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Barack, Michelle Obama sign bumper book deal: publisher

Mar 1, 2017

New York based publisher Penguin Random House has won the industry's most coveted contract: a two-for-one deal to produce the memoirs of former president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. ...
Playwright who inspired ‘Moonlight’ wins PEN award

Feb 23, 2017

The playwright who inspired the Oscar-nominated movie “Moonlight” has won a prize from PEN America, the literary and human rights organization. Tarell Alvin McCraney received an award for best midca...
Books on conservatism and rural whites up for Lukas Prize

Feb 22, 2017

Jane Mayer’s “Dark Money” and Zachary Roth’s “The Great Suppression” are among several works about the modern conservative movement and rural whites that are on the short list for the J. Anthony Luka...
Diaz, Nguyen contributing to book about age of Trump

Feb 14, 2017

Pulitzer Prize winners Junot Diaz, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Jane Smiley are among 32 writers contributing to a book of letters responding to the election of President Donald Trump. Vintage Books told T...
Margaret Atwood says Trump win boosted sales of her dystopian classic

Feb 13, 2017

Canada‘s best-known writer Margaret Atwood said it was largely worries about women’s issues after the US election that made her book “The Handmaid’s Tale” the latest dystopian novel to shoot back up ...
Stephen King and son Owen King to team up at book convention

Feb 8, 2017

NEW YORK (AP) -- This year’s BookExpo will feature a popular father-and-son combination: Stephen and Owen King. Convention organizers ReedPop told the Associated Press on Tuesday that the authors w...
UK newspaper to spotlight Korean poems in regular feature

Feb 7, 2017

Korean poems will become a regular feature in the Guardian newspaper this year. The poems -- selected in partnership with Asymptote, a website specializing in translations of literature -- will be f...
New book details old New Orleans’ hooker directories

Feb 5, 2017

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- “Josie came to this city ... to have a good time and she is going to have it while she lasts,” one madam advertised in a 1903 directory of Storyville, then New Orleans’ flourishin...
Coelho, local authors slam books seizure in east Libya

Jan 25, 2017

TRIPOLI (AFP) - Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho joined more than 100 Libyan writers and intellectuals Monday in condemning security forces for seizing books deemed “erotic” or anti-Islamic. Coelho’s...
Tips on using newspapers to learn English

Jan 23, 2017

“English Learning Tips Based on English Newspapers ENIE” by Yang Sung-jin; Surprise Publishing (272 pages, 15,000 won) English newspapers in South Korea have a long history. The Korea Herald, for in...
Book spurs rising above theological comfort zone

Jan 20, 2017

Evangelical Christians and reform-minded Protestants have reason to celebrate the recent publication of “Thinking the Think,” a book that critically engages their cherished beliefs and encourages the...
Korean novelist evokes horrors of Gwangju massacre

Jan 20, 2017

“Human Acts: A Novel” by Han Kang; Hogarth (224 pages, $22) In May of 1980, the South Korean government turned its guns on its own people, murdering hundreds in the city of Gwangju who had been prot...
Audiobooks boom in digital, multitasking age

Jan 19, 2017

NEW YORK (AFP) -- Curling up with a paperback may be a forgotten luxury for many thanks to today’s busy lifestyles, but listening to a book on the go, while shopping or jogging, is fast becoming the ...
‘Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films’ Review -- Molly Haskell trains her keen eye on the director

Jan 13, 2017

“Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films” By Molly Haskell Yale University Press (228 pages, $25) Film critics are not usually celebrated for their sense of charity. They’re not usually celebrated at al...
Korean edition of Playboy to be launched in June

Jan 11, 2017

US magazine “Playboy” will start issuing a Korean version from June, a South Korean magazine publisher said Tuesday. Playboy Enterprises, the owner of the magazine, has signed a contract with Korea’...