On the final page of Kaveh Akbar’s 2024 novel “Martyr! ,” the first person he thanks in his Acknowledgements for helping him complete his debut work of fiction is “Tommy Orange: bandmate.” It’s ...

“I DON’T know if I needed to publish it, but I definitely needed to write it,” explains Gary Lightbody of what prompted him to pen his first ever book, published yesterday by Harper Collins.