LOS ANGELES — “Task” has tense standoffs between not-too-different cops and criminals. It has gunfights in the woods and heists that turn into bloodbaths that turn into kidnappings. Yet the HBO show’s most dramatic and essential moment may be a guy reading from a piece of paper. It ...
Maurice Martin, 12, polishes the tires and wheels of his brother Philip’s Volkswagen Jetta at their home in North Woodbury Township on Friday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
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 ...
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for Fiction on Thursday with “The Correspondent,” a word-of-mouth bestseller that made her a literary star after seven unpublished novels.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 ...
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, ...
Hardcover Fiction 1. “Yesteryear” by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf) 2. “Whistler” by Ann Patchett (Harper) 3. “The Calamity Club” by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau) 4. “Our Perfect Storm” by Carley Fortune (Berkley) 5. “Rocket’s Red Glare” by Patterson/Eversmann (Little, Brown) 6. “Choke Point” by Brad Thor (Atria) 7. “Harvest Season” by Brynne Weaver (Slowburn) 8. “A Parade of Horribles” by Matt Dinniman (Ace) 9. “The Raven at the Ash Door” by K.A. Linde (Red Tower) 10. “This Inevitable Ruin” by Matt Dinniman (Ace) 11. ...
