WASHINGTON (AP) — Neil Sheehan, a reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who broke the story of the Pentagon Papers for The New York Times and who chronicled the deception at the heart of the...
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 first week sales of memoirs by his two...
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 for fiction.
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Chanel Miller is among the winners of a prestigious book award for her soul-bearing memoir, where she reclaims her identity after being known as an anonymous victim of a highly...
NEW YORK (AP) — Stories of race, class and climate change were among the fiction finalists Tuesday for the 71st annual National Book Awards.
The National Book Foundation, which presents the...
NEW YORK (AP) — Walter Mosley is receiving an honorary National Book Award, cited for dozens of books which range from science fiction and erotica to the acclaimed mystery series that has followed...
NEW YORK (AP) — Joyce Carol Oates, Douglas Brinkley and Lauren Groff are among more than 20 writers contributing essays for a book on the legacy of Henry David Thoreau.
NEW YORK (AP) — A new literary award with a $50,000 cash prize will honor those best at telling a New York story.
The Gotham Literary Prize, announced Thursday, came out of a conversation...
LONDON (AP) — Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli’s novel “Lost Children Archive” won the Rathbones Folio Prize for literature on Monday at a ceremony held online because of the coronavirus...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — David Simon, the creative force behind stellar TV including “The Wire," “Show Me a Hero” and “Treme,” found himself in unfamiliar territory with his latest series, HBO’s “The...
“The Big Goodbye: ‘Chinatown’ and the Last Years of Hollywood,” Flatiron, by Sam Wasson
Quentin Tarantino’s hagiographic “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” keeps '60s Los Angeles swinging by...
NEW YORK (AP) — Sixty years after her death, the story of Zora Neale Hurston is still not fully told.
The fiction writer-anthropologist-folklorist died in a segregated Florida hospital in...
NEW YORK (AP) — A memoir by Mariah Carey is on the list of titles from Andy Cohen Books.
Henry Holt and Company announced Thursday that Cohen's self-named imprint will launch in 2020. It...
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 Both Ways" are among this...
NEW YORK (AP) — Authors working on nonfiction books with subjects ranging from Cuban independence from Spain to gay rights have received $40,000 grants from the Whiting...
NEW YORK (AP) — Colson Whitehead's brutal narrative of a boys' reform school, "The Nickel Boys," and Marlon James' fantasy epic "Black Leopard, Red Wolf" are among the works chosen by judges for...
NEW YORK (AP) — Authors from Asia, Africa and South America are among those on the National Book Awards longlist for translated literature, a category started last year.
NEW YORK (AP) — Colson Whitehead's novel "The Nickel Boys" and Kwame Alexander's picture story "The Undefeated" are among the finalists for the Kirkus Prize, a $50,000 honor given for the year's...
Winning an honorary National Book Award has Edmund White thinking about the more pleasurable moments of the writing life.
"Everybody always complains about it, but it occurred to me the...
NEW YORK (AP) — Prize-winning crime novelist Laura Lippman has several new books planned, not all of them fiction.
Lippman has reached a five-book deal with her current publisher, William...
"Raised in Captivity" (Penguin Press), by Chuck Klosterman
Chuck Klosterman seems like a great hang. He's the guy at the party who has everyone spitting out their drinks as they laugh while...
NEW YORK (AP) — "The Mueller Report" is now officially a best-seller.
A published edition of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged ties between Russian officials and...
NEW YORK (AP) — Aretha Franklin received an honorary Pulitzer Prize on Monday, as judges praised the Queen of Soul "for her indelible contribution to American music and culture." Competitive...
NEW YORK (AP) — Anderson Cooper has a two-book deal and plans to collaborate with historian-novelist Katherine Howe.
Harper announced Tuesday the 51-year-old CNN anchor and "60 Minutes"...