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Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin gets personal in 'An Unfinished Love Story'

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Doris Kearns Goodwin's next book is a work of history that's also close to home.

Sep 20, 2023 5:03 AM Read more >

Book Review: 鈥楢stor鈥� is a primer on the rise and fall one of America鈥檚 richest families

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� It鈥檚 hard to escape the name Astor when you are in New York: from Astor Place downtown to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and even the neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, the family鈥檚 legacy is everywhere.

Sep 19, 2023 12:31 PM Read more >

Jessica Knoll's novel 'Bright Young Women' is an ode to victims and survivors of Ted Bundy's crimes

鈥淟uckiest Girl Alive鈥� author Jessica Knoll's latest novel was inspired by Ted Bundy's murders of two sorority sisters at Florida State University in 1978.

Sep 19, 2023 10:08 AM Read more >

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Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Code Red by Kyle Mills & Vince Flynn (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) 2. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster) 3. Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar (Gallery Books) 4.

Sep 19, 2023 8:51 AM Read more >

Poet Afaa Michael Weaver wins $100,000 award for lifetime achievement

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Poet Afaa Michael Weaver has won the Wallace Stevens Award, a lifetime achievement honor presented by the Academy of American Poets.

Sep 19, 2023 5:28 AM Read more >

Winfrey picks Nathan Hill's novel 'Wellness' for book club

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� 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 鈥� when phone books were in common use 鈥� and calling them up.

Sep 19, 2023 5:16 AM Read more >

Indigo founder Heather Reisman returns as CEO of retailer

TORONTO 鈥� The woman who built Indigo Books & Music Inc. into a Canadian retail juggernaut is returning to the helm of the company just weeks after her retirement.

Sep 18, 2023 2:03 PM Read more >

Nihar Malaviya named as permanent CEO of Penguin Random House

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Nihar Malaviya has been named as permanent CEO of Penguin Random House, nine months after he was appointed the interim chief executive.

Sep 18, 2023 10:12 AM Read more >

Wayne Johnston's memoir 'Jennie's Boy' wins Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour

Wayne Johnston is the winner of this year鈥檚 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. The novelist鈥檚 memoir 鈥淛ennie鈥檚 Boy,鈥� published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, took home the $25,000 prize.

Sep 16, 2023 7:55 PM Read more >

Jayne Anne Phillips, Paul Harding are among National Book Award fiction nominees

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Historical novels by Jayne Anne Phillips and Paul Harding and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah鈥檚 dystopian prison novel 鈥淐hain-Gang All-Stars鈥� are among the nominees on the National Book Awards long list for fiction.

Sep 15, 2023 10:13 AM Read more >