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How Harry Potter Fans Are Driving the Romantasy Trend
Romantasy is propping up the fiction market. Thanks to a generation that grew up reading about a boy wizard.
Molly Jong-Fast Offers Unsparing Account of Mother Erica Jong’s Decline in New Memoir
Molly Jong-Fast’s unsparing account of her famous mother’s decline into dementia, and their life together, is just turning the tables.
How ‘McNeal,’ a Play About A.I., Lured Robert Downey Jr. to Broadway
In “McNeal,” the playwright Ayad Akhtar explores the way artificial intelligence is disrupting the literary world and raising questions about creativity.
Evan Gershkovich, U.S. Journalist Imprisoned in Russia, Will Publish a Memoir
The memoir, which will cover his time in prison and Russia’s move toward autocracy, will be published by Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Keanu Reeves Wrote a Book. A Really Weird One.
What if the star of “The Matrix” worked with a sci-fi novelist to tell the story of an 80,000-year-old warrior who can rip people’s arms…
Dhonielle Clayton Is Working to Make the Book World More Diverse
Her solution? A packaging business that sells ideas for commercial genre fiction featuring characters from broadly diverse backgrounds.
Spotify Gave Subscribers Music and Podcasts. Next: Audiobooks.
A year after adding à la carte sales of audiobooks, Spotify is offering paying subscribers 15 hours of books a month.
Pulitzer Prizes Expand Eligibility to Noncitizens
The jury for the memoir category had raised concerns that the citizenship requirement was excluding a large part of American culture.