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His culinary empire included several restaurants, an olive oil company, a winery and a retail business with a robust catalog.

“There is the danger of being Dan Browned,” said the comedian and author of “Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult.” Debtors Anonymous, coffee-shop chitchat and a well-timed pool gag help her stay afloat.

Guests at a Manhattan party for the chronicler of Trump and Murdoch included headline writers and headline makers.

His children’s book, “Just Because,” follows a best-selling memoir, “Greenlights,” which also drew from the actor’s musings and life lessons.

His new book, “Day,” is his first in nearly a decade. “How does anybody,” he said, “write a contemporary novel that’s about human beings that’s not about the pandemic?”

He won critical and commercial acclaim, but drew censure for comments on the Holocaust and antisemitic tropes in one of his novels.

He won critical and commercial acclaim, but drew censure for comments on the Holocaust and antisemitic tropes in one of his novels.

He won critical and commercial acclaim, but drew censure for comments on the Holocaust and antisemitic tropes in one of his novels.

Her best-known book, “Het Bittere Kruid” (“Bitter Herbs”), described her experiences as a young woman after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940.

Her collection “Crime Against Nature,” which recounts her losing custody of her children after she came out, made her a literary star — and a target of conservatives.