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The website Goodreads has become an essential avenue for building readership, but the same features that help generate excitement can also backfire. Cecilia Rabess figured her debut novel, ''Everything's Fine,'' [...]

Elizabeth Gilbert delayed her new novel indefinitely after an online backlash condemned the book's publication while Russia is at war with Ukraine. The best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert said Monday that [...]

Alexandra Alter writes about publishing and the literary world for The Times. She is usually juggling several books at once, reading what's coming out in the next few months and [...]

This fall, Knopf will publish two interlinked books that are a thematic and stylistic departure for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. During a rare appearance in Santa Fe, N.M., in 2015, [...]

The independent press Skyhorse acquired a new book by the late writer after Random House, his longtime publisher, declined to make an offer. Last year, in the wake of growing [...]

''Run, Rose, Run'' is set for publication in 2022, along with a Parton album whose 12 new songs were inspired by the book. In February 2020, James Patterson flew to [...]

The novel, which follows four young people in Ireland, is part of a two-book deal for the best-selling author of ''Normal People'' and ''Conversations With Friends.'' A little over two [...]

The author of ''The Da Vinci Code'' just released a classical music album for children. It happens to be one of the assets he and his wife are disputing in [...]

A few years ago, the novelist Helen Phillips woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of her young daughter's screams. She rushed to her bedside but [...]

Late last month, Penguin Classics released a new edition of John Okada's ''No-No Boy,'' a once-overlooked 1957 novel about a Japanese-American draft resister in World War II. It hailed the [...]

One morning this January, the artist Sabra Embury got an alarming private message from a stranger on social media. The young man told her that he was struggling with mental [...]

Last January, Amélie Wen Zhao posted an ecstatic message on her website: Her debut young adult fantasy novel, ''Blood Heir,'' had sold to a major children's publishing house in a [...]

For decades, ardent fans of Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic, ''The Handmaid's Tale,'' have been demanding a sequel. And for years, Atwood has demurred.But now Atwood has decided to continue the [...]

After he published his surreal epic, ''The Underground Railroad,'' in the summer of 2016, Colson Whitehead was set to write a crime novel set in Harlem. But he couldn't stop [...]

Atticus Finch is coming to Broadway. But how closely he will resemble the iconic figure from Harper Lee's novel ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' remains a mystery. The highly anticipated stage [...]

On a cold, sunny afternoon in March, the novelist Madeline Miller wandered through the Greek and Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, swooning over ancient amphoras and ethereal [...]

Harper Lee was a literary celebrity. Aaron Sorkin is a screenwriting superstar. And now the two -- by proxy -- are locked in a battle over who should shape the [...]

Fiction hasn't always been kind to Neanderthals. ''Hairy or grisly, with a big face like a mask, great brow ridges and no forehead, clutching an enormous flint, and running like [...]

As one of the country's most prolific authors, James Patterson has maintained a constant presence on the best-seller list in part by relying on a stable of lesser known co-authors. [...]

There are more than 160 swear words in Andy Weir's sci-fi thriller, ''The Martian,'' including two memorably deployed F-words in the novel's first three sentences. The profanity did not strike [...]

One night nearly 140 years ago, Samuel Clemens told his young daughters Clara and Susie a bedtime story about a poor boy who eats a magic flower that gives him [...]

Actors often go through a mourning period when a play ends and they have to say goodbye to the character they have embodied for months or years onstage. But Alexandra [...]

After Diana Colbert died of leukemia in 2011, her husband, the novelist Charles Bock, began reading through the journals she kept when she was sick. Ms. Colbert had hoped to [...]

When Karen Hall published her debut novel, ''Dark Debts,'' 20 years ago, it seemed like the start of a blockbuster literary career. Ms. Hall, a veteran TV writer who had [...]

When Han Kang's surreal, violent novel ''The Vegetarian'' was published in South Korea nearly a decade ago, literary critics found it baffling. The story stars an unhinged heroine who believes [...]

Audiobook sales soared, while e-book sales tapered off. Harper Lee came out with a second novel, 55 years after ''To Kill a Mockingbird,'' and a long-lost Dr. Seuss book was [...]

In 1992, two debut novelists gave a joint reading at a Manhattan bookstore. One of them was Ken Siman, whose novel, ''Pizza Face,'' sold decently, but was hardly a blockbuster. [...]

When Riverhead Books acquired a thriller from an unknown British novelist last year, it seemed like a bit of a gamble. Foreign suspense novels don't always resonate with American readers, [...]

Harper Lee's ''Go Set a Watchman'' sold more than 1.1 million copies in North America in its first week on sale, and now has more than 3.3 million copies in [...]

When HarperCollins delivered the stunning news in February that another novel by Harper Lee had surfaced, questions quickly arose about how and where the discovery was made, and why Ms. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWith all the debate brewing over the origins of Harper Lee's novel ''Go Set a Watchman,'' the biggest bombshell turned out to be an explosive plot twist that no [...]

Nearly 60 years after Harper Lee wrote ''Go Set a Watchman,'' the novel she hoped would be her literary debut, the 89-year-old author was handed a finished copy of the [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDSeveral years ago, the writer Katherine Russell Rich made an alarming discovery about a man she had fallen in love with. She grew suspicious when, after they had been [...]

On the eve of the most anticipated publishing event in years -- the release of Harper Lee's novel ''Go Set a Watchman'' -- there is yet another strange twist to [...]

In Stephen King's memoir, ''On Writing,'' he gives aspiring authors this advice: ''If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot [...]

Mary Badham, the actress who played the young Scout in the 1962 movie adaptation of Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird,'' will give voice to that character again to celebrate [...]

The novelist James Patterson is so prolific that his annual output rivals that of many small publishing houses. Last year, with help from his stable of co-authors, he published 16 [...]

Sabaa Tahir's debut novel, ''An Ember in the Ashes,'' was greeted with such breathless accolades before its April release that it seemed unlikely it could live up to the hype. [...]

Winter is coming, slowly. The best-selling author George R.R. Martin just released an excerpt from his novel in progress, ''The Winds of Winter,'' the latest book in his epic fantasy [...]

MONROEVILLE, Ala. -- The doubts arose almost immediately when HarperCollins announced last month that it would release a rediscovered book by Harper Lee: Did Ms. Lee -- 88, publicity-shy and [...]

MONROEVILLE, Ala. -- One morning late last summer, Tonja B. Carter was doing some legal work for her prized client, Harper Lee, when she found herself thumbing through an old [...]

Anthony Doerr can come up with plenty of reasons his novel ''All the Light We Cannot See'' might have failed to reach a broad audience. It's set in Europe during [...]

Jonathan Franzen's fans will have plenty to read next year. There's a forthcoming biography of the author by Philip Weinstein, an English professor at Swarthmore College. And in September, Farrar, [...]

Six months after his death at 87, Gabriel Garca Mßrquez is getting a digital makeover. Vintage Books will release nine of his works as e-books on Oct. 15, marking the [...]