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NEW YORK (AP) — A $10,000 literary award named for the late author-editor-podcaster Gabe Hudson has been established by the publisher McSweeney's, where Hudson once worked.

Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat explores family, homeland and her literary heroes in “We're Alone,” a new volume of essays that include personal narratives of her early years as child immigrant in Brooklyn to reportage of recent events like

NEW YORK (AP) — This year's long list of National Book Awards for young people's literature has a poetic touch. Five of the 10 nominees announced Tuesday by the National Book Foundation are novels written in verse, including Olivia A.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Capture or Kill by Don Bentley & Vince Flynn (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) 2. Passions in Death by J. D. Robb (St. Martin’s Publishing Group) 3. The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore (One More Chapter) 4.

There was a class at my university called Black Arts, Black Power. Lester Fabian Brathwaite’s “Rage” would fit snugly right into that syllabus.

I graduated from Middlebury College with Porter Fox just over 30 years ago. We weren’t friends, but it was a small campus and everyone knew something about everybody else. I knew he sailed and wore L.L. Bean like a native Mainer.

NEW YORK (AP) — Author-playwright Jessica Hagedorn, “Yellowface” novelist R.F.

An atomic bombing is so horrific all accounts tend to be quintessential. M.G. Sheftall’s “Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses,” a carefully and respectfully researched oral history, is no different.

TORONTO — Mattea Roach is starting a new professional chapter. The Toronto-based "Jeopardy" super-champion turned podcaster will hit the airwaves Canada-wide this weekend as they take the helm of CBC's new literary radio show, "Bookends.

NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Kingsolver, this year's recipient of a National Book Award medal for literary achievement, remembers well the years she couldn't imagine receiving such honors.