Rapper Fetty Wap arrested on federal drug charges in NYC

NEW YORK » The rapper Fetty Wap has been arrested in New York City on federal drug charges, an FBI spokesperson said Friday.

The rapper, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, was arrested Thursday at Citi Field, where the three-day Rolling Loud hip-hop music festival is taking place, FBI spokesperson Amy Thoreson said.

Details of the charges against Maxwell were not immediately released. He was expected to be arraigned on the charges later Friday.

A phone message seeking comment was left with an attorney who has represented Maxwell.

Maxwell, 30, rose to prominence after his debut single “Trap Queen” reached No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in May 2015.

Joy Williams’ novel ‘Harrow’ wins Kirkus Prize for fiction

NEW YORK » Joy Williams’ “Harrow,” a dystopian novel set after an environmental apocalypse, has won the Kirkus Prize for fiction.

Williams, who has received numerous honors over the years for her novels and short stories, will receive $50,000. She was praised Thursday by judges for her “unapologetic rebuke to the aspirations of the boomer generation, all the more lacerating for its mordant wit and avoidance of dewy-eyed uplift.”

Kirkus, the trade publication, also announced $50,000 prizes for nonfiction, Brian Broome’s memoir “Punch Me Up to the Gods,” and for young reader’s literature, Christina Soontornvat’s “All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team.”

The Kirkus prizes were established in 2014, with previous winners including Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys” and Susan Faludi’s “In the Darkroom.”