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April 25, 2018 at 6:34 pm

Uma Thurman, Patty Griffin among readers at poetry tribute

NEW YORK (AP) — As Uma Thurman rose from her chair during a poetry tribute at Lincoln Center, she turned and bowed to the reader...

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April 24, 2018 at 7:27 am

Comey book sells more than 600,000 copies in first week

NEW YORK (AP) — James Comey's "A Higher Loyalty" had a very big opening week. Flatiron Books announced Tuesday that sales topped 600,000 copies, a...

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April 23, 2018 at 6:56 am

Next O’Reilly book coming in September

NEW YORK (AP) — Bill O'Reilly's next "Killing" book will be set during World War II. "Killing the SS" is scheduled to come out September...

April 16, 2018 at 1:00 pm

Music Pulitzer goes to rapper Lamar; fiction prize to ‘Less’

NEW YORK (AP) — Pulitzer judges upended decades of tradition by awarding its music prize Monday to Kendrick Lamar for his rap album "DAMN.," a...

April 15, 2018 at 9:11 am

Robert Caro talks Lyndon Johnson, music and the 1960s

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Caro has been thinking a lot about the 1960s. The Pulitzer Prize winning historian shared some observations this weekend —...

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April 10, 2018 at 3:00 pm

Arts academy condemns conduct of some members

NEW YORK (AP) — The American Academy of Arts and Letters condemned the "abhorrent" conduct of members facing sexual harassment allegations, but declined to take...

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April 2, 2018 at 8:14 pm

Apollo crowd cheers for Coates’ ‘Between the World and Me’ VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — The Apollo Theater audience cheered and cheered for Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the readers of "Between the World and Me." A capacity...

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April 1, 2018 at 6:03 pm

Harper Lee letters offer candid takes on religion, family

NEW YORK — Around the same time "To Kill a Mockingbird" made Harper Lee a best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, she was still fighting...

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March 20, 2018 at 5:53 am

Thomas Pynchon receiving $100,000 prize from arts academy

NEW YORK (AP) — Thomas Pynchon is receiving a $100,000 prize this spring from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. But that doesn't mean...

March 15, 2018 at 6:04 pm

Joan Silber, Frances FitzGerald win Critics Circle awards

NEW YORK (AP) — "Improvement," Joan Silber's novel about interconnected lives spanning from Turkey to New York's Harlem, won the National Book Critics Circle award...

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