Arts Mar 17 Len Deighton, British author of bestselling spy thrillers, dies at 97 By Jill Lawless, Associated Press
Arts Oct 11 Watch 9:14 Author and humanitarian Mitch Albom on love, hope and second chances Mitch Albom is a sports writer turned author turned benefactor who puts love and hope at the center of nearly everything he does. For our Weekend Spotlight series, John Yang meets up with Albom to talk about his latest book,… By John Yang, Lorna Baldwin, Juliet Fuisz
Nation Sep 05 Anthropic to pay authors $1.5B in landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot. By Matt O'Brien, Associated Press
Arts Aug 26 Watch 8:34 Stephen King reflects on his iconic career and latest release 'You Like It Darker' Fifty years ago, a 26-year-old rural Maine school teacher wrote the horror novel “Carrie.” That man, Stephen King, has gone on to write more than 60 books and many have been turned into such films as “The Shining” and “Shawshank… By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport
Arts Jul 28 Edna O'Brien, iconoclastic Irish author who wrote 'The Country Girls,' dies at 93 Edna O'Brien, Ireland's literary pride and outlaw who scandalized her native land with her debut novel “The Country Girls” before gaining international acclaim as a storyteller and iconoclast that found her welcomed everywhere from Dublin to the White House, has… By Hillel Italie, Associated Press
May 16 PEN America, facing criticism over its response to the war in Gaza, gathers for annual gala By Hillel Italie, Associated Press The literary and human rights organization has faced ongoing criticism over its response to the Israel-Hamas War, with hundreds of writers alleging that PEN showed limited concern over the suffering of Gaza residents and the deaths of Palestinian writers. Continue reading
Mar 23 Author and illustrator Laurent de Brunhoff, heir of beloved 'Babar' series, dies at age 98 By Hillel Italie, Associated Press "Babar" author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father's popular picture book series about an elephant-king and presided over its rise to a global, multimedia franchise, has died. Continue reading
Mar 06 Watch 6:55 Author Paul Lynch discusses his Booker Prize-winning dystopian novel By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport, Alexa Gold The novel, “Prophet Song,” is a story mirroring today's headlines, with a country dissolving into political chaos, descending into violence, and one woman watching her family fall apart. Jeffrey Brown talks with Booker Prize-winning author Paul Lynch for our arts… Continue watching
Nov 26 Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize with 'Prophet Song,' novel set in dystopian version of Ireland By Jill Lawless, Associated Press Irish writer Paul Lynch won the Booker Prize for fiction on Sunday with what judges called a “soul-shattering” novel about a woman’s struggle to protect her family as Ireland collapses into totalitarianism and war. Continue reading
Jun 25 Hundreds of authors, including Salman Rushdie, Cheryl Strayed endorse anti-censorship initiative By Associated Press Salman Rushdie, Cheryl Strayed, Carl Hiassen and Ibram X. Kendi are among hundreds of authors who have endorsed the announcement by the American Library Association and the Association of American Publishers. Continue reading