William Shatner adds another chapter to the captain’s log. The Star Trek actor will publish go bolda collection of essays, next autumn with Simon and Schuster imprint Atria, Publishers Weekly reports† The book, Atria says, will “examine key events from…
Colson Whitehead isn’t done with Ray Carney yet. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author plans to bring back the conflicting protagonist of his latest novel, Harlem Shufflehe confirmed on Twitter. Responding to a reader who tweeted his praise for the novel, Whitehead…
Barnes and Noble has selected Noah Hawley’s Hymn as the newest choice for his book clubreports the bookseller in a press release. Hawley’s novel, published Tuesday by Grand Central, is a thriller set in post-Covid-19 America. It tells the story…
Journalist Michael Wolff alleges Random House canceled the publication of a planned collection of essays by Norman Mailer after an objection from a “junior staffer” at the publishing house. Wolff, citing the author’s eldest son, Michael Mailer, made the claim…
Admirers of the Notorious RBG will soon have the chance to place an offer on the late Supreme Court’s personal book collection. Several hundred volumes from Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s private library will be up for auction later this month. Bloomberg…
Thrity Umrigar’s Honor is the latest pick for Reese Witherspoon’s book club. Umrigar’s novel, her ninth, follows an American journalist who travels to India, where she was born, to tell the story of a Hindu woman who is brutally attacked…
A collection of Norman Mailer’s political essays, reportedly canceled by Random House, will be published by independent press Skyhorse, the Associated Press reports† A controversy surrounding the late author and planned book erupted earlier this week after journalist Michael Wolff…
In December 2020, the book world couldn’t stop talking about a seriously weird publishing story: A scammer lured authors to send copies of their unpublished manuscripts. Now, just over a year later, the story has taken another unexpected turn. The…
Jon Stewart said he was only joking when he pointed out that the goblin bankers in the Harry Potter movies had similarities with anti-Semitic caricatures of Jewish people, the Guardian reports† Comedian Stewart responded to a clamp his The problem…
Roxane Gay returns to the world of podcasts. the author of bad feminist and hunger Starts The Roxane Gay Agenda later this month with podcast network Luminary, Deadline reports† The series is the new iteration of Hear to killthe podcast…
Joyce Carol Oates has once again set social media on fire, this time with a tweet pressing Norman Mailer. Oates, the prolific novelist with a penchant for rocking Twitter with bizarre and often incendiary posts, tweeted her take on the…
A memoir of U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego will be corrected to clarify that a journalist did not falsely claim that the congressman’s entire platoon had been killed during a war in Iraq, the Associated Press reports† Gallego’s book, They Called…