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December 3, 2020 at 4:09 pm

Alison Lurie, prize winning novelist, dead at 94

NEW YORK (AP) — Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose satirical and cerebral tales of love and academia included the marital saga “The War...

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December 1, 2020 at 9:00 am

Event organizer drops BookExpo, annual publishing convention

NEW YORK (AP) — The annual publishing convention and trade show known as BookExpo, a decades-old tradition where guest speakers have ranged from Bill Clinton...

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November 30, 2020 at 5:00 am

‘Game Change’ co-author John Heilemann has book on 2020 race

Heilemann's new book, currently untitled, draws on three decades of covering the former vice president. Screen rights have been acquired by Showtime, where Heilemann hosts...

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November 25, 2020 at 7:41 am

Penguin to buy Simon & Schuster, create publishing giant

BERLIN (AP) — German media giant Bertelsmann said Wednesday that its Penguin Random House division is buying rival Simon & Schuster in a megadeal that...

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November 25, 2020 at 5:02 am

Barack Obama to be honored next month by PEN America

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Barack Obama, already a million-selling author, is also a prize-winning author. PEN America announced Wednesday that Obama will receive...

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November 24, 2020 at 1:00 pm

Obama memoir sells a record 1.7 million copies in first week

Former President Barack Obama's “A Promised Land” sold more than 1.7 million copies in North America in its first week, roughly equal to the combined...

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November 20, 2020 at 10:52 am

Jan Morris, author and transgender pioneer, dies at 94

NEW YORK (AP) — Jan Morris, the celebrated journalist, historian, world traveler and fiction writer who in middle age became a pioneer of the transgender...

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November 18, 2020 at 5:44 pm

Charles Yu novel, Malcolm X bio win National Book Awards

NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Yu's “Interior Chinatown,” a satirical, cinematic novel written in the form of a screenplay, has won the National Book Award...

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November 18, 2020 at 1:06 pm

Barack Obama memoir off to record-setting start in sales

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Barack Obama's “A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours,...

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November 17, 2020 at 5:01 am

Tarantino has deal for 2 books on films, including 1 his own

NEW YORK (AP) — Quentin Tarantino's next work of imagination will be in book form. The Oscar-winning director has a two-book deal with Harper, beginning...

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