Tag: Fiction

Florence Welch throws her hat into the musical theater ring

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NEW YORK — Florence Welch is ditching the machine for musicals. ...

US, UK, Barbadian authors up for Women’s Prize for fiction

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LONDON — Novels that explore forgotten and neglected communities in Britain, the U.S. and the Caribbean were named finalists on Wednesday for the 30,000...

Review: Review: Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel is very novel

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“Whereabouts,” by Jhumpa Lahiri (Alfred A. Knopf) Pulitzer Prize winner...

Review: Legal writer John Grisham pens a basketball thriller

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“Sooley,” by John Grisham (Doubleday) When you’ve written 35 novels...

Novel about Vietnam veteran wins $5,000 William Colby prize

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NEW YORK — A novel about a Marine's time in Vietnam and his struggles back home has won a $5,000 prize. Mark Treanor's “A...

Cover unveiled for Clinton-Penny novel ‘State of Terror’

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NEW YORK — The cover for Hillary Clinton's first novel will not be mistaken for those of her memoirs. ...

Rowling children’s story ‘The Christmas Pig’ out in October

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NEW YORK — J.K. Rowling has a new book coming this fall, a holiday children's story with all new characters. ...

McBride’s ‘Deacon King Kong’ wins inaugural Gotham prize

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NEW YORK — James McBride's latest honor for the novel “Deacon King Kong” is a real New York story. ...

McBride, Trethewey among winners of Anisfeld-Wolf awards

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NEW YORK — Novelist James McBride, former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey and science fiction great Samuel R. Delaney are among this year's winners...

Review: Michelle Pfeiffer has a feast with ‘French Exit’

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Is there any living actor better at the disdainful eye roll than Michelle Pfeiffer? Her latest turn in “ French Exit ” should end...