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The other day, a friend sent me a link to something called “manuscript wishlist” — a Twitter thread (#MSWL) from literary agents who are looking for …
STOCKHOLM (AFP) — American children’s author Meg Rosoff on Tuesday won the 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for young people’s literature, the …
NEW YORK (AP) — Even for someone as loved as Tina Fey, a reported $6 million advance seemed like a lot of money for a book of essays. But five years …
“Dimestore: A Writer’s Life” By Lee Smith Algonquin Books (202 pages, $24.95) Lee Smith’s parents raised her to leave the Appalachian town of Grundy, …
“High Dive” By Jonathan Lee Knopf (336 pages, $25.95) Jonathan Lee’s new novel “High Dive” reimagines the weeks leading up to the Grand Hotel bombing …
“The Caped Crusade” by Glen Weldon Simon & Schuster (325 pages, $26) Batman has been a lot of things during the past 77 years: a gun-toting vigilante, …
MIAMI (AFP) – A friendly international competition to encourage exercise using pedometers and online tools was successful in helping people lose weight …
BEIJING (AP) — Stuffed into a tiny room off an alleyway are items that Wang Jinming readily admits were put out with the garbage: Paper string, a needle …
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) — The director of Russia’s renowned Hermitage Museum, which has an important collection of sculptures from Palmyra, has …
NEW YORK (AP) — The kitchen hums with activity. Rachana Rimal is at one table, making momos, the traditional dumplings from her native Nepal. Next to …