Michael Schaub

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Edmund White, the author who chronicled the lives of gay men in more than a dozen novels and shared stories from his own life in a series of memoirs, has died at 85, the New York Times reports. White, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, was raised in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois. He studied Chinese at the University of Michigan, and worked as a journalist before making his literary debut in 1973 with the novel Forgetting Elena, followed five years later by Nocturnes for the King of Naples.

4 days ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

Barnes & Noble revealed its lists of the best books of 2025 so far.

4 days ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere is the latest pick for the Good Morning America book club. Reid’s novel, published Tuesday by Ballantine, follows Joan Goodwin, a professor in 1980 Houston who trains with NASA to become one of the country’s first woman astronauts and befriends the other members of her cohort—falling in love with one of them—before something goes terribly wrong.

4 days ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

E.K. Johnston recalls precisely the moment she became a young adult author. Johnston had written a middle-grade novel and had plans to start one for adults when she picked up a copy of Malinda Lo’s Ash, a 2009 fantasy novel that reimagines the Cinderella folktale with a lesbian teenager as the protagonist. “I read it a little bit late,” Johnston recalls. “I read it in 2010, and I remember thinking, Oh, you can do whatever you want to in YA.

5 days ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michael Schaub

Emily Henry would very much like you to enjoy a great big beautiful frozen yogurt. The romance author is partnering with the chain Pinkberry on a sweepstakes tied to the release of her latest novel, Great Big Beautiful Life, the company announced in a news release. The second-place winner will also get Great Big Beautiful Life, swag and a gift card, as well as copies of books including The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava and Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory.