Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny to Write Political Thriller
In Louise Penny’s upcoming thriller, a novice secretary of state faces the daunting task of rebuilding American leadership after years of diminishing influence abroad. She...
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How Getting Canceled on Social Media Can Derail a Book Deal
Regnery, the conservative publisher that signed Mr. Hawley after Simon & Schuster dropped his book, also has a morals clause — what Thomas Spence, its...
Amanda Gorman Captures the Moment, in Verse
About two weeks ago, the poet Amanda Gorman was struggling to finish a new work titled “The Hill We Climb.” She was feeling exhausted, and...
What Books Should Biden Read? We Asked 22 Writers
George Will is the author of, most recently, “The Conservative Sensibility.” Laila Lalami recommends “Whatever else happens during the Biden presidency, the Supreme Court will...
Presidential Memoirs Don’t Always Take This Long to Write
The wait is over for the first volume of Barack Obama’s presidential memoirs, “A Promised Land,” which came out on Tuesday. But as a slew...
A Trump Memoir Would Sell. Will Publishers Buy It?
When American presidents leave office, regardless of their parties or approval ratings, a common ritual awaits: They write books, capturing the moment for history and...
Who Is Miles Taylor?
WASHINGTON — Miles Taylor, who revealed on Wednesday that he was the anonymous author of a New York Times Op-Ed article in 2018 that was...
How Bob Woodward’s Latest Book ‘Rage’ Became Yet Another Best Seller
When Bob Woodward was writing his latest book, “Rage,” he kept a stash of Olympus digital tape recorders scattered around his Washington, D.C., rowhouse. There...
Self-Publishing Is a Gamble. Why Is Donald Trump Jr. Doing It?
There is a lot about Donald Trump Jr.’s second book that is unusual. One of his father’s most effective surrogates, Donald Trump Jr. plans to...
In Trumpworld, the Grown-Ups in the Room All Left, and Got Book Deals
It was the summer of 2016, and the Republican Party was about to nominate Donald J. Trump for president. Until then, many party members had...