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British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel 'Orbital' wins the Booker Prize for fiction

Nov. 12, 2024 19:35 PM EST

LONDON (AP) — British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the beauty and fragility of Earth. Harvey was awarded the 50,000-pound ($64,000) prize...

Florida education officials report hundreds of books pulled from school libraries

Nov. 12, 2024 18:16 PM EST

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison. “Forever” by Judi Blume. “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut. All have been pulled from the shelves of some Florida schools, according to the latest list compiled by the Florida Department of Education...

British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel 'Orbital' wins the Booker Prize for fiction

Nov. 12, 2024 17:01 PM EST
LONDON (AP) — British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel 'Orbital' wins the Booker Prize for fiction.

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Nov. 12, 2024 12:22 PM EST

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. In Too Deep by Andrew Child & Lee Child (Random House Publishing Group) 2. The Waiting by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company) 3. All the Broken Places by John Boyne (Penguin Publishing Group) ...

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Nov. 12, 2024 12:06 PM EST

Nonfiction 1. Revenge of the Tipping Pointby Malcolm Gladwell, narrated by the author (Little, Brown & Company) 2. Atomic Habitsby James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 3. Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance, narrated by the author...

Percival Everett's 'James' is a finalist for Carnegie Medal for fiction

Nov. 12, 2024 11:08 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's “James” has received yet another literary nomination. Everett's reworking of Mark Twain's “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is among the finalists for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, $5,000 honors for fiction and nonfiction presented by the...

Book Review: Richard Price returns with another portrait of urban America, ‘Lazarus Man'

Nov. 11, 2024 14:22 PM EST

Is there a better writer of urban American stories than Richard Price? His resume is hart to beat: To episodes of HBO’s “The Wire,” and “The Night Of,” and novels like “Clockers,” “Lush Life,” and “Freedomland,” fans can now add “Lazarus Man.” The story...

Book Review: A new book about cult favorite Eve Babitz throws shade on reputation of Joan Didion

Nov. 11, 2024 14:09 PM EST

An entire generation of literary-minded women has not stopped telling itself stories influenced by master storyteller Joan Didion. The same, alas, cannot be said of Eve Babitz, a Hollywood bad girl whose life briefly intersected with Didion’s in the late 1960s and early ’70s. Few...

Book Review: 'Those Opulent Days' is a mystery drenched in cruelties of colonial French Indochina

Nov. 11, 2024 10:42 AM EST

It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. It’s also unusual that such a novel would be a whodunit murder mystery. “Those Opulent Days,” the debut novel of...

Children's book by chef Jamie Oliver is withdrawn after criticism from Indigenous Australians

Nov. 10, 2024 19:28 PM EST

LONDON (AP) — A children's book written by British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has been withdrawn from sale after it was criticized for causing offense to Indigenous Australians. The Guardian newspaper reported Saturday that the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...