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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jay-Z ’s popular exhibit “The Book of Hov” in New York is about to live up to its name by becoming an actual book.

The building on New York’s East Side that used to house Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital has inspired tales of horror from the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and served as the model for Arkham Asylum in fictional Gotham City.

NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey has a new book club pick and a new platform to talk books and other topics of the day.

CAVENDISH, P.E.I. — The manuscript for the novel “Anne of Green Gables” has been added to a United Nations registry that highlights Canadian heritage, further celebrating the novel’s legacy on an international stage.

TORONTO — Wendy H. Wong has won the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy for her book on how mass data collection affects democratic freedom.

NEW YORK (AP) — As she anticipates her estranged uncle's return to the White House, Mary Trump isn't expecting any future book to catch on like such first-term tell-alls as Michael Wolff's million-selling “Fire and Fury” or her own blockbuster, “Too

Long before Donald Trump used the term “fake news” to complain about coverage he didn't like, Orson Welles mastered the art of actual fake news. Welles' 1938 radio adaptation of H.G.

Naomi Wood, an English author not yet well known in the U.S., has written three historical novels, including the well-regarded “Mrs. Hemingway,” about the four wives of Ernest Hemingway.

NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's “James,” a daring reworking of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” has won the National Book Award for fiction.