Arts

Try this short quiz on movies and television specials that are popular viewing during the holiday season — and the variety of books that originally inspired them.

Over the next six months, inmates in prisons around the country will be able to debate and vote on the winner of a new book award — the Inside Literary Prize.

The Mirrorball Trophy will be handed out on the dance competition show, and HBO airs a documentary on a 1989 crime.

Mr. Goodwyn sang and played guitar for April Wine, an arena rock band in the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

He helped define the look as well as the sound of the enduring British post-punk band, which influenced Nirvana, Metallica and others.

“Prophet Song” has earned comparisons to dystopian classics like “1984.” But Lynch downplays the book’s political message. This book, he says, was deeply personal.

“S.N.L.” and Bowen Yang took a parting jab at Santos the day after he was expelled from Congress. Emma Stone was the host.

After decamping from New York to New Mexico, he wrote what was, for a time, among the most widely read novels about Latinos.

Long before Florida Man became a meme, he mined the Sunshine State’s weirdness for enough material to fill 26 darkly funny crime novels.

Molly recommends a 19th-century “Dumb and Dumber” and a collection of essays about the weirder corners of the business world.