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Reese Witherspoon is adding novelist to her résumé with “Gone Before Goodbye,” a thriller co-written with bestselling author Harlan Coben that hits shelves Tuesday. The collaboration pairs the Oscar-winning actress and book club founder with one of publishing’s most successful thriller writers. It’s Witherspoon’s first novel and Coben’s first time working with a co-author.  Witherspoon said she contacted Coben, despite …

Prolific author Nicholas Sparks will debut his latest title, “Remain,” on Tuesday. While the story sticks to “The Notebook” and “A Walk to Remember” author’s bread-and-butter of romance, it explores the new-to-him horror genre. That part is thanks to Sparks’ co-author, director M. Night Shyamalan. When the project — which included plans for Sparks and Shyamalan to write the novel …

Former Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner says ex-wife Theresa Nist “should be worried” ahead of his upcoming memoir. The lead of The Golden Bachelor’s first season will reveal new reasons for his divorce from Nist, whom he met on the show in 2023. The couple got engaged in a November season finale and quickly married in a televised wedding two months …

Book Review: ‘Minor Black Figures,’ by Brandon Taylor  The New York Times A Literary Celebrity Points Fingers at the Art World  Bloomberg.com Brandon Taylor on the Quandary of Black Art  The New Yorker Book Marks reviews of Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor  Book Marks Biblioracle: Brandon Taylor finds beauty in the mundane in ‘Minor Black Figures’  Chicago Tribune Source link

Casting Keira Knightly turns Lo into a different sort of character than the novel’s unreliable narrator. Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Netflix Spoilers follow for The Woman in Cabin 10 film adaptation, which premiered October 10 on Netflix, and the Ruth Ware novel on which it’s based. Make some room in the ocean, orcas, because The Woman in Cabin 10 is here to …

Sometimes the most engaging puzzle a thriller has to offer is deducing the calculations that went into creating it—what a colleague of mine used to refer to as the “plot math.” Ruth Ware’s 2016 novel The Woman in Cabin 10—now adapted as a film for Netflix by Simon Stone (The Dig)—became a bestseller by combining a classic Agatha Christie–style manor-house mystery …

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for youngsters and who sought their removal from youth shelves will be paid $700,000 after settling a lawsuit. Terri Lesley was fired as the library system …

The late rocker reacts to Perry’s death from ketamine use in his posthumous book, Last Rites — before reflecting on his personal experience with ketamine treatment amid his own sobriety journey. Before both of their deaths, Ozzy Osbourne and Mathew Perry allegedly crossed paths at AA. At least that’s what Ozzy reveals in his new, posthumous memoir, Last Rites — …

The finalists for this year’s National Book Awards have been announced. Among the 25 nominees are novelists Rabih Alameddine and Megha Majumdar as well as journalists Julia Ioffe and Omar El Akkad, who also writes fiction. The winners of each category will be announced on Nov. 19 at an event in New York City. Also being honored are two lifetime …

2025 National Book Awards Finalists Announced  nationalbook.org 2025 National Book Award Finalists Are Announced  The New York Times National Book Award finalists announced: Alameddine, Majumdar, Li and Russell are among the nominees  Newsday National Book Award finalists announced for 2025  The Washington Post National Book Awards finalists announced – See which authors made the list  USA Today Source link