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October 21, 2019 at 5:00 am

Sen Martha McSally of Arizona has a book coming out next May

NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Martha McSally, the Arizona Republican appointed to the seat once held by John McCain, has a book deal. William Morrow...

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October 18, 2019 at 4:24 pm

Naomi Wolf and publisher part ways amid delay of new book

NEW YORK (AP) — Naomi Wolf and her U.S. publisher have split up amid a dispute over her latest book, "Outrages." Wolf and Houghton Mifflin...

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October 16, 2019 at 5:09 am

Hollywood ‘fixer’ Scotty Bowers dies; he wrote tell-all book

NEW YORK (AP) — Scotty Bowers, a self-described Hollywood "fixer" whose memoir offered sensational accounts of the sex lives of such celebrities as Katharine Hepburn,...

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October 14, 2019 at 2:40 pm

Not so fast: Many Nobel winners endured initial rejections

NEW YORK (AP) — Some of the world's most innovative ideas and creations have started out in a rejection pile. One of this year's Nobel...

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October 14, 2019 at 1:31 pm

Harold Bloom, author of ‘Anxiety of Influence,’ dies at 89

NEW YORK (AP) — Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor whose seminal "The Anxiety of Influence" and melancholy regard for literature's old masters...

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October 11, 2019 at 5:00 am

Sue Monk Kidd’s next novel imagines a married Jesus

NEW YORK (AP) — Sue Monk Kidd's next novel is very much a work of fiction. "The Book of Longings" is the fourth novel by...

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October 8, 2019 at 7:40 am

Marlon James, Laili Lalami are National Book Award nominees VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — Marlon James fantasy novel "Black Leopard, Red Wolf," Laila Lalami's immigrant tale "The Other Americans" and Jason Reynolds' neighborhood story "Look...

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October 7, 2019 at 6:00 am

Book of Toni Morrison quotations is coming out in December

NEW YORK (AP) — A book of Toni Morrison quotations is coming out in December. "The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom" will...

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October 6, 2019 at 4:01 am

Ginger Baker, Cream’s volatile drummer, dies at 80

LONDON (AP) — Ginger Baker, the volatile and propulsive drummer for Cream and other bands who wielded blues power and jazz finesse and helped shatter...

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FILE – In this Dec. 16, 2010, file photo, Vietnam-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg speaks during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. The anonymous government official whose complaint has touched off the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump is part of a long tradition of whistleblowers in the U.S. The person has been linked to such figures of the past as Ellsberg, who spilled the secret Defense Department study known as the Pentagon Papers nearly 50 years ago. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) NYAG102 NYAG102

October 1, 2019 at 12:32 pm

Trump-Ukraine whistleblower is part of long tradition

NEW YORK (AP) — Erin Brockovich, who has some experience in revealing disturbing secrets, knows what she would say to the government whistleblower at the...