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Five questions for NPR's Bailey White

2 hours 56 min ago
For more than a decade, Bailey White has shared a Thanksgiving story with listeners of NPR's All Things Considered. The fictional ...

Gordon-Reed's 'Hemingses' wins National Book Award

Wed, 11/19/2008 - 11:47pm
A history of a president's secret slave family and a revised novel, shaped out of a previous trilogy, won the top prizes Wednesday ...

Book roundup: Fiction, in brief

Wed, 11/19/2008 - 11:35pm
Reviews of The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti, Serena by Ron Rash, The Shiksa Syndrome by Laurie Graff and The Toss of a Lemon by ...

Book buzz: Top sellers, 'Suns' shines, warm 'Christmas'

Wed, 11/19/2008 - 11:17pm
Seven new hardcovers land in the Top 50 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list; A Thousand Splendid Suns is out in paperback, ...

Sister Souljah rejects any labels on her literary output

Wed, 11/19/2008 - 8:54pm
Sister Souljah, activist, novelist, former hip-hop performer and cultural lightning rod, has been hailed as a star of "urban ...

Add 'Eleventh Man' to Ivan Doig's best yarns

Tue, 11/18/2008 - 1:29pm
Ivan Doig, who blends the skills of novelist and historian, was researching another book when he lucked onto a forgotten but ...

Malcolm Gladwell's 'Success' defines 'outlier' achievement

Tue, 11/18/2008 - 12:53pm
"Outlier." If Malcolm Gladwell has his way, that uncommon word soon will be tripping off everyone's tongue.

Neil Gaiman to design a demise for Batman

Mon, 11/17/2008 - 10:59pm
Neil Gaiman is writing a two-issue tribute to the comic-book hero, starting with Batman #686 and tentatively titled Whatever ...

Christopher Plummer gets wordy, naughty and nice 'In Spite of Myself'

Mon, 11/17/2008 - 2:22pm
For some public figures, the memoir can be a means of self-defense or catharsis. Not so Christopher Plummer, bless his heart, ...

Denis Leary: Why we succumb to being 'Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid'

Mon, 11/17/2008 - 11:51am
Denis Leary's Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid isn't even out yet, and already the book has ...

Stephen King sends shivers with 'Just After Sunset' stories

Fri, 11/14/2008 - 1:15pm
In Just After Sunset, Stephen King's first short-story collection since 2002's Everything's Eventual, the author casts his creative ...

Slavery of a different sort toils in Toni Morrison's 'A Mercy'

Fri, 11/14/2008 - 1:14pm
In both print and her public persona, Toni Morrison is an original thinker. She once famously called Bill Clinton our first black ...

P.D. James is on the case

Thu, 11/13/2008 - 12:01pm
P.D. James, the grande dame of British crime fiction, has just published her 18th novel, The Private Patient (Knopf, $25.95, ...

Book Buzz: Crichton, 'Stone Diaries,' Souljah's 'Love Story'

Thu, 11/13/2008 - 12:21am
A new Michael Crichton book had been scheduled to be released in May. But that apparently won't happen. Carol Shields' The Stone ...

New voices: Lucy Knisley

Wed, 11/12/2008 - 8:04pm
The graphic travelogue French Milk author Lucy Knisley calls it a "drawn journal" recounts a six-week trip to Paris that Knisley ...

Books written and inspired by Obama get an election boost

Wed, 11/12/2008 - 10:17am
With a huge election bounce, sales of books by and about President-elect Barack Obama are soaring: The Audacity of Hope, his ...

Fretful booksellers count on name authors for holiday sales

Mon, 11/10/2008 - 11:48pm
Booksellers and publishers are hoping a post-election flood of titles by brand-name authors can rescue their holiday season, ...

Fretful booksellers count on name authors for holiday sales

Mon, 11/10/2008 - 11:48pm
Booksellers and publishers are hoping a post-election flood of titles by brand-name authors can rescue their holiday season, ...

Stephen King sends shivers with 'Just After Sunset' stories

Mon, 11/10/2008 - 8:13pm
In Just After Sunset, Stephen King's first short-story collection since 2002's Everything's Eventual, the author casts his creative ...

'Boiled': A long-lost Beatnik mystery bubbles up

Mon, 11/10/2008 - 7:32pm
In 1945, two unknown and unpublished writers Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs collaborated on a novel based on a real-life ...