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Wayne Johnston is the winner of this year鈥檚 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. The novelist鈥檚 memoir 鈥淛ennie鈥檚 Boy,鈥� published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, took home the $25,000 prize.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Historical novels by Jayne Anne Phillips and Paul Harding and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah鈥檚 dystopian prison novel 鈥淐hain-Gang All-Stars鈥� are among the nominees on the National Book Awards long list for fiction.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Prize-winning fiction writer Deesha Philyaw, who struggled to find a publisher for what became her acclaimed debut 鈥淭he Secret Lives of Church Ladies,鈥� has a 7-figure deal for her next two books.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) 鈥� The Alabama Public Library Service has voted to create a list of books that parents might consider inappropriate for children and teenagers.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� A comprehensive new biography of the Rev.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro's next book will be one for music lovers. Alfred A.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� The National Book Award longlist for young people's literature features a range of grownup topics, from the deadly famine in Ukraine in the 1930s to the 1963 March on Washington to the underpinnings of the Internet.

TORONTO 鈥� A memoir, a play and a short story collection have been nominated for the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize. The $10,000 award goes to an emerging LGBTQ+ writer for their debut book in any genre.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� The California professor who testified that then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had assaulted her while they were in high school has written a memoir.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� The National Book Awards dropped Drew Barrymore as the host for this year's ceremony on Tuesday, a day after her talk show taped its first episode since the Hollywood writers strike began.