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A drink driver who mowed down five pedestrians in Edinburgh’s city centre has been jailed for 20 months.

Ellise Shafer What was former President Barack Obama jamming out to this year? “America Has a Problem” by Beyoncé featuring Kendrick Lamar, Tyla’s “Water” and “My Love Mine All Mine” by Mitski, to name a few. Obama revealed his annual list of favorite songs via social media on Friday, and as per usual, it spans a wide array of genres.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. The time has come for former President Barack Obama to share his end-of-year lists, and for his millions of followers on social media to speculate whether he really watched all those movies, read all those books, listened to all of those songs and binged all those shows.As I usually do during this time of year, I wanted to share my favorite books, movies, and music of 2023.First up, here are the books I've enjoyed reading.

NEW YORK -- Andrea Elliott's “Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City,” an in-depth portrait of New York and the struggles and achievements of a Black girl from Brooklyn, has won the Gotham Book Prize for outstanding works about the city.Elliott, whose book expands upon her investigative series which ran in The New York Times in 2013, will receive $50,000.“I often felt during the years of reporting this book that New York City was a central character in the story" she said during a recent interview. "Any New Yorker knows this is many cities in one city.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TV“The Good Lord Bird” and “Unorthodox” are two of the latest Peabody Award winners, announced Tuesday.This year the 81st annual Peabody Awards are being virtually presented over the course of four days.

EXCLUSIVE: The Good Lord Bird, the Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke in the adaptation of James McBride’s book about enigmatic abolitionist John Brown, will be awarded a Peabody on Tuesday, Deadline has learned.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVFor their first outings as television creators, Ethan Hawke and Little Marvin held nothing back.Hawke acquired the rights to James McBride’s novel “The Good Lord Bird” for the Showtime adaptation. He also wrote scripts, executive produced and starred as abolitionist John Brown, approaching history with a witty bent.

NEW YORK -- James McBride's latest honor for the novel “Deacon King Kong” is a real New York story.McBride's fictional snapshot of a Brooklyn neighborhood in late 1969 has won the inaugural Gotham Book Prize, given for outstanding writing about New York City.

Ethan Hawke has earned Oscar noms for both his acting (Training Day, Boyhood) and writing (Before Sunset, Before Midnight), and as a director has helmed three features and a documentary. Hawke used that experience in front of and behind the camera to take on three roles at once — co-creator, executive producer and series lead — for his latest passion project, Showtime's The Good Lord Bird, an adaptation of James McBride's award-winning novel.

NEW YORK -- Author James McBride and editor Chris Jackson were among those honored Thursday night by the Center for Fiction.McBride and Showtime received an On Screen Award for the acclaimed adaptation of his prize-winning historical novel “The Good Lord Bird,” which starred Ethan Hawke as the radical 19th century abolitionist John Brown. Jackson, whose authors range from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Bryan Stevenson, was given the Medal for Editorial Excellence Award.

NEW YORK -- James McBride's latest novel and nonfiction by poets Claudia Rankine and Natasha Trethewey are among the finalists for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for fiction and nonfiction.The American Library Association announced Tuesday that McBride's “Deacon King Kong" was a fiction nominee, along with Ayad Akhtar's novel “Homeland Elegies” and an acclaimed debut novel, Megha Majumdar's “A Burning.” The nonfiction finalists are Trethewey's “Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir," Rankine's “Just

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the series finale of “The Good Lord Bird” on Showtime.John Brown’s (Ethan Hawke) journey may have come to a violent end, but his mission will live on in the young man he inspired, Henry aka Onion (Joshua Caleb Johnson).The series finale of Showtime’s “The Good Lord Bird,” the seven-part adaptation of James McBride’s 2013 novel of the same name that looked at abolitionist John Brown’s movement

The Good Lord Bird was worth the wait.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorFor Ethan Hawke’s “The Good Lord Bird,” the crew was asked to create a dusty rural environment to simulate the world of 1850s Kansas, in which abolitionist John Brown (Hawke) proposes the armed overthrow of slavery.

The Good Lord Bird — Showtime's adaptation of James McBride's National Book Award-winning historical novel written, produced by, and starring Ethan Hawke as legendary abolitionist John Brown — premieres Oct. 4, and TV Guide has an exclusive look at the new trailer for the highly anticipated limited series. John Brown was a white man who fought against slavery in antebellum America — literally.

NEW YORK -- Elena Ferrante, James McBride and Isabel Wilkerson are among the nominees for the Kirkus Prize, a $50,000 honor for the best fiction, nonfiction and children's books.The nominees, six each in the three categories, were chosen by panels of writers, critics, booksellers and librarians.

HARD COVER FICTION 1. “28 Summers” by Elin Hilderbrand (Little, Brown) 2. “Camino Winds” by John Grisham (Doubleday) 3.

Peter White Television EditorShowtime is moving Ethan Hawke’s The Good Lord Bird later in the year – a shift designed to put more context around the abolitionist miniseries as the focus sharpens on the issue of systemic racism in the U.S.The Hawke drama was originally intended to premiere on August 9 but will now move its launch to October 4 in a slightly earlier slot – 9pm rather than 10pm.The series, which is based on James McBride’s award-winning novel, is told from the point of view of Onion

Dave McNary Film ReporterSister Pictures, the content company headed by Elisabeth Murdoch, Staci Snider and Jane Featherstone, has nabbed the television rights to James McBride’s novel “Deacon King Kong.”The announcement comes one day after “Deacon King Kong” was named as the latest Oprah’s Book Club selection.McBride will pen the TV adaptation of “Deacon King Kong,” set in 1969 when a fumbling, comical old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing

Oprah Winfrey has chosen James McBride’s “Deacon King Kong” for her book club. McBride’s novel is set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969 and centers on the shooting of a drug dealer by an aging and tipsy church deacon. But it also pays tribute to community and to McBride’s own childhood in a Brooklyn project.

NEW YORK -- Oprah Winfrey has chosen James McBride's “Deacon King Kong” for her book club. McBride's novel is set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969 and centers on the shooting of a drug dealer by an aging and tipsy church deacon.

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The cast and producers of The Good Lord Bird, the upcoming Showtime limited series executive-produced by and starring Ethan Hawke as the abolitionist John Brown, appeared at the Television Critics Association winter press tour on Monday to preview the antebellum dramedy. The series was originally scheduled to premiere in February, but has been pushed back to a later date to be determined.