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The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, has voted to remove author Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from the award the previously carried it. The award will now be known as the Children’s Literature Legacy Award,…
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Steven Nester, host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio show heard on the Public Radio Exchange [PRX]. Nester is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Rap Sheet, Mystery…
The book is always better than the movie, right? I mean, it seems that way, but can it possibly true? Well, we’ve always thought so, but now, thanks to a platoon of psychologists at University College in London, we know it’s true….
Just can’t get enough crime fiction? The Rap Sheet, January Magazine’s sister publication, offers up a selection of more than 220 works of mystery, crime, and thriller fiction from both sides of the Atlantic scheduled to reach bookstores between now and the…
There have been a lot of vegan and vegan-adjacent cookbooks published over the last decade as many of us move towards a plant-based diet. Obviously some of these books have been better than others. Some are encyclopedic in nature. Others, for better…
Sad that the amazingly successful Game of Thrones is barreling towards its inevitable conclusion? Well, cheer up, final episode or no, the best might be yet to come: a Game of Thrones prequel, to be co-produced by series author George R.R. Martin,…
Chef, author, television presenter and mystery writer Anthony Bourdain was found dead in his hotel room in Paris on Friday morning after taking his own life. He would have been 62 later this month. CNN confirmed the loss this morning: It is…
Catherine Bach is a survivor, something that, after the accident, everyone she meets thinks to make a remark about. How lucky she is. How blessed. She was aboard an Airbus A380-800 that fell from the sky, and she walked away. How can…
Though Jonathan Lethem’s hotly anticipated 11th novel, The Feral Detective, won’t be out until November, film rights have been acquired by Sue Kroll’s Kroll & Co. through her exclusive deal with Warner Bros. Pictures. The Feral Detective is Lethem’s first detective story…
Today marks the official publication date of The President Is Missing, by Bill Clinton and James Patterson (Little, Brown). The first thriller ever penned by a onetime American president, this 528-page novel boasts all the hallmarks of a best-seller. It likely also…