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Latest and Upcoming from Streisand, King, Connelly, Bowen and More

Superstar's Long-Awaited Memoir Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. In My Name Is Barbra, she tells her own story about her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her…

BookTribNovember 9, 2023

Miscellany

More “Best Books,” Books-To-Stage News, Bill Gates’ Choices

Hello, booklovers! It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and we are celebrating it with some excellent book news. All the “best of 2022” book lists are making an appearance, we have some books to look forward to in 2023, and even a bit of gossip. 😊 So, get…

BookTribDecember 3, 2022

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Amazon’s Best Books of 2022, Upcoming Celeb #KidLit, T-Day Cookbook Recs and More!

Hello, booklovers! If you’re looking for the hottest book news, you’ve come to the right place. This week in The Pulse, we have a variety of interesting bookish things to share with readers, from Amazon’s best books of 2022 to celebrities announcing their literary debuts with children’s books. There’s even…

BookTribNovember 19, 2022

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Merry Books for Us All … and to All a Good Night!

THE TOP 100: Leave it to Time Magazine to keep us out of trouble this holiday season – and well, the next few seasons, we would think – by encouraging us to keep our heads in a book with their recently announced 100 Must-Read Books of 2022. What a fun…

BookTribDecember 17, 2022

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High-Profile Book Club Picks and Another Royal Memoir?

TONI MORRISON PAPERS TO BE EXHIBITED: 90 never-before-exhibited objects from Toni Morrison’s manuscript drafts, speeches, correspondence, photographs and other ephemera housed in the Princeton University Library’s department of special collections will go on view in the exhibition “Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory,” which opens Feb. 22 in the Milberg Gallery…

BookTribJanuary 7, 2023

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THE EYES HAVE IT: A Royal Pain and Other Bookish Delights

IT ENDS WITH THIS: Plans for a coloring book adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s popular novel It Ends With Us were dashed a day after criticism as to whether the dramatic novel could survive the adaptation into other mediums — given its themes of domestic abuse and trauma. Atria Books confirmed…

BookTribJanuary 14, 2023

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“Good Hats” and Bad Words — Plus the Newest Heart-Pounding Thrillers

Emma Straub’s Historic F-Bomb: The Houston Chronicle reported that a school district in Texas uninvited novelist Emma Straub (This Time Tomorrow) from a planned visit with elementary school students because the author dropped multiple F-Bombs in a Tweet in 2022. Emma Straub had been invited to read her new children’s…

BookTribJanuary 21, 2023

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Digging Up “American Dirt” and Other Book-Worthy Tidbits

What Have We Learned From American Dirt? Three years after the launch of the controversial book American Dirt, the tale of a Mexican immigrant family, by Jeanine Cummins, a white woman, that created a firestorm over race, identity and Cummins’ right in the first place to write about the plight of…

BookTribJanuary 28, 2023

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Michelle’s New Podcast, Colleen on the Big Screen, Meryl to Narrate Patchett, Facing Our Literacy Issues

MICHELLE OBAMA LAUNCHES PODCAST BASED ON BOOK TOUR: Readers who couldn’t see Michelle Obama on her last book tour will have the chance to experience it via podcast. The former First Lady announced via Instagram that The Light Podcast will launch on March 7. COLLEEN HOOVER BESTSELLER HEADS TO BIG…

BookTribFebruary 4, 2023

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The People Making News in the Book World This Week

BARBRA STREISAND’S MEMOIR GETS PUBLICATION DATE: The legendary singer, actor, and director’s memoir, My Name Is Barbra, a book that’s been in the works for years, is slated for publication on November 7, according to an announcement in a news release. DICAPRIO, ABRAMS TO PRODUCE KING FILM: Stephen King’s 2021…

BookTribFebruary 11, 2023

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The Newest BookTok Sensation, a Missing Author and Oprah’s Book Club Pick

Controversial Romance Novelist Missing: Faleena Hopkins, best known for trying to trademark the word “Cocky” in 2018 and author of Cocky Roomie and Cocky Biker, was arrested after fleeing from officers in Grand Teton National Park. However, the self-published author has been reported missing by friends and family since January…

BookTribFebruary 18, 2023

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Works of Iconic Children’s Author Spark Controversy

Controversy Surrounds Classic Children’s Author: Ever since Puffin Books U.K. and the Roald Dahl Story Company hired the consulting company to change some of the text in Dahl’s classic children’s books, it has dominated space in the industry trades. Certain phrases like “small men” in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory have now been…

BookTribFebruary 25, 2023

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Updates on Ian Fleming, Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro

Bond Novels to Be Edited for Offensive Language: Ian Fleming’s highly popular 007 novels will be republished this spring to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the first Bond book, Casino Royale. The new editions of the books were reviewed by sensitivity readers according to The Guardian, who recommended that the…

BookTribMarch 4, 2023

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Book Bans, New Book Lands and More Books-to-Screen News

That “Old Babe” Margaret Atwood: At 83, Margaret Atwood has seen more than her fair share of good fortune and tragedy to know a thing or two about the subject. In her first collection of short stories since 2014, Old Babes in the Wood fully embraces the complicated discussion of…

BookTribMarch 11, 2023

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The Most Recession-Proof Business; Oprah “Turns 100;” More From “50 Shades” Author; Hooray for Hollywood

Sequel From Our “Shady” Friend: E.L. James, whose Fifty Shades of Grey series put her on the literary map, is releasing through Bloom Books, an imprint of Sourcebooks, a sequel to her book The Mister. No kudos for guessing the new work’s title (The Missus), which is slated for publication…

BookTribMarch 18, 2023

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Books Continue To Be Prime Source for Film Content

“You ought to be in pictures.” That’s our theme for this special edition of The Pulse, featuring books that have gone beyond the pages and turned into TV or Big Screen adaptations. We Cannot Tell a Lie: E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars, a haunting 2014 psychological thriller that’s centered on…

BookTribMarch 25, 2023

Latest and Upcoming from Streisand, King, Connelly, Bowen and More

More “Best Books,” Books-To-Stage News, Bill Gates’ Choices

Amazon’s Best Books of 2022, Upcoming Celeb #KidLit, T-Day Cookbook Recs and More!

Merry Books for Us All … and to All a Good Night!

High-Profile Book Club Picks and Another Royal Memoir?

THE EYES HAVE IT: A Royal Pain and Other Bookish Delights

“Good Hats” and Bad Words — Plus the Newest Heart-Pounding Thrillers

Digging Up “American Dirt” and Other Book-Worthy Tidbits

Michelle’s New Podcast, Colleen on the Big Screen, Meryl to Narrate Patchett, Facing Our Literacy Issues

The People Making News in the Book World This Week

The Newest BookTok Sensation, a Missing Author and Oprah’s Book Club Pick

Works of Iconic Children’s Author Spark Controversy

Updates on Ian Fleming, Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro

Book Bans, New Book Lands and More Books-to-Screen News

The Most Recession-Proof Business; Oprah “Turns 100;” More From “50 Shades” Author; Hooray for Hollywood

Books Continue To Be Prime Source for Film Content

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