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VANCOUVER — A Vancouver lawyer representing families of the victims of serial killer Robert Pickton says he and his clients want to read a copy of a "tell all book" seized from Pickton's cell after he died following an attack in a Quebec prison.

NEW YORK (AP) — Naomi Shihab Nye is this year's winner of the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 lifetime achievement honor named for the celebrated 20th century poet.

NEW YORK (AP) — This year's National Book Awards 75th anniversary ceremony won't only be a tribute to literature. Expect some laughs and some music, too.

NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's novel “James,” his acclaimed reworking of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” has won a $50,000 prize that continues Everett's recent wave of literary honors.

TORONTO — Lifelong journalist, broadcaster, author and editor Robert Fulford was remembered Wednesday as a prolific writer whose vibrant intellect and insatiable curiosity inspired colleagues and younger writers alike.

NEW YORK (AP) — Barry Diller has a memoir coming out next spring, covering a life that could fill multiple volumes.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. From Here to the Great Unknown: Oprah’s Book Club by Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough (Random House Publishing Group) 2. Identity Unknown by Patricia Cornwell (Grand Central Publishing) 3.

From the very first page of Susan Minot’s latest novel, “Don’t Be a Stranger,” Ivy Cooper, a single mother in her early 50s, has sex on her mind.

It’s early morning in Southern California, and Renee Ballard, director of the LAPD Open-Unsolved Unit, is where she most loves to be. She’s surfing, and she’s darned good at it.

NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Tori Amos is working on a children's book — her first — that she hopes will help young people follow their own paths of inspiration.