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Honoree Salman Rushdie attends the Authors Guild Foundation Dinner at Gotham Hall on Monday, April 7, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Robert Caro, Salman Rushdie and Sandra Cisneros honored by Authors Guild

Robert Caro, Salman Rushdie and Sandra Cisneros were honored Monday night at an Authors Guild dinner gala that celebrated the written word and its vital role in the preservation of democracy.
 
Lin-Manuel Miranda attends the "Suffs" Broadway opening night performance at the Music Box Theatre on Thursday, April 18, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

He’s in the room. Lin-Manuel Miranda voted in to elite American Academy of Arts and Letters

 
This combination of book cover images shows, from left, "Homeland: The War on Terror in America" by Richard Beck, "Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice" by Barbara Bradley Hagerty, "Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance" by Mara Kardas-Nelson, "By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land" by Rebecca Nagle and "The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels" by Pamela Prickett's and Stefan Timmermans. (Crown/Riverhead/Metropolitan Books/HarperCollins Publishers/Crown via AP)

Finalists announced for Lukas book prizes, which champion ‘serious research and social concern.’

 
FILE - Author and biographer Robert Caro appears at the New York Historical Society Museum & Library in New York on Oct. 20, 2021. Caro is still busy working on the presumed last volume of his series on Lyndon Johnson. The book which launched his publishing career, “The Power Broker,” will mark its 50th anniversary in 2024. The New-York Historical Society will host an exhibit in the fall, featuring archival materials it acquired from Caro. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Your autograph, Mr. Caro? Ahead of 50th anniversary, ‘Power Broker’ author feels like a movie star

 
This combination of images shows promotional art for "Reservation Dogs," left, "Mixtape" and "The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart." (Hulu/Paramount+/Prime Video via AP)

What to stream this week: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,’ Quavo, ‘Reservation Dogs’ and ‘Mixtape’

 

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Several top editors at Penguin Random House accept buyout offers, layoffs also underway

 
This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Robert Caro, left, and Robert Gottlieb in a scene from the documentary "Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb." Gottlieb, the celebrated editor of Caro, Toni Morrison and many others, died Wednesday at age 92.(Claudia Raschke/Wild Surmise Productions, LLC/Sony Pictures Classics via AP)

Robert Caro’s last book on LBJ likely won’t be delayed by editor Robert Gottlieb’s death

 
This image released by Knopf shows Robert Gottlieb. Gottlieb, the inspired and eclectic literary editor whose brilliant career was launched with Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison's “Beloved” and Robert Caro's “The Power Broker,” has died at age 92. (Michael Lionstar/Knopf via AP)

Robert Gottlieb, celebrated literary editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, dies at 92