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In this respect, the president has something in common with Beethoven, Wagner and Martin Scorsese.

Molly recommends a novel about a scornful teenager and a collection of interviews about a difficult filmmaker.

These novels hinge on split-second decisions that change everything.

An overbearing mother; a vanished sister.

Dwight Garner discusses a new oral history of the venerable alt-weekly, Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write.”

A blues novel; a baseball tell-all.

Garten, the Food Network star and best-selling cookbook author, has moved her highly anticipated fall autobiography from Celadon to Crown.

The awards, which celebrate the best of American literature, are expanding the definition of who qualifies.

Scrappy domestic novellas and a novel about the unhappy rich.

The movie, with its handful of Oscar nominations, has refocused attention on “Erasure,” a satire of the literary world and its racial biases.