Salman Rushdie’s account of a stabbing attack that blinded him in one eye is among contenders announced Thursday for a prestigious nonfiction book prize.

For decades, Vietnamese people often been relegated to the background in popular cinematic depictions of the Vietnam War.

Geraldine Brooks’ “Horse,” a novel about race and forgotten history, and Robert Samuels’ and Toluse Olorunnipa’s “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice” have won awards from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation.

Oprah Winfrey, Rachel Maddow and Arnold Schwarzenegger will be among those appearing this fall at the 92nd Street Y, as the New York City cultural institution marks its 150th anniversary.

NEW YORK – Excerpts from upcoming works by Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen and crime writer Lisa Scottoline are among 46 books previewed in a free e-book collection. “Buzz Books 2021: Spring/Summer” was released Tuesday by the industry newsletter Publishers Lunch. Besides Nguyen's “The Committed” and Scottoline's “Eternal,” books excerpted include Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney's “Good Company" and such nonfiction works as Elon Green's “Last Call” and Daniel James Brown's “Facing the Mountain.”The collection also features debut books by Gregory Brown, Eileen Garvin and Nancy Tucker. ____https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/