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National Book Award long list for young people's literature has a poetic touch

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 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.

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Book Review: Brathwaite flexes his writing chops and expands Black literary canon with debut 'Rage'

Book Review: Brathwaite flexes his writing chops and expands Black literary canon with debut 'Rage'

There was a class at my university called Black Arts, Black Power. Lester Fabian Brathwaite鈥檚 鈥淩age鈥 would fit snugly right into that syllabus.
Book Review: 鈥楥ategory Five鈥 examines superstorms amid compelling personal memoir

Book Review: 鈥楥ategory Five鈥 examines superstorms amid compelling personal memoir

I graduated from Middlebury College with Porter Fox just over 30 years ago. We weren鈥檛 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.

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.
Book Review: Hiroshima bomb saga revisited with witness accounts

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

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 C小蓝视频's new literary radio show, "Bookends.
'Demon Copperhead' author Barbara Kingsolver to receive National Book Award for lifetime achievement

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

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

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.
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