Entertainment Weekly: Book Coverage

• Review: 'The One Hundred Nights of Hero': EW Review

  

  What starts off as an homage to Scheherazade and her 1001 nights of storytelling quickly turns takes on a life (and story) of its own in Isabel Greenberg’s The One Hundred Nights of Hero. For her second graphic novel, the Eisner Awar…
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• Review: 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' script: EW Review

  

  A published screenplay is a different beast – though one no less fantastical – than full-length novel. Instead of inspiring readers’ imaginations about the worlds they’re meant to be depicting, a pu…
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• Review: 'Beyond the Truth' by Anne Holt: EW Review

  

  When you think of Scandinavian noir, names like Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, and Camilla Läckberg probably come to mind, not Anne Holt. That may be about to change. Holt—dubbed “the godmother of modern Norwegian crime…
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• Review: 'Talking as Fast as I Can' by Lauren Graham: EW Review

  

  Through a handful of essays, Graham shares stories from her early days as a struggling actress as well as behind-the-scenes tidbits from her seven seasons (and now the Nov. 25 Netflix revival) as beloved, quick-witted Lorelai Gilmore on Gilmore Girls…
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• Review: 'The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History': EW review

  

  Jon Stewart left the Daily Show 15 months ago and the country hasn’t been the same since. Perhaps not since the golden age of Johnny Carson had one man so ruled the nexus of entertainment and current events, and Stewart’s re…
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• Review: 'The Princess Diarist' by Carrie Fisher: EW Review

  

  Star Wars fans are likely to have as curious and strained a relationship with Carrie Fisher’s The Princess Diarist as the actress has with the films: a hope for something deeper, disappointment in its glibness, and ultimately a respect a…
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• Review: 'Pretend I'm Your Friend' by MB Caschetta: EW Review

  

  At first the stories in MB Caschetta’s linked collection (following her first novel, Miracle Girls, which came out in 2014) seem like loosely plotted vignettes, windows peering into characters’ lives for a brief moment befor…
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• Review: 'Moonglow' by Michael Chabon: EW Review

  

  Love and war, sex and madness, long-buried secrets and rockets to the moon: Hardly a shade of human intrigue—or a pivotal moment in 20th-century history—goes unexplored in Chabon’s vibrant, sprawling latest. Ins…
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• Review: 'The Fate of the Tearling' by Erika Johansen: EW Review

  

  In the final book of Erika Johansen’s excellent Tearling trilogy, Queen Kelsea Glynn is struggling to save her besieged kingdom from a physical foe, the Red Queen, as well as from a strange supernatural force that has begun gaining…
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• Review: 'Settle for More' by Megyn Kelly: EW Review

  

  Let’s get it out of the way at the very beginning: The Roger Ailes stories in lawyer–turned–Fox News host Megyn Kelly’s book are every bit as lurid and appalling as you might imagine, with the forme…
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Financial Times: Books

• newIll Winds, by Larry Diamond
  Protecting a world order on the brink of a fall
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• FT readers’ best books of 2019 so far
  We asked you to share and recommend what you’ve been reading
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• Summer books of 2019: Children’s books
  James Lovegrove selects his mid-year reads
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• Summer books of 2019: Young adult
  Suzi Feay selects her mid-year reads
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• Summer books of 2019: Picture books
  James Lovegrove selects his mid-year reads
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• Summer books of 2019: critics’ picks
  FT writers and guests select their must-read titles
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• Summer books of 2019: Science fiction
  James Lovegrove selects his mid-year reads
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• Summer books of 2019: Fiction in translation
  Ángel Gurría-Quintana selects his mid-year reads
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• Summer books of 2019: Travel
  Tom Robbins selects his mid-year reads
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• Summer books of 2019: Poetry
  Maria Crawford selects her mid-year reads
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Huffington Post: US Books Blog

• newBestselling Romance Novelist Judith Krantz Dead At 91
  The author of the steamy romances "Scruples" and "Princess Daisy" sold more than 85 million books worldwide.
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• Comic Publisher Turning Mueller Report Into Graphic Novel
  Editor Justin Eisinger says illustrating the controversial report is "the easiest way to get people to actually read it.”
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• Donald Trump Performs Bonkers Backtrack About Reading A Book In Resurfaced 1987 Video
  The then-businessman changed his mind within seconds in the old interview.
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• Real-Life Truffula Tree Said To Have Inspired 'The Lorax' By Dr. Seuss Falls
  The Monterey Cypress was visible from the author's San Diego home.
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• Charlie Jane Anders Crosses The Divide
  Can humans learn to listen to the outsiders, the marginalized communities, the downtrodden? This sci-fi author thinks it may be our planet’s best hope.
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• 'Fleishman Is In Trouble' Investigates The Gender Sympathy Gap
  Taffy Brodesser-Akner's debut novel is a divorce novel wrapped around a mystery: What are women really up to?
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• Tony Robbins' New Book Dropped Amid Sexual Harassment Accusations
  A Simon & Schuster representative said that plans have changed.
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• Judith Kerr, Author Of 'The Tiger Who Came To Tea,' Dead At 95
  She also wrote the hugely loved Mog books, about a family and their cat.
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• Herman Wouk, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author, Dead At 103
  Wouk authored million-selling books like "The Caine Mutiny" and "The Winds Of War."
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• Ani DiFranco Talks Feminism In The Age Of 'Me Too' And Trump
  The veteran singer-songwriter has a new memoir out this week.
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L.A. Times: Books

• newJury recommends death for man convicted in McStay family murders

  

  A jury Monday recommended death for a man convicted of killing Joseph and Summer McStay and their two children before burying their bodies in the Mojave Desert. Jurors deliberated for several hours over three days before reaching a verdict in the pen…
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• newRams to open training camp for 2019 season on Aug. 27

  

  The Rams, coming off a trip to the Super Bowl in the 2018 season, will open training camp at UC Irvine on Aug. 27, and seven practices will be open to the public, the team announced Monday. Rookies report Aug. 24, veterans Aug. 26. Admission to pract…
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• newAvicii’s memory lives on in ‘Heaven’ video tribute to the late DJ

  

  More than a year after Avicii’s death, a longtime friend and colleague is making sure the superstar DJ and producer’s memory lives on through music. On Monday, director Levan Tsikurishvili posted a tribute video featuring unseen footage of the la…
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• newWarner Bros. is getting its first female CEO, BBC’s Ann Sarnoff

  

  Three months after Warner Bros. was rocked by a sex scandal, the nearly century-old movie and television studio is getting its first female chief executive. BBC executive Ann Sarnoff has been named chairwoman and CEO of Burbank-based Warner Bros., pa…
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• newMayor Eric Garcetti projects $1-billion profit for 2028 L.A. Olympics

  

  The 2028 Olympic Games should turn a record $1-billion profit, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Monday. Garcetti shared his projection in speaking to the L.A. Sports Summit. “I believe it to be very realistic,” he said. “There is no questio…
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• newA Mary J. Blige halftime show? A Cardi B cleanup? Yes, BET got its groove back

  

  The BET Awards and its branded festival, BETX, have often told contrasting stories. Yes, both share BET’s mission to celebrate the present and future of contemporary R&B and hip-hop. However, the network’s weekend of festival offerings connected…
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• newMarvel debuts stage plays with teenage Thor, Squirrel Girl and Ms. Marvel

  

  Thor and Squirrel Girl are going where no Marvel superheroes have gone before: high school theater departments. Marvel Entertainment and theatrical publishing and licensing company Samuel French announced on Monday the launch of Marvel Spotlight, a n…
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• new‘We’re missing one, but we gained one from above.’ Slain sheriff's deputy honored at funeral

  

  Throngs of mourners including law enforcement officers from across the state said their final goodbye to Joseph Gilbert Solano on Monday, two weeks after the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy was shot in a surprise attack that claimed his life. S…
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• newKamala Harris wants to ‘prosecute the case’ against Trump. What does that mean?

  

  During one of his debates with Hillary Clinton in 2016, Donald Trump threatened to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the former secretary of state if he were elected. “Lock her up!” remains a popular cheer at his campaign-style rallies.…
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• newHow will Turkey’s authoritarian president react to opposition’s big win in Istanbul mayoral race?

  

  First, democracy watchers in Turkey cheered. Now, they’re holding their collective breath. In the country’s largest city, Istanbul, there were all-night, car-honking revelry after an opposition candidate won Sunday’s closely watched mayoral ele…
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London Evening Standard: Books

npr: Books

• newJudith Krantz, Queen Of The Sex And Shopping Novel, Dies At 91

  

  Judith Krantz, queen of the 'sex and shopping' novel, has died at 91. Beginning with Scruples in 1978, she sold millions of books with her signature mix of high fashion, hot sex and female ambition.
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• new'I Couldn't Continue On': A Former Jehovah's Witness On Leaving The Faith

  

  "I felt like everything that had mattered to me was gone," Amber Scorah says of her decision to leave the Jehovah's Witness community she grew up in. Her new memoir is Leaving the Witness.
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• Bad Things Happen Out Of The Blue In Sadie Jones' 'The Snakes'

  

  The author says writing this novel was like writing an "anti-murder mystery." Murder mysteries are nice and tidy, she says, but this disturbing morality tale is about unforeseeable tragedy.
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• Simple, Sassy 'Summer Of '69' Is The Perfect Beach Read

  

  Elin Hilderbrand — known as the "Queen of Summer" — is back with another beachy tale of family secrets and intrigue (and tasty period details), set on Nantucket during the turbulent summer of 1969.
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• 'Chasing Cosby' Author Says Covering The Cosby Case Was A Journey Of Disillusionment

  

  Nicole Weisensee Egan has followed the sexual assault accusations against Bill Cosby since 2005. At first a skeptic herself, Egan discusses how "America's Dad" managed to escape justice for decades.
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• Chanelle Benz On 'The Gone Dead'

  

  Chanelle Benz's new novel is a story that swells with Mississippi swelter, blood oaths, old grudges, conspiracy theories and everlasting mysteries. Scott Simon talks with her about the book.
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• 2 Fractured Halves Make A Whole In 'Evvie Drake'

  

  The debut novel from NPR's own Linda Holmes follows a suddenly widowed (and not all that grief-stricken) woman and her new lodger — a former major league ballplayer who's lost his ability to pitch.
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• Why We're Reading Beowulf In The Bathtub

  

  NPR's new kids' fiction column — by Juanita Giles, founder of the Virginia Children's Book Festival — kicks off with an explanation of why the epic poem Beowulf is the perfect bathtime read.
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• 'Damaged' Tales Of Love, In Fiction From 'BoJack' Creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg

  

  The writer, better known for his dark animated comedy about a has-been horse, has written a collection of surreal short stories called Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory.
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• A Noir Stalwart Builds A New Old World In 'The Grand Dark'

  

  Richard Kadrey — known for his Sandman Slim series of supernatural noirs — reinvents himself in grand fashion with The Grand Dark, a diesel-punk fantasy set in a simulacrum of Weimar Germany.
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PopMatters: Read

• newThe Willful Child in HBO's 'My Brilliant Friend'

  

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• newBlack Midi's 'Schlagenheim' Is Technically Proficient But Emotionally Shallow

  

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• newRetro Rock Duo Night Moves Charm with 'Can You Really Find Me'

  

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• newHatchie's 'Keepsake' Is Dream Pop for Our Doom

  

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• newThe Black Watch Make 'Magic Johnson' the King of America

  

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• newJoining ANTI-, Boy Scouts Drop New Music Video for "Get Well Soon" (premiere)

  

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• newRewards of a Lifetime: An Interview with Dionne Warwick

  

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• newAna Galvañ's 'Press Enter to Continue' Gets Weird with the Storyboard Format

  

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• The Eternal Snow of Frozen Tears: Saving Melting Landscapes

  

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• Molly Mikhael Says Goodbye to Her Mom on Margy's 'Where Are You Now' (premiere + interview)

  

  Of course, Rhoda was a music lover, too."Her iconic phrases were 'Lawdy Bee' and 'Holy Moly'. She loved to sing, in her own 'Bob Dylan' kind of way, and dance like a free-spirited gypsy queen," Molly fondly recalled.For anyone who never met her mothe…
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The A.V. Club: AVBooks

• newHBO’s summer of drama bummers continues for Years And Years

  

  The most talked-about HBO series of the season each provide their own unique reasons to feel uneasy about the world beyond our screens, and the premium-cable channel concludes the summer bummer trilogy that started with Chernobyl and Euphoria with a…
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• newGeorge Clooney to finally try making another movie with adaptation of Good Morning, Midnight

  

  Last August, George Clooney was named the highest-paid actor in the world even though he hadn’t made a movie since 2016's Money Monster, prompting us to wonder why he should get paid so much for not doing his job when we don’t get paid at all…
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• newSpotify says it overpaid artists last year and wants its money back and good luck with that

  

  When the U.S. Copyrights Royalty Board voted to increase songwriter payouts by 44% between 2018 and 2022, Spotify was one of four major streaming companies (along with Amazon, Google, and Pandora) to appeal the ruling. Though they continue to oppose…
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• newAnnabelle Comes Home plays the Conjuring franchise’s greatest hits

  

  Eight films in, and the Conjuring franchise is holding up pretty well. By way of comparison, Friday The 13th Part VIII saw Jason taking Manhattan, and the less said about the eighth Halloween movie, the better. Of course, it helps that the films sp…
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• newIconic Disney family The Simpsons heading to the D23 expo this year

  

  The Simpsons has always been a show that loved embracing its corporate masters, from the loving references to Fox boss Rupert Murdoch and the many positive things the show has had to say about the kinds of quality programming that the network has his…
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• newShare a pint with Pennywise in this freaky re-cut of the Cheers opening credits

  

  There’s nothing like an uplifting theme song of a beloved ‘80s sitcom to make your day. Cheers has one, and its accompanying visuals soothe the soul with a slew of old-timey pictures. Oh, you know who also loves worming his way into old-timey pho…
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• newWatch a trailer for Free Meek, JAY-Z and Meek Mill's criminal justice reform docuseries for Amazon

  

  Earlier this year, JAY-Z and Meek Mill launched a criminal justice reform organization, itself an extension of the awareness the rappers have brought to the controversial cases of Kalief Browder and Trayvon Martin. Later this summer, the pair’s eff…
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• newThe 10 Best Deals of June 24, 2019

  

  We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.Read more...
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• newIt’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, American Horror Story get fall premiere dates

  

  September’s a big month for FX, as the acclaimed network will celebrate the season’s crunchy leaves and leaden skies with the return of touchstones It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia and American Horror Story. Joining them will be sophomore seas…
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• newKrysten Ritter doesn't see herself playing Jessica Jones again

  

  [The following contains spoilers for the end of Marvel’s Jessica Jones.]Read more...
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The Guardian: Books + Reviews

• newFabulous by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review – short stories lost in the myths
  Too much whimsy and garbled storytelling mar this collection based on the classicsLucy Hughes-Hallett is the author of three nonfiction books, one of which, The Pike, a biography of the Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, won both the Samuel Johnson…
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• newLast Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich review – a masterpiece of clear-eyed humility
  Soviet survivors of the Nazis share their stories with the Nobel prize-winning oral historian in a collection first published in 1985Nearly 30 years ago, soon after the Berlin Wall came down, I was working as an editor at the literary quarterly Grant…
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• In brief: Furious Hours; When We Were Rich; Heroes – review
  A compelling account of Harper Lee’s lost true-crime book, Tim Lott takes on the Blair boom years, and Stephen Fry’s second volume of Greek mythCasey CepWilliam Heinemann, £20, pp336 Continue reading...
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• The Pandemic Century by Mark Honigsbaum review – riveting study of mass disease
  This fascinating book about recent epidemics shows that the human factor often gets in the way of a solutionAt the beginning of the Peloponnesian war in 430BC, the Athenian general Pericles ordered his fellow citizens to retreat inside their harbour…
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• The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo review – family friction
  A restless mother and meddling sister trigger family reprisals in this nuanced, polished debutIf ever there were to be a literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler, then Claire Lombardo’s outstanding debut, which ranges from ebullience…
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• Refugee tales and migration – four books that help us understand a crisis
  From refugee camps to the ‘hostile environment’, these personal narratives and histories from Dina Nayeri, Jon Bloomfield and others are indispensableThere’s something vertiginous about the speed with which the political climate has soured over…
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• The Impeachers review: Andrew Johnson and the men who nearly trumped him
  Brenda Wineapple has written a book entirely right for its moment, a history of the perils and politics of impeachmentBrenda Wineapple’s new book was surely timed for this moment. Working with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for…
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• The Making of Poetry by Adam Nicholson review – Coleridge and Wordsworth's year
  How a year spent in the Quantocks and a clash of personalities produced some world famous poemsWilliam Hazlitt recorded many peculiarities of his teenage idol Samuel Taylor Coleridge, among which was the habit of walking zig-zag fashion in front of h…
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• Children’s and teens roundup: the best new picture books and novels
  A mysterious suitcase, secret dragons, a breathtaking acrobatic heist and moreThere’s a star-gazing theme to picture books this month. Look Up! (Puffin) by Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola features science-crazed, irrepressible chatterbox Rocket, who i…
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• Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry review – darkly comic voyage into the abyss
  Ageing Irish gangsters trade banter in a Spanish ferry terminal, in this beautifully written two-hander about crime’s toll on the soulCharlie Redmond and Maurice Hearne are Cork drug dealers, former big-time suppliers and users. Now into their 50s,…
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The Independent: Books

USA Today: Books

• new'Lock Every Door': New Riley Sager novel is scary suspense mixed with social disparity

  

  "Lock Every Door," the new novel from author Riley Sager is about a woman apartment-sitting in a creepy, glam NYC building, when a tenant vanishes.       
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• new5 books not to miss: NBA star Andre Iguodala's memoir, Kate Atkinson's 'Big Sky'

  

  This week's hottest releases include a new detective novel from Kate Atkinson and a revealing memoir from NBA superstar Andre Igoudala.       
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• new'The Most Fun We Ever Had' a rich, complex family saga from Claire Lombardo

  

  Claire Lombardo's debut novel follows Chicago's Sorenson family and its four daughters, tenderly cataloging their ups and downs and enduring love.       
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• Steamy romance novelist Judith Krantz, author of 'Scruples,' dies at 91

  

  Judith Krantz, whose million-selling novels such as "Scruples" and "Princess Daisy" engrossed readers worldwide, died Saturday. She was 91.       
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• Randy Ribay's moving 'Patron Saints of Nothing' a YA tale of grief, Philippine drug war

  

  A teenage immigrant returns to the Philippines to investigate the death of his cousin in Randy Ribay's fantastic "Patron Saints of Nothing."       
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• The Try Guys try becoming authors with new 'self-deprecating self-help' book

  

  The Try Guys show that there is power and humor in failing with their debut book, "The Hidden Power of F*cking Up."       
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• United States' first Native American poet laureate is Joy Harjo

  

  Joy Harjo succeeds Tracy K. Smith as the nation's 23rd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. She is the nation's first Native American poet laureate.       
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• 5 books not to miss: The Try Guys, 'The Tenth Muse,' Mark Haddon's 'The Porpoise'

  

  The Try Guys apply their viral charm to a self-help book, Catherine Chung dazzles with "The Tenth Muse" and more new books we can't wait to read.       
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• Reed King's weird, problematic 'FKA USA' imagines a dystopian U.S. ruled by corporations

  

  Reed King's weird and problematic "FKA USA" imagines a futuristic U.S. that has splintered into territories ruled by corporations and bandits.       
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• Gloria Vanderbilt dead at age 95: 'What an extraordinary woman,' son Anderson Cooper says

  

  Famous from birth in 1924, Gloria Vanderbilt became even more so thanks to a custody trial, designer jeans and as mom to CNN's Anderson Cooper.       
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WSJ: Books

• The Power of Positive Parenting
  Parents naturally zoom in on what their children are doing wrong, but shifting to focus on a child’s strengths is more effective.
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• Facebook's Surprising Role in Bereavement
  Research shows that Facebook social networks can play a role in—and possibly enhance—intimacy and grieving after the loss of a close friend.
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• Job Renewal in Appalachia
  Coalfield Development Corp. is training unemployed people in West Virginia to work in industries like agriculture and solar power.
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• Moths Help Scientists Attack Glare
  Inspired by the structure of moths’ eyes, researchers have invented a coating that sharply cuts the sun’s glare on electronic screens.
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• Mike Tyson on 'Love Is the Message'
  Former boxing champion Mike Tyson recalls the first time he heard MFSB’s “Love Is the Message”—and how a cassette consisting of nothing but that song was “the sound of success.”
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• Why Anyone Can Be Chinese
  A Westerner who’s lived in China for more than two decades argues that Chinese identity should be cultural, not racial.
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• Can the Tech Giants Be Stopped?
  Google, Facebook, Amazon and other tech behemoths are transforming the U.S. economy and labor market, with scant public debate or scrutiny. Changing course won’t be easy.
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• Watching Life's Pleasures and Pains Unfold
  Marcel Pagnol’s Marseille Trilogy—‘Marius,’ ‘Fanny‘ and ‘César’—tells a story filled with comedy and emotion, realism and poetry.
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• The Annoying Everyday Drags on the Economy
  Americans collectively waste billions of dollars a year overpaying for parking. Humorist Joe Queenan adds up the costs of other daily annoyances.
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• The Song-Cycle Ancestors of 'Sgt. Pepper'
  Has the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper” lasted because it’s so traditional? Amanda Foreman on the long history of the song cycle.
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