Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022
By BERNARD McGHEE - Associated Press
One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II.In her 70…
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Steve Martin, Harry Bliss team up on ‘Number One Is Walking’
By HILLEL ITALIE - AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Martin has this funny theory about artists and careers, spelled out with comic timing.“You…
6 popular Black authors co-write teen romance ‘Whiteout’
BY HILLEL ITALIE - AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Dhonielle Clayton is not just a bestselling author of young adult fiction. She's an organizer, a…
Gayl Jones, Tommie Smith among National Book Award finalists
By HILLEL ITALIE - AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Gayl Jones' “The Birdcatcher,” a short, lyrical novel about a writer's trip to Ibiza and the…
Review: Liked ‘Station Eleven?’ Read ‘Sea of Tranquility’
By ROB MERRILL - Associated Press
“Sea of Tranquility” by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf)Add another talent to Emily St. John Mandel’s impressive resume…
Inspired by her mother, Isabel Allende publishes ‘Violeta’
MIAMI (AP) — Shortly before the coronavirus pandemic…
Iran’s Iraj Pezeshkzad, who wrote ‘My Uncle Napoleon,’ dies
Iran's semiofficial ISNA news agency quoted Davood Mosaei, who published Pezeshkzad’s books, as confirming his death on Wednesday. No cause of death was immediately offered. Foreign-based…
Rare Toni Morrison short story to be published as a book
“Recitatif” refers to a musical expression defined by Merriam-Webster as “a rhythmically free vocal style that imitates the natural inflections of speech,” a style Morrison's often…
Rare Toni Morrison short story to be published this month
“Recitatif” refers to a musical expression defined by Merriam-Webster as “a rhythmically free vocal style that imitates the natural inflections of speech,” a style Morrison's often…