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Sister Souljah rejects any labels on her literary output

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:07:55 GMT

Sister Souljah, activist, novelist, former hip-hop performer and cultural lightning rod, has been hailed as a star of "urban ...

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:07:31 GMT

A history of a president's secret slave family and a revised novel, shaped out of a previous trilogy, won the top prizes Wednesday ...

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:35:12 GMT

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 ...

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:17:59 GMT

Seven new hardcovers land in the Top 50 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list; A Thousand Splendid Suns is out in paperback, ...

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:50:13 GMT

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

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:53:21 GMT

"Outlier." If Malcolm Gladwell has his way, that uncommon word soon will be tripping off everyone's tongue.

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:29:11 GMT

Ivan Doig, who blends the skills of novelist and historian, was researching another book when he lucked onto a forgotten but ...

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:22:00 GMT

For some public figures, the memoir can be a means of self-defense or catharsis. Not so Christopher Plummer, bless his heart, ...

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:59:59 GMT

Neil Gaiman is writing a two-issue tribute to the comic-book hero, starting with Batman #686 and tentatively titled Whatever ...

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:51:55 GMT

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 ...

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:01:39 GMT

P.D. James, the grande dame of British crime fiction, has just published her 18th novel, The Private Patient (Knopf, $25.95, ...

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:14:29 GMT

In both print and her public persona, Toni Morrison is an original thinker. She once famously called Bill Clinton our first black ...

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:21:50 GMT

A new Michael Crichton book had been scheduled to be released in May. But that apparently won't happen. Carol Shields' The Stone ...

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:04:16 GMT

The graphic travelogue French Milk author Lucy Knisley calls it a "drawn journal" recounts a six-week trip to Paris that Knisley ...

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:17:02 GMT

With a huge election bounce, sales of books by and about President-elect Barack Obama are soaring: The Audacity of Hope, his ...