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    Colm Tóibín has won the 2021 David Cohen Prize for Literature.

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    Anne Rice, the Queen of Gothic Literature, has died at the age of 80.

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    A first edition of Harry Potter is now the most expensive modern work of fiction ever sold.

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    FSG will publish Judith Butler’s first non-academic press book.

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    Post-controversy, Chris Cuomo’s book has been scrapped by its publisher.

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    Serena Williams has written a children’s book.

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    Exclusive cover reveal: Sarah Thankam Mathews’ All This Could Be Different.

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    The delightful Marcus Rashford has written a delightful-sounding children’s book.

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    COVER REVEAL: Northwestern University Press’s collection Growing Up Chicago.

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    After 40 years, the man wrongfully convicted of Alice Sebold’s rape has been exonerated.

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    Long live The Believer (which has a new issue coming out!)

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    Exclusive cover reveal: Lidia Yuknavitch’s Thrust.

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    Emma Cline is launching a new imprint of highbrow “Picture Books” for Gagosian.

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    Here are the winners of the 2021 National Book Awards.

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