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Book Review: Serena Kaylor's 'Calculation' proves predictable romance can be uproarious, nail-biting
Marlowe Meadows has great grades and a loving family, two best friends who understand her and all her autistic quirks, and a picture-perfect, blue-eyed, football-playing, romantic boyfriend, Josh. At least, until he breaks up with her unceremoniously at the end of junior year, sending her perfectly...
Noted Japanese author Haruki Murakami is happy with first animated adaptation of his short stories
TOKYO (AP) — Renowned Japanese author Haruki Murakami expressed joy with how several of his short stories were adapted in American director Pierre Földes' animated film “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman", adding he wanted to see future interpretations of his work with filmmakers’ own spin. ...
Naomi Klein and V. V. Ganeshananthan win Women's Prize literary awards
LONDON (AP) — Author-activist Naomi Klein won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction on Thursday with “Doppelganger,” a personal account of her plunge into the world of online misinformation. Its sister award, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, went to U.S. writer V. V....
Bestselling author V.E. Schwab agrees to 7-figure book deal. Her next novel comes out in 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Bestselling author V.E. Schwab has a 7-figure book deal. Tor Books, a Macmillan imprint, announced Wednesday that it has agreed to terms on a $2 million contract for a new work from the science fiction/fantasy novelist. “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil” is...
Science fiction author Ted Chiang wins PEN/Malamud Award for short story writing
NEW YORK (AP) — Author Ted Chiang has won a lifetime achievement prize for short stories, the PEN/Malamud Award, marking only the second time a science fiction writer has been honored since the award was established in 1988. Chiang, who has received numerous Nebula, Hugo and other...
Book Review: 'Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ tells a tale of modern love and success
The cover art and title of “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” don’t quite convey the wild ride readers who crack open this new fiction from Rufi Thorpe will take. There’s a reason Apple TV optioned it as a series starring Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning before it was even published. This is a...
Book Review: Yume Kitasei explores space in a heist-driven action adventure novel
Grad student Maya Hoshimoto is having a hard time settling down on Earth after a thrilling career as an art thief, stealing looted objects and returning them to their people. So when her best friend Auncle — an octopus-like being from another solar system — offers one last job, of course she...
Winfrey picks David Wroblewski's 'Familairis' for her book club
NEW YORK (AP) — Author David Wroblewski has reached special status among contemporary authors: a two-time selection for Oprah Winfrey's book club. Winfrey announced Tuesday that she had chosen “Familiaris,” a prequel to Wroblewski's Oprah-endorsed debut novel from 2008, the...
Book Review: Carol LaHines' chilling novel chronicles a jilted woman’s descent into madness
It’s no accident that the narrator of Carol LaHines’s second novel, “The Vixen Amber Halloway,” is a literature professor named Ophelia. That was also the name of a woman who had her heart broken and was driven to madness by the title character in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” ...
A new 'Hunger Games' book — and movie — is coming
NEW YORK (AP) — Inspired by an 18th century Scottish philosopher and the modern scourge of misinformation, Suzanne Collins is returning to the ravaged, post-apocalyptic land of Panem for a new “The Hunger Games” novel. Scholastic announced Thursday that “Sunrise on the...
