Jordan Pavlin named editor in chief of Alfred A. Knopf
NEW YORK — Jordan Pavlin, the publisher of such young and acclaimed authors as Tommy Orange, Ayana Mathis and Yaa Gyasi, has been promoted...
From tacos to ice cream: Adam Rubin now writing for tweens
NEW YORK — One of the country's most popular picture book authors is ready to add a few more words.
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Reshma Saujani’s book ‘Pay Up’ urges support for mothers
NEW YORK — The founder of the non-profit organization Girls Who Code has a book coming out about helping women who raise children, with...
Review: New insight into the complex character of Hoover
“The Director: My Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover,” by Paul Letersky with Gordon Dillow (Scribner)
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At Cannes, Joanna Hogg’s ‘The Souvenir Part II’ stands out
CANNES, France — Joanna Hogg is sitting on a hotel balcony overlooking the Mediterranean, but what she'd really like to be doing is swimming...
Reimagining the ‘scream teen’ genre for a binge generation
It’s not uncommon for Hollywood to stake a bet on a trilogy, or to even film several sequels at once. But it’s downright unheard...
Hungary issues fine over book featuring ‘rainbow families’
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungarian authorities have fined the distributor of a children's book that features a family with same-sex parents using a law prohibiting...
Review: Working undercover every day as a straight Catholic
“Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead,” by Emily Austin (Atria)
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Dogs on display: Museum fetes 200 years of cartoon canines
COLUMBUS, Ohio — In a 1970 Beetle Bailey comic strip, the character known as Sarge berates his uniform-wearing dog, Otto, for a paperwork mistake.
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Author Joy Williams honored by Library of Congress
NEW YORK — The Library of Congress awarded a lifetime achievement prize to Joy Williams, a fiction writer known for her spare prose and...
