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Book Review: Rural Appalachian family’s dreams turn dark in new Ron Rash novel, `The Caretaker’
Ron Rash has made the fog-shrouded ridges of Appalachia his fictional home in novels and short stories over a highly acclaimed career dating back decades. With “The Caretaker,” his first novel in seven years, he returns to this familiar mountain terrain and its remote hill culture. ...
A rare Truman Capote story from the early 1950s is being published for the first time
NEW YORK (AP) — Along with such classics as “In Cold Blood” and “Breakfast at Tiffany's,” Truman Capote had a history of work left uncompleted and unpublished. Capote, who died in 1984 shortly before his 60th birthday, spent much of his latter years struggling to write his...
Novels from US, UK, Canada and Ireland are finalists for the Booker Prize for fiction
LONDON (AP) — Novels from Ireland, the United States, Canada and Britain that explore families, communities and a world in crisis make up the six finalists for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction. The shortlist announced Thursday for the 50,000 pound ($61,000) award includes...
Million-selling novelist Isabel Allende has a deal to write 3 children's books
NEW YORK (AP) — After 40 years of publishing and millions of book sales worldwide, Isabel Allende is ready to become a children's author. Allende has a deal with Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, for three picture books. She will start with “Perla, The Mighty...
Winfrey picks Nathan Hill's novel 'Wellness' for book club
NEW YORK (AP) — When she started her book club nearly 30 years ago, Oprah Winfrey would sometimes inform the authors by looking up their numbers in the phone book — when phone books were in common use — and calling them up. For her latest pick, Winfrey broke the news to author...
Jayne Anne Phillips, Paul Harding are among National Book Award fiction nominees
NEW YORK (AP) — Historical novels by Jayne Anne Phillips and Paul Harding and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s dystopian prison novel “Chain-Gang All-Stars” are among the nominees on the National Book Awards long list for fiction. Phillips, a former National Book Award finalist,...
Movie Review: A charming Haley Lu Richardson anchors sappy but sweet rom-com ‘Love at First Sight’
The last time we saw Haley Lu Richardson — at least, the “White Lotus” version of Haley Lu Richardson — her Portia was in an airport, leaving the murderous mayhem of Sicily (and one dead boss) behind and exchanging contacts on her phone with nice young Albie. Now, in an...
Book Review: Millie Bobby Brown of 'Stranger Things' weaves a romance novel into a WWII disaster
“Nineteen Steps” by Millie Bobby Brown (William Morrow) The actor who plays Eleven on “Stranger Things” wrote a romance novel! That’ll be the headline for too much coverage of “Nineteen Steps,” so let’s set that aside and consider the debut book from Millie Bobby...
Bernie Taupin, Elton John's lyricist, would like to have a word
NEW YORK (AP) — If you're thinking of checking out the new memoir by Elton John's lyricist to learn more about the Rocket Man, you're out of luck. This is Bernie Taupin's song to sing. “Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton & Me” is a fascinating read for the pictures it paints...
Book Review: Stephen King finds terror in the ordinary in new pandemic-set novel ‘Holly’
“Holly” by Stephen King (Scribner) In half a century of writing horror novels, Stephen King has created some remarkable villains. Who can forget the sing-song voice of Pennywise the clown, the devil incarnate Randall Flagg, or the drooling jaws of Cujo? The big bads in King’s...
