Dec 12 2021: Anne Rice, author of the best-selling Vampire Chronicles novel series, died December 11 from complications resulting from a stroke, her son Christopher announced on social media. She was 80 years old.
Rice's biggest success was her first novel, Interview with the ...
Dec 10 2021: The Association of American Publishers filed suit December 9 to stop a new library e-book law in Maryland from taking effect on January 1, claiming that the law, which would require publishers who offer to license e-books to consumers in the state to also offer to ...
Dec 06 2021: Two Iowa Republican leaders said they want to pursue legislation that makes it a felony offense for school officials, including teachers, to provide "obscene materials" to students.
Prior to November's school board elections, community members in Iowa and across the ...
Dec 01 2021: Author Alice Sebold apologized to a man who last week was exonerated of her rape, a crime she wrote about in her memoir Lucky, but the writer also appeared to place as much blame on a "flawed legal system" as she did on the role she played in his conviction...
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Nov 24 2021: Shortlists in five categories have been announced for the 2021 Costa Book Awards, recognizing some of the most enjoyable books published in the last year by authors living in the U.K. and Ireland. Category winners will be announced January 4, and the overall winner of ...
Nov 24 2021: In a year that has seen the musician Grimes sell a collection of digital artworks for almost $6m (£4.4m), and the original photo behind the 2005 Disaster Girl meme go for $473,000 (£354,000), Collins Dictionary has made NFT, the abbreviation for non-fungible token, its ...
Nov 23 2021: The poet Robert Bly, who counted the National Book Award and the Poetry Society of America’s Frost Medal among his many honours, has died. He was 94.
The Star Tribune newspaper, in his native Minnesota, said Bly died on Sunday. His daughter, Mary Bly, told the ...
Nov 15 2021: Petra Mayer, a beloved books editor on NPR's Culture desk, died on Saturday.
She died suddenly at Holy Cross Hospital in Maryland of what's believed to be a pulmonary embolism, said Nancy Barnes, NPR's senior vice president for news, in an email to staff.
"Petra ...
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