NEW YORK: More than 60 years after his death, Richard Wright is again a bestselling author and very much in line with the present.“The Man Who Lived...
SAN FRANCISCO: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious...
NEW YORK: Laurence Hyman, son of the late Shirley Jackson, has been on a quest for more than 20 years. Jackson was just 48 when she died, in 1965, and left...
NEW YORK: Book publishing in 2020 was a story of how much an industry can change and how much it can, or wants to, remain the same. “A lot of what has...
BERLIN: German media giant Bertelsmann said Wednesday that its Penguin Random House division is buying rival Simon & Schuster in a megadeal that would reshape...
NEW YORK: Toni Morrison is on the list. So are John Green and Harper Lee, John Steinbeck and Margaret Atwood. All wrote books that were among the 100 most...
NEW YORK: You’ve probably read a lot about “cancel culture.” Or know about a new poll that shows a plurality of Americans disapproving of it. Or you may have...
NEW YORK: No one in the world of comedy was more admired, and loved, than Carl Reiner.He was the rare untortured genius of comedy, his career a story of...
NEW YORK: The current issue of Strand Magazine will give readers the chance to discover an obscure and unfinished work of Louisa May Alcott fiction, and to...
NEW YORK: Gary Phillips, a prize-winning crime novelist from Los Angeles, grew up on TV shows that showed a world nothing like the one he lived in. He says he...
InterviewNEW YORK: Over the past few years, Curtis Sittenfeld has gotten to know Hillary Clinton in a way uniquely suited for a novelist -- by writing a work...
NEW YORK: Astrid Kirchherr, the German photographer who shot some of the earliest and most striking images of the Beatles and helped shape their trend-setting...
NEW YORK: Colson Whitehead became the rare author to receive Pulitzers for consecutive books when his novel about a brutal Florida reform school during the...
NEW YORK: Stories with gay and transgender themes, a spoof inspired by Mike Pence’s family rabbit, and classics by J.K. Rowling and Margaret Atwood were among...
NEW YORK: Woody Allen’s memoir, dropped by its original publisher after widespread criticism, has found a new home, The Associated Press has learned. The...
NEW YORK: Lauren Beukes, a script and fiction writer, is drawn to narratives that allow her to probe themes of gender and power. For her upcoming novel,...
NEW YORK: The number of physical books sold dropped 10 percent from the previous week, the latest sign of the effect of the coronavirus on the publishing...
NEW YORK: Novelist Charles Portis was a favorite among critics and writers for such shaggy dog stories as “Norwood” and “Gringos” and a bounty for Hollywood...
A well-travelled author, playwright and gadabout, A.E. Hotchner’s street smarts and famous pals led to a loving, but litigated memoir of Ernest Hemingway,...
NEW YORK: He was born Issur Danielovitch, a ragman’s son. He died Kirk Douglas, a Hollywood king. Douglas, the muscular, tempestuous actor with the...
NEW YORK: For decades, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan and other characters from “The Great Gatsby” have been as real to millions of readers as people in their own...
TORONTO: From a park bench on the Victoria College campus, Margaret Atwood - class of 1961 - can trace her life of the mind. “It was here that I decided to...
NEW YORK: When author Angela Flournoy was asked to dress as her favorite literary character for a magazine shoot four years ago, she knew how to look the...
NEW YORK: Ernest Hemingway wasn’t the only great American writer with something to say about Paris. Hemingway’s contemporary and fellow Nobel laureate, John...
NEW YORK: From Bosnia to West Africa, she has witnessed tragedy, but the photo of two drowned Salvadoran refugees this week still shocked Corinne Dufka. The...