James McBride wins $50,000 Kirkus Prize for fiction for “The Heaven & Earth Grocery...
NEW YORK (AP) — Three books that explore and celebrate the diversity of American culture were awarded Kirkus Prizes on Wednesday night, with each...
`The Laramie Project’ stages a special reading in Wyoming on the 25th anniversary of...
NEW YORK (AP) — It has been 25 years since the body of Matthew Shepard was discovered in Laramie, Wyoming. The gay college student...
Translations from Vietnamese, Arabic and Tamil are among finalists for National Translation Awards
NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction originally written in Vietnamese, Polish and French and poetry in German and Arabic are among this year's finalists for...
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have been separated since 2016, she says
Jada Pinkett Smith and husband Will Smith have lived “completely separate lives” since 2016, she revealed in an interview with Hoda Kotb. The prominent...
Horror icon John Carpenter on being a college dropout, ‘Barbie’ and telling true scary...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — While John Carpenter has become synonymous with fictional horror storytelling, the 75-year-old director and composer is dipping his toe into...
Keith Urban shares the secret to a great song ahead of Nashville Songwriters Hall...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Country superstar Keith Urban and Kix Brooks of powerhouse duo Brooks & Dunn will be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters...
Charles Spencer, younger brother of Princess Diana, is writing a book about his boarding...
NEW YORK (AP) — British author-journalist Charles Spencer is working on a book about his childhood years at the Maidwell Hall boarding school and...
Salman Rushdie was stabbed onstage last year. He’s releasing a memoir about the attack
NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie has a memoir coming out about the horrifying attack that left him blind in his right eye and...
Author and activist Louise Meriwether, who wrote the novel ‘Daddy Was a Number Runner,’...
NEW YORK (AP) — Louise Meriwether, the author and activist whose coming-of-age novel "Daddy Was a Number Runner" is widely regarded as a groundbreaking...
Mateo Askaripour’s ‘This Great Hemisphere’ is a novel about power set 500 years from...
NEW YORK (AP) — Mateo Askaripour's follow-up to his acclaimed debut novel “Black Buck” is a look into the distant future.Dutton, a Penguin Random...
