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Philadelphia honors children's book illustrator, native son

Jul 20, 2016

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Celebrated children’s book illustrator Jerry Pinkney received some brotherly love Tuesday in his hometown, where he was honored for his career achievements. Pinkney, whose drawi...
‘Twilight’ author writes spy thriller ‘The Chemist’

Jul 20, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) – “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer's next novel is a thriller, without vampires. Little, Brown and Co. announced Tuesday that “The Chemist” will be published Nov. 15. The company says...
Crime is stranger than fiction

Jul 13, 2016

“Murder at the 42nd Street Library” By Con Lehane; Minotaur (320 pages, $25.99) The beautiful and iconic New York Public Library on 42nd Street in Manhattan -- with its stone lions in front, multi...
The good, the bad, the difficult

Jul 13, 2016

“Dinner With Edward” By Isabel Vincent Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (213 pages, $23.95) Isabel Vincent's marriage was on the verge of ending when a friend introduced her to Edward, a man whose w...
Honest observations on farming life

Jul 13, 2016

“Dear County Agent Guy” By Jerry Nelson Workman (207 pages, $14.95) I should have seen this coming, seen that Jerry Nelson's essays about farming weren’t quite what they seemed. I' a farmer’s daug...
‘Hamilton: The Revolution’: How a hip-hop Broadway musical became an American obsession

Jul 13, 2016

"Hamilton: The Revolution,” by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter. (Amazon-TNS) “Hamilton: The Revolution” By Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter Grand Central Publishing (288 pages, $40) ...
Philip Onho Lee captures daily grind of immigrant life in U.S.

Jul 6, 2016

“Olympic Boulevard” Philip Onho Lee (Translated by John Cha) Seoul Selection (12,000 won, $10) Philip Onho Lee’s “Olympic Boulevard,” published last month, details the daily joys and sorrows of im...
Nothing disappointing about ‘The Loney’

Jul 6, 2016

“The Loney” By Andrew Michael Hurley Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (294 pages, $25) A menacing presence inhabits the Loney, the locals’ name for Britain’s north Lancashire coastline. A small group of...
Talese will promote new book, backs off earlier comments

Jul 6, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) -- Gay Talese has disavowed his disavowal. A day after saying the credibility of his upcoming book, “The Voyeur‘s Motel,” was “down the toilet” because he felt he had been deceived by ...
Saint-Exupery’s Spanish civil war press pass found

Jul 6, 2016

MADRID (AFP) -- An amateur historian has found the press pass issued to French writer and pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery when he covered Spain‘s 1936-39 civil war for several French newspapers, offic...
Book probes Ohio’s role as national presidential bellwether

Jul 6, 2016

CINCINNATI (AP) -- Just in time for the Cleveland-hosted Republican National Convention this month and as the general election campaign heats up, a new book, “The Bellwether,” examines Ohio’s importa...
CNN’s Sally Kohn writing book on civility

Jun 30, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) -- CNN political commentator Sally Kohn, who has heard a lot of trash talk in her job, is working on a book about the benefits of civility. Algonquin Books, a division of Workman Publ...
J.K. Rowling‘s latest tale of wizardry set in Massachusetts

Jun 29, 2016

BOSTON (AP) -- J.K. Rowling's latest tale of wizardry is set atop the mountains in Massachusetts. The second installment in a collection called "Magic in North America" describes a secret wizarding ...
[Herald Interview] CICI chief Choi takes modern look at Korean culture

Jun 27, 2016

Choi Jung-wha, a professor at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, has released the English version of her new book, “K-Style: Living the Korean Way of Life,” which delves deep into the evolutio...
[Herald Interview] Poetry in a world with no answers

Jun 22, 2016

Prolific translator, professor Brother Anthony discusses poetry past and present