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Book Review: Glamour and tragedy intertwine in Griffin Dunne’s memoir ‘The Friday Afternoon Club’
Actor and producer Griffin Dunne grew up in New York and Los Angeles with the glitterati all around. His father, Dominick Dunne, a television executive and film producer when Dunne was young, liked to hobnob with the rich and famous.
Jun 10, 2024 2:10 PM
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Book Review: Katie Ledecky dishes on what makes an Olympic legend in ‘Just Add Water'
Katie Ledecky didn’t dream of becoming an Olympian as a kid. It was just something she and her brother, Michael, did at a pool in Maryland that she describes as “maximum chill.
Jun 10, 2024 12:13 PM
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Book Review: Carol LaHines' chilling novel chronicles a jilted woman’s descent into madness
It’s no accident that the narrator of Carol LaHines’s second novel, “The Vixen Amber Halloway,” is a literature professor named Ophelia.
Jun 10, 2024 11:25 AM
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Book Review: ‘Miss May Does Not Exist’ is an engaging study of enigmatic Hollywood figure Elaine May
Groundbreaking comedian, writer and filmmaker Elaine May charted her own fearlessly original path in Hollywood and the theater world over the decades.
Jun 10, 2024 10:59 AM
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Ursula K. Le Guin's home will become a writers residency
Theo Downes-Le Guin, son of the late author Ursula K. Le Guin, remembers well the second-floor room where his mother worked on some of her most famous novels. Or at least how it seemed from the outside.
Jun 10, 2024 6:01 AM
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Mohawk writer Alicia Elliott wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award
TORONTO — Alicia Elliott has won the prestigious Amazon Canada First Novel Award.
Jun 6, 2024 7:00 PM
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A Texas county removed 17 books from its libraries. An appeals court says eight must be returned.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Eight books dealing with subjects including racism and transgender issues must be returned to library shelves in a rural Texas county that had removed them in an ongoing book banning controversy , a divided panel of three federal a
Jun 6, 2024 5:13 PM
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A new 'Hunger Games' book - and movie - is coming
NEW YORK (AP) — Inspired by an 18th century Scottish philosopher and the modern scourge of misinformation, Suzanne Collins is returning to the ravaged, post-apocalyptic land of Panem for a new “The Hunger Games” novel.
Jun 6, 2024 10:31 AM
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Canadian translator, Mexican poet win Griffin Poetry Prize
TORONTO — Canadian poet-translator George McWhirter stood alone at a lectern Wednesday night to accept the Griffin Poetry Prize he earned with his friend and longtime collaborator Homero Aridjis.
Jun 5, 2024 9:06 PM
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Colson Whitehead's 'Crook Manifesto' wins $50,000 Gotham Prize for outstanding book about NYC
NEW YORK (AP) — Colson Whitehead's latest literary honor feels very much at home.
Jun 5, 2024 6:07 AM
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