Tag: Literary fiction
Hungary: Writers, bookstores brace for ban on LGBT content
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Some bookstores in Hungary placed notices at their entrances this week telling customers that they sell "non-traditional content.” The signs went...
Review: ‘Cheated’ details an shameful chapter in baseball
“Cheated: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and the Colorful History of Sign Stealing,” by Andy Martino (Doubleday)
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Luiselli’s prize-winning novel responds to migratory crisis
MEXICO CITY — Valeria Luiselli is pleased to have passed the libraries’ test with her first novel written directly in English, “Lost Children Archive”...
Publisher removes Anne Frank passage from Hilderbrand novel
NEW YORK — Elin Hilderbrand has asked that a reference to Anne Frank in her new novel be taken out after numerous online readers...
Stacey Abrams has deal for 2 more political thrillers
NEW YORK — Nearly 20 years after self-publishing her first novels, Stacey Abrams is hitting full stride as a writer.
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Posthumous John le Carré novel to be published in October
LONDON — A final novel by John le Carré will be published this fall, 10 months after the spy writer’s death at the age...
Restored Richard Wright novel hits bestseller lists
NEW YORK — More than 60 years after his death, Richard Wright is again a bestselling author and very much in line with the...
TV’s growth is a boon for ‘diverse voices’ among novelists
LOS ANGELES — Growing up an avid reader, Kwana Jackson knew where to look for romance novels with Black characters: Segregated in the “African...
Florence Welch throws her hat into the musical theater ring
NEW YORK — Florence Welch is ditching the machine for musicals.
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Review: Legal writer John Grisham pens a basketball thriller
“Sooley,” by John Grisham (Doubleday)
When you’ve written 35 novels...