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Christina Applegate will tell the story of her life and career in a new memoir.

Fanny Howe, the author of dozens of poetry collections and novels, has died at 84, the New York Times reports. Howe grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was educated at Stanford University. Her ...

Podcasting is an enormous industry, reportedly bringing in over $7 billion of revenue in 2024. Podcasts are not only ...

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The New York–based Center for Fiction announced that Haruki Murakami is the winner of its 2025 Lifetime of Excellence in Fiction Award, given to “a writer who, through their exceptional body of work, ...

Jenna Bush Hager’s latest Today show book club selection is The Names by Florence Knapp.

A maritime bookend of sorts to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, British journalist Elmhirst’s narrative turns on two 1960s-era British dreamers who decided to pitch it all in and sail from grim, gray ...

The Nobel Prize–winning author and psychologist Daniel Kahneman’s death last year was the result of an assisted suicide, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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Michael Lewis stopped by ABC News Live Prime to discuss the new book he edited, Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service.