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NEW YORK (AP) — “Sure I'll Join Your Cult,” by Maria Bamford (Simon & Schuster) Comedian Maria Bamford has been a comic and actor for more than two decades, her high voice and quirky persona gracing countless stand-up stages and the occasional TV

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NEW YORK (AP) — The editor of such best-selling novels as Liane Moriarty's “Big Little Lies” and Kathryn Stockett's “The Help” is joining a division of Penguin Random House.

NEW YORK (AP) — Novels by Jesmyn Ward and James McBride and story collections by Jamal Brinkley and Kelly Link are among the finalists Wednesday for the 10th annual Kirkus Prizes, for which winners in fiction, nonfiction and young reader's literature

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. After That Night by Karin Slaughter (William Morrow) 2. Dead Mountain by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (Grand Central Publishing) 3. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (Celadon Books) 4.

“Holler, Child” by LaToya Watkins (Tiny Reparations Books) LaToya Watkins has surpassed the high bar set by her beautifully crushing debut novel , “Perish,” with a collection of short stories titled “Holler, Child.

NEW YORK (AP) — One year ahead of the 2024 election, don't expect many new books about the presumed front-runners, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

NEW YORK (AP) — The next book from “Fire and Fury” author Michael Wolff is both a recounting of the recent past and a prediction for the near future. Wolff's “The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty” will come out Sept.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's second-largest school district says that it has removed two books from 20 school libraries, saying the books had “highly inappropriate, sexually explicit content.

A new report from Statistics Canada says the return of live shows and events after pandemic restrictions revived the country's performing arts industry in 2022, with significant revenue and salary growth in specific sectors.