Latest Fiction News
Nora Roberts is happily defying genres, 250 books in
NEW YORK (AP) — Nora Roberts is so prolific she had to take up a pen name so her publisher could release more books by her each year. “I’m a fast writer,” Roberts told The Associated Press in a rare interview. She typically releases four books a year, and has for more than...
Book Review: Maggie Su’s debut novel ‘Blob: A Love Story’ offers unique look at humanity
With the rise of Artificial Intelligence and the uncertainty of the geopolitical moment, it seems appropriate to start 2025 with some surreal fiction. So how about “Blob: A Love Story,” starring a Taiwanese-American named Vi, who stumbles upon a “beige gelatin splotch” with...
Book Review: A private eye searches for his missing father while protecting a runaway wife
Marigold Hart walked out on her billionaire husband, taking their 7-year-old daughter with her. She moved cross country to New York City and has been living under an assumed name. Her husband, Anthony Orr, hires Joe King Oliver, former NYPD officer turned private detective, to track...
Book Review: Susan Barker returns with ‘Old Soul,’ a thrilling horror story that defies description
If you read enough, you sometimes come across a book that defies description. That’s a decent enough way to start a review of “Old Soul,” the new novel by Susan Barker. Described in marketing materials as “literary horror,” it’s a supernatural mystery that culminates in an old-fashioned...
Percival Everett's 'James' awarded Carnegie Medal for fiction
NEW YORK (AP) — For author Percival Everett, libraries have long been a source of knowledge and discovery and pleasure, even of the forbidden kind. “I remember making friends at age 13 with the librarian at the University of South Carolina, and she used to let me go through the...
How to cope when disasters strip away photos, heirlooms and other pieces of the past
They’re the possessions that tell your story: the photos of old friends and relatives. The ring your mom left you. The hand-knit Christmas stockings. Your grandfather's secretary desk and the letters inside. When disasters strike, these artifacts of your own rich history might be...
Authors of fiction, poetry and nonfiction receive $10,000 prizes for blending art and science
NEW YORK (AP) — Books about a family's exploration of the natural world, the challenges of parenthood during a time of climate crisis and how animals perceive the planet have won $10,000 prizes for their exemplary blends of art and science. The fourth annual Science + Literature...
Book Review: A tour de force of a novel about a celebrated actor in the throes of a mid-life crisis
Have you ever woken up on Thanksgiving morning to a house full of company and just wanted to flee? In Mischa Berlinski’s extravagantly brilliant and darkly funny new novel, “Mona Acts Out,” the eponymous heroine does just that. Mona Zahid, a celebrated stage actor, has a lot on...
3 finalists announced for $20,000 Story Prize for outstanding short fiction
NEW YORK (AP) — The authors of stories set everywhere from Australia to Central America are nominees for a $20,000 prize for short fiction. The Story Prize, established in 2004, has honored books by Edwidge Danticat, George Saunders and Elizabeth Strout among others. ...
Book Review: Robert Crais spins the tale of a hardboiled private eye who uncovers a conspiracy
Traci Beller was 13 when her father — co-owner of a heating and air conditioning company — went out on some service calls and never returned home. The police, who found no trace of him, concluded that he had simply abandoned his family. The family then turned to Jessica Byers, a...
