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Riley Keough felt compelled to finish Lisa Marie Presley’s book about Elvis, grief, addiction and love

Riley Keough quickly agreed to help complete her mother’s memoirs. She thought they would write it together, reflecting on their extraordinary upbringing and lives, but after that it became a much bigger responsibility Lisa Marie Presleysudden death in 2023. Her…

2024 National Book Awards Finalists Announced: Complete List

Attention book lovers: It’s almost time for the literary world’s most coveted evening – the 2024 National Book Awards. Twenty-five finalists, announced Tuesday, will compete for the prize in the areas of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young adult…

Book Review: Sally Rooney’s latest novel, Intermezzo, explores unacknowledged grief

Ivan and Peter Koubek’s father just died, but neither of them seems willing to talk about it much, let alone with each other. After all, the two brothers aren’t even friends. Peter, the oldest by a decade, feels sorry for…

According to New York magazine, Olivia Nuzzi is on leave after her relationship became known

New York Magazine reports that its esteemed Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi is on leave after disclosing that she had violated the publication’s standards because she had a personal relationship with a previous reporting subject. The newsletter status, that brought the…