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Kim Porter's children say she didn’t write bestselling memoir about Diddy
NEW YORK (AP) — Although it's a bestseller on Amazon, the late Kim Porter did not write a tell-all memoir detailing an abusive relationship with her longtime partner Sean “Diddy” Combs, her children said in a statement Tuesday. “Kim’s Lost Words: A journey for justice,...
Tom Watson, longtime Associated Press broadcast editor in Kentucky, has died at age 85
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Tom Watson, a hall of fame broadcast reporter whose long career of covering breaking news included decades as a broadcast editor for The Associated Press in Kentucky, has died. He was 85. Watson's baritone voice and sharp wit were fixtures in the AP's...
50 years after 'The Power Broker,' Robert Caro's dreams are still coming true
NEW YORK (AP) — Robert A. Caro stands between two giant columns in a second-floor library of the New-York Historical Society, looking out on dozens of friends, family members and colleagues. A research room named for him looms behind. Portions of his archives are on display nearby. ...
Arundhati Roy's first memoir, 'Mother Mary Comes to Me,' to be published in September 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy's first memoir is coming out next fall, a book inspired by the death of her mother. Scribner announced Friday that the Indian author and activist's “Mother Mary Comes to Me” will be released in September 2025. Roy, best known...
Rare G.K. Chesterton essay on mystery writing is itself a mystery
NEW YORK (AP) — When he wasn't working on mystery stories, and he completed hundreds, G.K. Chesterton liked to think of new ways to tell them. Detective fiction had grown a little dull, the British author wrote in a rarely seen essay from the 1930s published this week in The Strand...
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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Somewhere Beyond the Sea" by TJ Klune (Tor) 2. “Here One Moment" by Liane Moriarty (Crown) 3. “Tell Me Everything" by Elizabeth Strout (Random House) 4. “The Games Gods Play (deluxe ltd. ed.)” by Abigail...
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...
Salman Rushdie's memoir about his stabbing, 'Knife,' is a National Book Award nominee
NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie's “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder,” his explicit and surprisingly resilient memoir about his brutal stabbing in 2022, is a nominee for the National Book Awards. Canada's Anne Carson, one of the world's most revered poets, was cited for her latest...
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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Games Gods Play (deluxe ltd. ed.)" by Abigail Owen (Red Tower) 2. “Passions in Death" by J.D. Robb (St. Martin’s) 3. “The Cursed (special ed.)" by Harper L. Woods (Bramble) 4. “Vince Flynn: Capture or...
Book Review: 'We're Alone' by Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat weaves personal and political
Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat explores family, homeland and her literary heroes in “We're Alone,” a new volume of essays that include personal narratives of her early years as child immigrant in Brooklyn to reportage of recent events like the assassination of a president back in her...
