Books

Katy Tur memoir ‘Rough Draft’ scheduled for November

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NEW YORK — The next book from MSNBC anchor and NBC News correspondent Katy Tur will combine the personal and the professional. ...

Review: America struggles to reconcile the Tulsa genocide

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“The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice,” by Scott Ellsworth (Dutton) ...

Philip Roth biography, pulled last month, has new publisher

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NEW YORK — A long-awaited book about Philip Roth that was pulled last month amid allegations of sexual assault and harassment against biographer Blake...

Poet Carl Phillips wins $75,000 Jackson Prize

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NEW YORK — Poet Carl Phillips has received a $75,000 honor for a body of work which displays “exceptional talent.” ...

A Facebook food group comes together to make a cookbook

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NEW YORK — The pandemic gave them lemons. So they made lemon rosemary chicken. ...

Cuomo set to earn $5M from book on COVID-19 crisis

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ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo disclosed Monday that he was paid a $3.1 million advance to write his COVID-19 leadership book...

Black elite family drama ‘Our Kind of People’ set for fall

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LOS ANGELES — Affluent and well-connected Black families are the focus of “Our Kind of People,” a new Fox drama series from “Empire” creator...

Review: Jim Shepard’s stunning new novel about a pandemic

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“Phase Six,” by Jim Shepard (Alfred A. Knopf) After more than...

Restored Richard Wright novel hits bestseller lists

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NEW YORK — More than 60 years after his death, Richard Wright is again a bestselling author and very much in line with the...

Barry Jenkins on his unflinching epic ‘Underground Railroad’

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LOS ANGELES — When Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins was considering adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the Underground Railroad into a limited series,...