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Caribbean literature to read this summer.

Debut novel 'The God of Good Looks' adds to growing canon of Caribbean literature

9:08am June 17, 2023

by Carole V. Bell

A growing number of high-profile novels are coming out of the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. And the region has long been punching above its weight on the international literary scene.

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Before Cormac McCarthy's death, he gave fans 2 new novels after 16 years of waiting

8:01am June 17, 2023

by John Burnett

A look back at how Cormac McCarthy's last two novels, published late last year, came to be. The author died this week at 89.

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A husband and wife reimagine fairy tales with Black children in mind

5:00am June 16, 2023

by Destinee Adams

In their latest book CROWNED: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora, Kahran and Regis Bethencourt retell fairy and folk tales with Black children as the main characters.

Editor to many great authors, Robert Gottlieb has died at 92

4:55pm June 15, 2023

by Chloe Veltman

Robert Gottlieb was the editor of powerful authors like Robert Caro, Toni Morrison, Joseph Heller and Nora Ephron. Gottlieb has died at age 92.

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In 'Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge,' Helen Ellis' home life takes center stage

9:56am June 15, 2023

by Heller McAlpin

Ellis' latest collection is full of hilarious, off-the-wall personal — and, at times, intimate — essays about home life and marriage.

Barry Allen/The Flash (Ezra Miller) is full of running gags.

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'The Flash' throws off intermittent sparks

5:00am June 15, 2023

by Glen Weldon

The latest DC film seeks to reboot Warners' troubled cinematic universe. The script boasts solid jokes and knowing winks, but flat characterizations keep it from taking off.

'Jeopardy!' host Ken Jennings says afterlife depictions track pop culture's evolution

7:29pm June 14, 2023

Jeopardy! champion and host Ken Jennings rose to fame for knowing nearly everything about anything. Now he's written a book on destinations of the afterlife called 100 Places to See After You Die.

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This image released by Knopf shows Robert Gottlieb. Gottlieb, the inspired and eclectic literary editor whose brilliant career was launched with Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison's Beloved and Robert Caro's The Power Broker, has died at age 92.

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Robert Gottlieb, celebrated editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, has died at 92

7:00pm June 14, 2023

by The Associated Press

Gottlieb, whose work helped shape the modern publishing canon, edited fiction by future Nobel laureates, spy novels by John le Carré, essays by Nora Ephron and Caro's nonfiction epics.

Jennings had a remarkable Jeopardy! run.

Ken Jennings knows about everything. That now includes the afterlife

5:25pm June 14, 2023

by Manuela López Restrepo

You might know Ken Jennings as the Jeopardy! genius-turned host. But he's also an author, and a guy who really wants to know stuff.

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'An Amerikan Family' traces the legacy of Tupac Shakur's influential family

3:11pm June 14, 2023

by Tonya Mosley

The late rapper — who was killed at 25 in 1996 — would have turned 52 this year. Santi Elijah Holley's new book follows the Shakur family tree and their work in the Black Liberation Movement.

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