SAN FRANCISCO — Until recently, when friends came to Chanel Miller’s apartment, she would throw a bag over the Glamour Woman of the Year award that she received in 2016.
Mo Willems is this year’s winner of the Best of Brooklyn award, which is presented annually to a writer who “exemplifies or speaks to the spirit of Brooklyn.” Willems is the first picture-book author to receive the award and joins such previous winners as Jacqueline Woodson, Colson Whitehead and James McBride.
Best-selling author Naomi Wolf said Friday that she was correcting portions of her latest book after an awkward radio interview in which she was alerted to major errors in it.
This fantastical novel by the French-Senegalese NDiaye follows four generations of women, and their relationships with each other, as they work to assimilate into French society. “It’s a wild ghost story,” a New York Times reviewer wrote, “rooted in immigration and exile.”
(Book News): Novelist Salman Rushdie co-founded the PEN World Voices Festival 15 years ago, when he was president of PEN America, but it has roots in a conference that occurred decades earlier. In 1986, more than 600 prominent writers from around the world, including Rushdie, gathered for a PEN Congress in New York City.
Writer Nora Roberts on Wednesday sued a Brazilian romance novelist for copyright infringement, accusing her of copying or paraphrasing material from 10 of Roberts’ books.
(Newsbook): It has been only 10 years since the decadeslong civil war in Sri Lanka ended. Now the island has been hit by violence again, with a series of coordinated suicide bomb attacks that killed nearly 300 people. These books offer context about the country and the toll that the tension between the Buddhist majority and Tamil minority has had on its people.
A black Maryland lawyer who was detained in court earlier this month by a deputy who thought he was a suspect masquerading as a lawyer filed a complaint with the Harford County Sheriff’s Office this week, alleging the action was racially motivated.
“Some people have hives for entertainers. I have hives for food,” Damon Young, editor-in-chief of the pop culture criticism website Very Smart Brothas, said during a recent interview.
A student at a Catholic school in Kentucky has sued the Northern Kentucky Health Department, claiming it violated his First Amendment rights by barring him from playing basketball because he refused to be vaccinated against chickenpox.
When Mitchell learned he was being investigated, he tried to tamper with witnesses and obstruct the investigation, and lied to federal prosecutors about having sex with prostitutes, according to the indictment.
Adam Wilkerson, who was at the zoo with his mother and two sons, said his mother successfully distracted the jaguar by shoving a water bottle into the cage.
In late 2017, during a visit to Rawles’ studio in Los Angeles, Coates saw some of her recent work: photo-like paintings of black women, men and children floating or swimming in a pool.
