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Edna O'Brien, whose books were initially banned in Ireland but gained international acclaim, died Saturday after a long illness. She was 93 and her death was confirmed by her publisher, Faber, and the literary agency PFD. "A defiant and courageous spirit, Edna constantly strove to break new artistic…

Social media has been condemned by many for its negative effects. But one positive has been its ability to turn readers on to worthy books. The annual TikTok Book Awards were held tonight in London, and the award for international book of the year went to Fourth Wing, a fantasy novel by U.S. author…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television is expanding its relationship with Long Bright River author Liz Moore, acquiring her novels The God of the Woods and The Unseen World for series development. Original Film’s Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty, who are executive producing Peacock’s Long Bright River…

EXCLUSIVE: Stars Collective has optioned the film rights to Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization, the critically acclaimed work of non-fiction from Liel Leibovitz and Matthew Miller. The company plans to develop, fully…

EXCLUSIVE: In the kind of brisk battle over a book we would often see yesteryear but not so often lately, a ferocious auction is underway this week that has names like Anne Hathaway and Elizabeth Banks in the mix. This is for Yesteryear, a novel by Caro Claire Burke, who has had work published in The Atlan…

EXCLUSIVE: The Michael Crichton and James Patterson novel Eruption has been bought at auction by Sony in what we hear is a seven-figure deal after several circled. The feature take of Eruption already has Oscar-winning Free Solo directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi attached to direct…

The Random House Publishing Group, a division of  the world’s largest trade publisher, Penguin Random House, has entered into an agreement to acquire comic book, graphic novel and licensed storytelling publisher and studio, Boom! Studios. The Boom! Studios publishing program will now join the Random…

Romance author Emily Henry now has five of her most recent novels set to be adapted for the big and small screens. Henry went on a rom-com writing spree that began with Beach Read, which came out in the summer of 2020. She has published a book a year since then, with People We Meet on Vacation coming out…

EXCLUSIVE: Carolyn Huynh’s debut novel, The Fortunes of Jaded Women, is being adapted as a TV series. Universal International Studios (UIS)-owned Heyday Television, in partnership with Universal Television, acquired the rights in what’s been called a “highly competitive situation.” Heyday boss…

EXCLUSIVE: Tyler Posey (Teen Wolf) and Mary Mouser (Cobra Kai) are leading the cast of the Simon & Schuster Original Audiobook Know Your Newlywed. The rom-com is written by Heather Taylor (Braaains, Anomaly) and Hillary Nussbaum (Anomaly) with Elena Armas (The Spanish Love Deception, The American Roommate…

Days after Paramount Global purged online content of MTV News, as well as Comedy Central, TVLand and CMT, MTV News has resurfaced on the Internet Archive. There is now a searchable collection of more than 460,000 web pages previously available on MTVNews.com now accessible on the organization's Wayback…

The hit Netflix series My Life with the Walter Boys is coming back for a second season, and now the book the show is based on is getting a sequel too, telling the next chapter of Jackie’s story. The followup book will be out April 15, 2025, author Ali Novak said to Today.com. It will be titled My Retu…