Literary events

FILE - In this Friday, June 18, 2021, file photo, journalist Katie Couric attends a screening during the 20th Tribeca Festival at The Waterfront Plaza at Brookfield Place, in New York. Little, Brown and Company and Live Nation announced Monday, June 21, 2021, that Couric will embark on an 11-city in-person promotional tour for her book “Going There,” beginning with an appearance at Boston’s Orpheum Theatre on Oct. 28.(Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

Couric book tour this fall will be in-person, in theaters

By Hillel Italie Jun. 21, 2021 05:03 AM EDT

FILE - Playwright Katori Hall poses for a portrait in front of the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in New York on Sept, 21, 2011. Hall won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play "The Hot Wing King." (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)

'The Night Watchman,' Malcolm X biography win arts Pulitzers

By Hillel Italie And Mark Kennedy Jun. 11, 2021 01:32 PM EDT

This undated photo shows the front and back sides of the medal awarded for the Pulitzer Prizes in New York. The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism and the arts will be announced, Friday, June 11, 2021, almost two months later than initially planned due to the pandemic. (The Pulitzer Prizes via AP)

The Latest: 2021 Pulitzer Prizes honor journalism, arts

By The Associated Press Jun. 11, 2021 01:18 PM EDT

This image released by Ecco/HarperCollins shows author Jami Attenberg, founder of the 1,000 word challenge, calling for people to write 1,000 words a day for 14 days. The 2021 challenge began May 31 and ends Sunday. (Jami Attenberg via AP)

Fiction, memoirs, poems spring from 1,000-word challenge

By Hillel Italie Jun. 07, 2021 09:25 AM EDT

Marie Vytopilova, wife of the late Jaromir Vytopil, stands in a bookstore in Pelhrimov, Czech Republic, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. Some 25,000 have been killed by COVID-19 in the hard-hit Czech Republic. Jaromir Vytopil was one of them. His everyday presence in the small Czech town of Pelhrimov was something everybody took for granted for seven decades as he had served the generations of readers. The longest serving Czech bookseller, passed away on Nov 9. 2020, at age of 83. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Longest-serving bookseller among 25,000 Czech virus victims

By Karel Janicek Mar. 28, 2021 03:08 AM EDT

Bryson DeChambeau celebrates after sinking a putt to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational golf tournament Sunday, March 7, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Better than most? One putt on the 17th that actually was

By Doug Ferguson Mar. 09, 2021 06:23 PM EST

FILE - Author Lawrence Ferlinghetti recites a poem after he was awarded the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community at the National Book Awards in New York, on Nov. 16, 2005. Ferlinghetti, a poet, publisher and bookseller has died in San Francisco at age 101. His son says Ferlinghetti died at home on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. Ferlinghetti helped launch and perpetuate the Beat movement. He was known for his City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, an essential meeting place for the Beats and other bohemians in the 1950s and beyond. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, File)

Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101

By Janie Har And Hillel Italie Feb. 23, 2021 02:57 PM EST

This 2018 photo released by the Gordon Parks Foundation shows Genevieve Young, a publishing editor and wife of photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks. Young was 89 when she died at her home in Manhattan on Feb. 18, 2020, after a long battle with cancer. She was a publishing editor with a long and diverse legacy. Beyond publishing a paid notice in The New York Times, the family says it had trouble finding anyone to report on her death because of the quickly spreading coronavirus. Plans for a memorial tribute, originally scheduled for last spring, remain on hold. (Gordon Parks Foundation via AP)

Longtime editor Genevieve Young left legacy in publishing

By Hillel Italie Feb. 18, 2021 09:44 AM EST

This image provided by Penguin Random House shows Colombian author Pilar Quintana, winner of the Alfaguara novel prize for "Los Abismos/The Abysses." (Manuela Uribe/Penguin Random House via AP)

Pilar Quintana reconnects with childhood and wins Alfaguara

By Sigal Ratner-Arias Feb. 08, 2021 11:20 AM EST

Japanese writer Yu Miri speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. Miri's novel "Tokyo Ueno Station" has won the National Book Award 2020 for Translated Literature in the United States. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Novelist Yu Miri: Olympics not helping Fukushima rebuilding

By Mari Yamaguchi Dec. 23, 2020 08:34 AM EST

FILE - In this May 28, 2015 file photo, signs for Hachette Book Group are displayed at BookExpo America in New York. Hachette cancelled a memoir by Woody Allen, whose daughter Dylan Farrow has alleged he sexually abused her, after employees staged a walkout in protest. Skyhorse Publishing later released the book. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Publishing saw upheaval in 2020, but 'books are resilient'

By Hillel Italie Dec. 14, 2020 11:23 AM EST

FILE - In this May 28, 2015 file photo, attendees at BookExpo America visit the HarperCollins Publishers booth in New York. The annual publishing convention and trade show, a decades-old tradition, may be coming to an end. ReedPop, which has managed BookExpo for a quarter century, announced that it was dropping the event, along with the fan-based BookCon. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Publishing saw upheaval in 2020, but 'books are resilient'

By Hillel Italie Dec. 14, 2020 10:35 AM EST

Obama, Patti Smith among PEN America honorees

Dec. 08, 2020 09:00 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) — Artists, activists and a former president gathered online for PEN America's annual gala, held virtually this year because of the pandemic. ...

In this Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, photo provided by Nobel Prize Outreach, Louise Glück stands beside the medal awarded to her for the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature outside her home in Cambridge, Mass. The pomp and ceremony of the Nobel prize ceremonies were altered this year amid measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Instead, the laureates' achievements are being rewarded at low-key ceremonies where they live or work. (Daniel Ebersole/ Nobel Prize Outreach via AP)

Nobel ceremonies go low-key this year because of coronavirus

Dec. 07, 2020 06:29 AM EST

Event organizer drops BookExpo, annual publishing convention

By Hillel Italie Dec. 01, 2020 12:00 PM EST

Americans dominate diverse list of Booker Prize contenders

By Jill Lawless Nov. 19, 2020 05:23 AM EST
LONDON (AP) — Booker Prize judges are meeting Thursday to pick a winner of the prestigious literary award, choosing from a six-book list that's both U.S....

This combination photo shows book cover images for Charles Yu's “Interior Chinatown,” a satirical, cinematic novel written in the form of a screenplay, left, and " “The Dead Are Arising:The Life of Malcolm X," a biography by Tamara Payne and her late father Les Payne. The novel and biography won National Book Awards for fiction and non-fiction respectively. (Pantheon via AP, left, and Liveright via AP)

Charles Yu novel, Malcolm X bio win National Book Awards

By Hillel Italie Nov. 18, 2020 08:44 PM EST

Louisiana award goes to writer of books on pandemic, floods

Oct. 31, 2020 12:50 PM EDT
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana author who has written about the 1918 flu pandemic and the 1927 Mississippi River flood is receiving the state's annual...

Pandemic a whammy for Tucson's normally busy events season

Oct. 24, 2020 11:17 AM EDT

This image shows a party game focused on Latino pop culture. the Tragos Stay Home Pack and includes such activities as showing off your best moves to Bad Bunny’s Yo Perreo Sola dance and taking your best shot at duplicating Cardi B’s coronavirus howl. Half the proceeds of the set go to The Immigrant Worker Safety Net Fund. Available on TragosGame.com. Options in Spanish and English, both digital and in a box, are now widely available.(Tragos Games LLC via AP)

Gifty new and unusual pandemic-proof games for the holidays

By Leanne Italie Oct. 19, 2020 12:53 PM EDT