples mix in Paris as feminist voices rise in Lauren Elkin’s novel `Scaffolding’
If you’re a Francophile with an interest in psychoanalysis, Lauren Elkin’s smart and steamy debut novel, “Scaffolding,” may be for you. Even if you’re just a reader looking for an intriguing story of desire and love among a bright corps of professionals in France, Elkin’s...
Percival Everett, Rachel Kushner and Miranda July are fiction nominees for National Book Awards
NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's “James,” his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain's “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is a fiction nominee for the National Book Awards. The long list of 10 also includes Rachel Kushner's innovative thriller, “Creation Lake,” and novelist-filmmaker...
$10,000 literary award named for the late author Gabe Hudson goes to Ayana Mathis' 'The Unsettled'
NEW YORK (AP) — 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. The inaugural winner, Ayana Mathis' “The Unsettled,” was announced Thursday, on what would have been...
Movie Review: In ‘The Critic,’ Ian McKellen's theater critic takes his job very seriously
The arts rarely have anything good to say about critics. That they’re not generally the hero of many stories is, at the very least, understandable. More often they’re portrayed as joyless, cruel and a little pathetic; themselves failed artists who live to take down others, or, worse, sycophants...
National Book Award long list for young people's literature has a poetic touch
NEW YORK (AP) — 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. Coles' “Ariel Crashing a Train” and Shifa...
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Nonfiction 1. Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen, narrated by the author (Joseph Nguyen) 2. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 3. Good Energy by Casey Means, MD, and Calley Means, narrated by Casey...
Oprah Winfrey names Elizabeth Strout's 'Tell Me Everything' as her latest book club pick
NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey 's latest book club pick will be a story of familiar faces — in more ways than one. Winfrey announced Tuesday that she had chosen “Tell Me Everything,” the new novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. It's the second time...
Book Review: Paula Spencer is back amid the pandemic lockdown in Roddy Doyle’s brilliant new novel
Paula Spencer is back for an encore performance in Roddy Doyle’s latest miracle of a novel, “The Women Behind the Door.” In this installment, the 66-year-old mother, grandmother, recovering alcoholic and domestic violence survivor, has weathered the first year of the Covid lockdown in...
Book Review: Elizabeth Strout brings all her favorite Mainers together in 'Tell Me Everything'
Full disclosure: Other than a few clips of Frances McDormand as the titular Olive Kitteridge in the 2014 HBO show, “Tell Me Everything” was this reviewer’s first trip to Crosby, Maine. It’s unlikely to be my last. “Tell Me Everything” reads like the stories that Lucy...
