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- Mark Halperin 2020 election book to publish despite protests about harassment allegations
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 10:06 PMMark Halperin's planned book about the 2020 election has been announced amid protests that the "Game Change" co-author hasn't earned a second chance.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Paule Marshall, author of 'Daughters,' 'Brown Girl, Brownstones,' dead at 90
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 12:13 PMNovelist Paule Marshall died Monday in Richmond, Virginia after suffering dementia in recent years, her son told The Associated Press.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Your memoir reading list: 'Educated' and five others that humble and inspire
Tuesday - 08/13/2019 - 06:05 PMLooking to be inspired? Here's a round-up of formidable memoirs, beginning with Tara Westover's "Educated."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 5 books not to miss: ‘Bitterroots,’ ‘Oysterville Sewing Circle,’ Sister Helen Prejean's memoir
Saturday - 08/10/2019 - 08:00 AMA P.I. stands up to a powerful family in C.J. Box's "The Bitterroots," and "The Tiger's Wife" writer Téa Obreht returns with the haunting "Inland."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Toni Morrison's most notable quotes about life, race and storytelling
Wednesday - 08/07/2019 - 09:12 AMThe world is mourning Toni Morrison, the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her unique voice lives on: read her most notable quotes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Toni Morrison: Her life in pictures
Tuesday - 08/06/2019 - 11:09 AMToni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning author, died Aug. 5 in New York at age 88.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Barack Obama mourns death of Toni Morrison: 'Her stories will always be with us'
Tuesday - 08/06/2019 - 12:43 PMBarack Obama Shonda Rhimes, Roxane Gay, Chance the Rapper and more prominent figures mourned novelist Toni Morrison, who died at age 88.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mona Lisa lasers? 'Sex and the City's' Candace Bushnell decodes dating after 50
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Monday - 08/05/2019 - 08:53 PMIn her new book, "Is There Still Sex in the City?" Candace Bushnell puts a magnifying glass to life after divorce in your fifties and sixties.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Meghan McCain to release audiobook next year discussing dad John McCain, politics
Friday - 08/02/2019 - 12:38 PMMeghan McCain will be coming out with an audiobook next year where she will share her thoughts on politics and her family.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Edward Snowden memoir, 'Permanent Record,' coming in September
Thursday - 08/01/2019 - 09:56 AMMetropolitan Books announced Thursday that Snowden’s “Permanent Record” will be released simultaneously in more than 20 countries.
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- 5 books not to miss: Philippa Gregory’s ‘Tidelands,’ Rob Hart's 'The Warehouse'
Sunday - 08/18/2019 - 09:00 AMPhilippa Gregory explores the life of a 17th-century midwife in "Tidelands," and Rob Hart goes dystopian for futuristic thriller "The Warehouse."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette': The biggest differences between the book and the movie
Thursday - 08/15/2019 - 11:30 AMThere are key differences in Maria Semple's 2012 best-seller "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" and the new film adaptation starring Cate Blanchett.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - At last! J.D. Salinger's books (including 'Catcher in the Rye') are going digital
Sunday - 08/11/2019 - 06:45 PMFour of J.D. Salinger's books, including 'The Catcher in the Rye' and 'Franny and Zooey,' will arrive as ebooks this week, his publisher says.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 20 classics every American should read, according to English professors
Friday - 08/09/2019 - 02:04 PM24/7 Tempo reached out to several English professors to compile a list of 20 English literature classics everyone should read at least once.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Timothy C. Winegard's 'The Mosquito' a fascinating history of a small but mighty menace
Tuesday - 08/06/2019 - 09:00 AMWinegard’s 400-plus-page expedition explores the vast impact of the mosquito, a small but mighty pest that has shaped human history.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize winner, author of 'Beloved,' dies at 88
Tuesday - 08/06/2019 - 01:31 PMToni Morrison, the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is gone. But her unique voice endures in novels like "Beloved."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - John Steinbeck lawsuit: Judges to hear appeal over control of author's classic works
Monday - 08/05/2019 - 08:33 PMAnother chapter is set to play out this week in a decades-old family dispute over control of the classic works by author John Steinbeck.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Gods of the Upper Air': How renegade anthropologists studied, celebrated 'the other'
Monday - 08/05/2019 - 12:42 PMFranz Boas was the Pied Piper of modern American anthropology, and taught his students to look at other societies with an open mind.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Best-selling author Sherrilyn Kenyon drops lawsuit accusing her husband of poisoning her
Wednesday - 07/31/2019 - 07:58 PMAuthor Sherrilyn Kenyon, who filed suit against her husband accusing him of orchestrating a scheme to poison her to death, has dismissed her case.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo makes welcome return with 'Chances Are...'
Tuesday - 07/30/2019 - 09:00 AMRichard Russo's first standalone novel since 2009 is a prestige take on a mystery novel centered on three old male friends in Martha's vineyard.
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- The stories in Rion Amilcar Scott's 'The World Doesn’t Require You' stun and challenge
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 11:41 AMAward-winning author Rion Amilcar Scott challenges and rewards readers with a bleak but beautiful new collection of short stories.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - MSNBC reporter says manager told her 'don't look too Latina' at White House Correspondents' Dinner
Thursday - 08/15/2019 - 09:42 AMMSNBC reporter Mariana Atencio says a higher-up at the company told her to not "look too Latina" at the 2017 White House Correspondents' Dinner.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Téa Obreht follows up 'The Tiger's Wife' with 'Inland' a haunted, fantastical Western
Tuesday - 08/13/2019 - 11:41 AMTéa Obreht follows up her best-selling, award-winning debut "The Tiger's Wife" with "Inland," a phantasmagorical and dizzyingly beautiful Western.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Blondie singer Debbie Harry shares harrowing story of home-invasion rape in new memoir
Wednesday - 08/07/2019 - 03:21 PMIn her new memoir, "Face It," Blondie singer Debbie Harry reveals she was raped at knifepoint during a home invasion.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Toni Morrison was our greatest writer, and her stories about race our most essential
Tuesday - 08/06/2019 - 04:47 PMToni Morrison wrote about the black experience in an America that didn't want to confront its racist history. And she was the greatest writer we had.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Five essential Toni Morrison books you need to read, from 'Beloved' to 'The Bluest Eye'
Tuesday - 08/06/2019 - 12:36 PMWe round up five Toni Morrison books that are the author's most notable works of fiction, from "Beloved" to "The Bluest Eye."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hillary and Chelsea Clinton are writing their first book together about 'gutsy' women through history
Tuesday - 08/06/2019 - 06:47 AMHillary and Chelsea Clinton are writing “The Book of Gutsy Women,” honoring everyone from scientist Marie Curie to climate activist Greta Thunberg.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 5 books not to miss: 'Lost You' by Haylen Beck, 'The Birthday Girl,' 'Trick Mirror'
Saturday - 08/03/2019 - 09:00 AMHaylen Beck's "Lost You" and Melissa de la Cruz's "The Birthday Girl" are adrenaline-pumping summer thrillers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine book club selections: The complete list
Thursday - 08/01/2019 - 01:56 PMLooking for a good book? Actress, producer and passionate book-lover Reese Witherspoon has quite a few to recommend via her Hello Sunshine book club.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Shari Lapena thriller 'Someone We Know' preys on our worst fears about our neighbors
Wednesday - 07/31/2019 - 09:00 AMShari Lapena's latest novel begs the question, do you really know who lives next door?
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