Former MSNBC host Joy Reid and authors Percival Everett and John Edgar Wideman are among this year's recipients of the American Book Awards

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The Library of Congress has named Arthur Sze as the new U.S. poet laureate

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Bobby Hart created hits such as Last Train to Clarksville and I’m Not Your Steppin’ Stone

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Bobby Hart, who co-wrote some of the Monkees' biggest hits, has died

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