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Kiran Desai to publish first novel since 'The Inheritance of Loss' came out nearly 20 years ago
NEW YORK (AP) — A new novel from Kiran Desai, her first fiction since the Booker Prize-winning “The Inheritance of Loss” came out nearly 20 years ago, will be published next fall. Desai's “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” is scheduled for release in September by Hogarth,...
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Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. The Briar Club by Kate Quinn (William Morrow) 2. Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson (Tor Publishing Group) 3. The House of Cross by James Patterson (Little, Brown and Company) 4. The Wedding People...
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Nonfiction 1. Atomic Habitsby James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 2. Revenge of the Tipping Pointby Malcolm Gladwell, narrated by the author (Little, Brown & Company) 3. The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, narrated by Sean...
Pope in autobiography reveals an apparent bombing plot during his 2021 visit to Iraq
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis turned 88 on Tuesday and marked the occasion with revelations that he almost didn’t make it. According to excerpts of his upcoming autobiography, suicide bombers had planned to attack him during his 2021 visit to Iraq, but were killed before striking. ...
Rarely seen story by crime fiction master John D MacDonald offers clues to his best known work
NEW YORK (AP) — Crime writer John D. MacDonald, a master of the genre, was so prolific that sometimes even he couldn't keep up with what he was doing. He might have dozens of stories in submission at once and would leave some unfinished or unpublished as he moved on to a new idea....
Book Review: 'The Rivals' is Jane Pek’s fine new mystery novel of online dating, love and death
Claudia Lin, an online dating detective in the age of AI, is hunting once again through a dark cybersphere of tech systems in “The Rivals,” the second novel in a new mystery series by Jane Pek. Pek, who introduced Claudia in her 2022 debut book, “The Verifiers,” has given the...
Charles Dickens' characters come alive in a Dutch town enamored with the English author
DEVENTER, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch city of Deventer transformed Saturday into a pocket of 19th-century England, with 950 people in costumes bringing characters from Charles Dickens’ books to life. Oliver Twist, Ebenezer Scrooge and Miss Havisham were among the characters at...
Nikki Giovanni, poet and literary celebrity, has died at 81
NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first book to spending decades as a literary celebrity who shared blunt and conversational takes on everything from racism and love to space travel and mortality, has died....
10 nonfiction authors receive $40,000 Whiting grants for books-in-progress
NEW YORK (AP) — Authors of books-in-progress on subjects ranging from Edgar Allan Poe to subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz are among this year's 10 recipients of $40,000 Whiting grants for nonfiction. The Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grants, established in 2016, have previously gone...
Metaphor: ReFantazio, Dragon Age, Astro Bot and an indie wave lead the top AP video games of 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s been a rough year in the world of video games, which reeled from some high-profile flops (sorry, Suicide Squad and Star Wars fans) and a relentless series of developer layoffs. Fortunately, indie designers stepped up to fill in the gaps. And toward the end of the year, a...
