The New York Public Library revealed its list of the city’s most checked-out books of 2025, with Percival Everett’s James the most popular title among readers across all five boroughs. While the New ...

Taking the No. 2 spot in PEN America’s report was Jodi Picoult’s school-shooting novel Nineteen Minutes, followed by Patricia McCormick’s Sold at No. 3, Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a ...

Hiaasen’s books have been adapted for the screen before. His 1993 novel, Strip Tease, formed the basis for the 1996 film Striptease starring Demi Moore and Armand Assante, and his 2002 children’s book ...

A “patchwork-quilt memoir” by Siri Hustvedt about the death of her husband, novelist Paul Auster, is coming in 2026. Simon & Schuster will publish Hustvedt’s Ghost Stories next spring, the press ...

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The Booker Prize has announced the judges for its 2026 award.

Large language models (LLMs), more commonly referred to as artificial intelligence (AI), swept the copywriting space much faster ...

Tortured poets aren’t the only writers that Taylor Swift likes. The massively popular singer-songwriter discussed her favorite types of books on the Late Show with host Stephen Colbert in a ...

Darrell Kinsey has won the Center for Fiction’s 2025 First Novel Prize for Natch.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a Texas county’s ban of 17 books from its public library system, the Texas Tribune reports.

Journalist and author Olivia Nuzzi will leave her role as the West Coast editor of Vanity Fair magazine, the New York Times reports.