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Jessica Hagedorn, R.F. Kuang among winners of American Book Awards, which celebrate multiculturalism

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Author-playwright Jessica Hagedorn, 鈥淵ellowface鈥� novelist R.F.

Sep 9, 2024 6:52 AM Read more >

Book Review: Hiroshima bomb saga revisited with witness accounts

An atomic bombing is so horrific all accounts tend to be quintessential. M.G. Sheftall鈥檚鈥淗iroshima: The Last Witnesses,鈥� a carefully and respectfully researched oral history, is no different.

Sep 9, 2024 6:13 AM Read more >

Mattea Roach, host of new literary radio show 'Bookends,' on their love of reading

TORONTO 鈥� 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.

Sep 7, 2024 3:00 AM Read more >

'Demon Copperhead' author Barbara Kingsolver to receive National Book Award for lifetime achievement

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� 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.

Sep 6, 2024 8:12 AM Read more >

Carol Off wants her new book about divisive language to eventually become irrelevant

TORONTO 鈥� Carol Off hopes her latest book will become irrelevant as the years pass. She fears it will not.

Sep 6, 2024 1:00 AM Read more >

Fictional sleuth Sam Spade will be back on the job in upcoming novel by Max Allan Collins

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� The story of one of the great fictional sleuths, Dashiell Hammett 's Sam Spade, will be continued by prize-winning crime writer Max Allan Collins.

Sep 5, 2024 11:00 AM Read more >

An appeals court upholds a ruling that an online archive's book sharing violated copyright law

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� An appeals court has upheld an earlier finding that the online Internet Archive violated copyright law by scanning and sharing digital books without the publishers' permission.

Sep 4, 2024 2:32 PM Read more >

Giller Prize releases long list, drops Scotiabank from name

TORONTO 鈥� The group of authors in contention for this year鈥檚 $100,000 Giller Prize has been whittled down to 12, but one name is notably absent from the list: Scotiabank.

Sep 4, 2024 2:16 PM Read more >

Appeals court upholds ruling that online archive's book sharing violated copyright law

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� An appeals court has upheld an earlier finding that the online Internet Archive violated copyright law by scanning and sharing digital books without the publishers' permission.

Sep 4, 2024 1:59 PM Read more >

Daddy Yankee's memoir, 'ReaDY! The Power To Change Your Story,' will be out in April

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Latin music superstar Daddy Yankee , the Grammy winning 鈥淜ing of Reggaeton,鈥� hopes his memoir will inspire others to believe in themselves.

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