Tambor book of essays set for 2017

Jeffrey Tambor, the award-winning actor whose career has ranged from “The Larry Sanders Show” to “Transparent,” is working on a book of autobiographical essays.

Crown Archetype told The Associated Press on Thursday it would publish Tambor’s “Are You Anybody” in spring 2017.

Tambor, 71, won a Golden Globe and Emmy for his role as Maura Pfefferman on “Transparent.”

In a statement Tambor said his stories would be funny and serious, “awkward” and “inspired.” He said: “All will, I think, be hopeful and instructive.”

Coates wins PEN award for essays

National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates has received another honor, an essay award from PEN.

Coates’ “Between the World and Me” is an open letter to his son about race and police violence. It’s the winner of the $10,000 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. It won the National Book Award last fall.

Mia Alvar has won a PEN prize for best debut fiction.

Alvar received the $20,000 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for “In the Country,” a story collection about Filipinos in their native country and exiled abroad.

Ex-contestants denounce Trump

A handful of former contestants on the reality show “The Apprentice” say Republican Donald Trump should not be president.

Half-a-dozen past hopefuls contestants of the hit show, including Season 4 winner Randal Pinkett and Season 1 runner-up Kwame Jackson, held a press conference Friday in New York to denounce the GOP front-runner’s bid ahead of the state’s Tuesday primary.

Trump has the support of other former contenders, including Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, who has served as a frequent defender on television news shows.