BOOK DIGEST || Writers will meet at Canfield Library

Writers will meet at Canfield Library

CANFIELD

The next meeting of Monday Night Writers will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. July 18 in the small meeting room at the Canfield Branch of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County, 43 W. Main St.

Area writers, both published and unpublished, are invited to attend.

Led by professional writer Nancy Christie, author of “Traveling Left Of Center and Other Stories,” the two-hour sessions offer an opportunity for members to get group feedback on works-in-progress.

For information, contact Christie at nancy@nancychristie.com.

Former AG Eric Holder has book coming in ’18

NEW YORK

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has a book deal.

The Random House imprint One World told The Associated Press last week that Holder’s “Pursuing Justice” will be released in 2018.

“Pursuing Justice” will “offer a classic narrative” of an immigrant son who became the country’s first black attorney general.

Holder will work on the book with Douglas Blackmon, an award-winning author and journalist whose “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009.

Holder served as attorney general in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2015. According to One World, he will reflect on his years in Washington and provide “fresh ideas” on reforming the criminal justice system.

Staff/wire reports