NEW YORK — After a decades-long run as one of the world’s most acclaimed novelists, Ian McEwan has compiled his occasional nonfiction into a full-length book. McEwan’s essay and speech collection “Between Books” will be published next spring, May 25, Alfred A. Knopf announced ...
NEW YORK — As Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale nears his 90th birthday, he is set to reissue his 1970 jailhouse memoir “Seize the Time” and follow it up with a new book, “I, Bobby.” “Every time somebody tells my story wrong, a piece of the movement gets buried with the lie,” Seale said in a statement issued Tuesday by Blackstone Publishing. “’Seize the Time’ was the blueprint and the start. ‘I, Bobby’ is me finishing what I started — with my own voice, my own memory and my own words.” “Seize the Time” will come out in February, and “I, Bobby” ...
NEW YORK — Quentin Tarantino has stepped back from directing in recent years, but he continues to build upon his career as an author. The upcoming spinoff from his “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood” will be accompanied by Tarantino’s novelization of the new film. The Oscar-winning filmmaker’s second novelization, “The Adventures of Cliff Booth,” will come out Dec. 8. It’s Tarantino’s take on “The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth,” in which Brad Pitt returns in the title role as a former Hollywood stuntman. David Fincher is directing, from a ...
They say that a woman’s work is never done. And OK, maybe you share the chores but there’s cooking, kid-work, cleaning, you’re the official-unofficial Keep-Tracker of All Things, and that’s just at home. At work, something’s always cooking and then you clean up. Is there such a ...
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "The Thoroughbreds" by Hilderbrand/Cunningham (Little, Brown) 2. "Dead Beat" by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron) 3. "Hollow Bones" by Jodi Picoult (Ballantine) 4. "The Calamity Club" by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau) 5. "The Altar of Pergamon" by Jonathan Cahn (Frontline) 6. "Exit Party" by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf) 7. "The Emperor's Enemy (deluxe ed.)" by Jasmine Mas (Mira) 8. "Eldritch (deluxe ed.)" by Keri Lake (Bloom) 9. "Yesteryear" by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf) 10. "We Chase Shadows" by Richard Osman (Viking/Dorman) 11. "Whistler" by Ann ...
LONDON — Marlon James and Douglas Stuart have a chance to become only the fifth author to win the Booker Prize twice after both were named Tuesday on the shortlist for arguably the U.K.’s most prestigious fiction accolade. Judges of the award whittled down the 13 semifinalists announced in July to six on Tuesday and said the shortlisted books are “moving, pacey, funny, violent, intriguing, horrifying and hopeful.” They were selected from an original 163 submissions. The Booker Prize celebrates the best works of long-form fiction by writers of any nationality, written in ...
