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You know you’ve got some juice in the publishing world when you get top billing on a book nearly 16 years after your death.

It’s 1970 in Los Angeles, and Easy Rawlins has come a long way since Walter Mosley launched his series about this Black private detective with “Devil in a Blue Dress.” In that first novel, published in 1990, we met Easy as a young World War II vet.

TORONTO — For the first time in more than a decade, "BlackBerry" dominated on Thursday night — at least at a Canadian Screen Awards gala.

NEW YORK (AP) — For his first all-new book of nonfiction in nearly a decade, Ta-Nehisi Coates traveled the world. One World announced Thursday that Coates' “The Message” will be published Oct. 1.

TORONTO — "Little Bird" was the big winner at a pair of industry galas for the Canadian Screen Awards on Wednesday that recognized excellence in TV.

A city councillor for St. John's, N.L., has won the Canadian First Book Prize, administered by the Griffin Poetry Prize. Maggie Burton received the $10,000 award for her poetry collection "Chores.

NEW YORK (AP) — Coming this fall: “The Tipping Point,” the sequel. Little, Brown and Co. announced Wednesday that Malcolm Gladwell's “Revenge Of the Tipping Point" will be published Oct. 1.

Now well into her 80s, prolific American author Joyce Carol Oates keeps cranking out the books, most recently the disturbing novel “Butcher.

“The theater, when it is any good, can change things.

Walt Longmire and his deputy are poking around in his basement when she spots a relic of his youth, a hundred-pound Bob Simmons-model surfboard. “You’re too big to surf,” she says. “I didn’t used to be,” he says.