Jason Reynolds
This image released by WGBH-TV shows Katy Kane, left, as she appraises celebrity chef Carla Hall’s vintage purse collection in an episode of "Antiques Roadshow Celebrity Edition," airing May 10 on PBS. (WGBH/PBS via AP)
'Antique Roadshow' flips the script with celebrity editions

By Mark Kennedy May. 03, 2021 11:33 AM EDT

Books by Steinbeck, Alexie among most objected to in 2020

By Hillel Italie Apr. 05, 2021 08:51 AM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — The closing of physical libraries because of the pandemic has slowed but not stopped patrons and others from calling for books to be banned or...

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

FILE - This May 22, 2018 file photo shows Stephen King at the 2018 PEN Literary Gala in New York. With independent bookstores shut down nationwide, a new online seller is offering help. In January, Andy Hunter launched Bookshop.org. Simon & Schuster is adding buy buttons for Bookshop.org to all of its websites and promoting Bookshop through emails and elsewhere online. It also has enlisted numerous authors, among them Stephen King, Susan Orlean and Jason Reynolds, to get the word out about Bookshop on social media and elsewhere. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
New online store offers help to shuttered indie booksellers

By Hillel Italie Apr. 02, 2020 02:25 PM EDT