STATE COLLEGE — At a time when people are inundated with advice to optimize, pivot, reinvent and become the best version of themselves, author Liz Holtzinger is asking: What if the answer isn’t becoming someone new? What if it’s learning to trust yourself again? In her new book, ...
LONDON — American novelist Virginia Evans won the Women’s Prize for Fiction on Thursday with “The Correspondent,” a word-of-mouth bestseller that made her a literary star after seven unpublished novels. Canadian journalist Lyse Doucet won the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction with “The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan.” Both prizes come with a 30,000 pound ($40,000) purse and are open to female English-language writers from any country. Evans wrote fiction for two decades before writing “The Correspondent” during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it ...
NEW YORK — Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick also has the blessing of a second literary tastemaker, Jenna Bush Hager. Winfrey announced recently that she had selected Sophie Chen Keller’s “Little Wonder,” which has just been published. Keller’s novel was released by Hager’s Thousand Voices imprint, in partnership with Penguin Random House. Set in China, “Little Wonder” is the story of a food delivery worker and her gifted son, a musical prodigy who gets lost in Beijing. “I was riveted in hopeful anticipation of the outcome of this unforgettable journey of a ...
Hardcover Fiction 1. “Harvest Season” by Brynne Weaver (Slowburn) 2. “Whistler” by Ann Patchett (Harper) 3. “Yesteryear” by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf) 4. “Light Wielder” by Rachel Schneider (Saturday) 5. “The Calamity Club” by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau) 6. “Rocket’s Red Glare” by Patterson/Eversmann (Little, Brown) 7. “Our Perfect Storm” by Carley Fortune (Berkley) 8. “Land” by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf) 9. “The Midnight Train” by Matt Haig (Viking) 10. “Daughters of the Sun and Moon” by Lisa See (Scribner) 11. “The Ballad of ...
Hardcover Fiction 1. “Whistler” by Ann Patchett (Harper) 2. “Yesteryear” by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf) 3. “Land” by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf) 4. “Road Trip” by Mary Kay Andrews (St. Martin’s) 5. “The Calamity Club” by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau) 6. “Our Perfect Storm” by Carley Fortune (Berkley) 7. “The Midnight Train” by Matt Haig (Viking) 8. “The Final Target” by Nora Roberts (St. Martin’s) 9. “The Ballad of Falling Dragons” by Sarah A. Parker (Avon) 10. “Kissed by the Gods (deluxe ed.)” by Caty Rogan ...
NEW YORK — When World War I broke out in 1914, Edith Wharton’s initial response was less as a storyteller in search of material than as a citizen and intrepid witness. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The House of Mirth,” “The Custom of the Country” and other probing stories ...
