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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.– “Riverdale”
has a very special visitor this year.
CW’s Archie Comics-inspired series
lost one of its most beloved cast mem-
bers in March when Luke Perry, who
played patriarch Fred Andrews, died af-
ter a stroke at 52.
Last season’s production schedule
meant “Riverdale” was unable to fully
address Perry’s death (and Fred’s de-
parture from the series), until this
week’s fourth-season opener (Wednes-
day, 8 EDT/PDT). But Archie (KJ Apa),
Betty (Lili Reinhart), Veronica (Camila
Mendes) and Jughead (Cole Sprouse)
will have a little help saying goodbye to
both Fred and Luke.
Shannen Doherty, Perry’s friend and
“Beverly Hills, 90210” co-star,joins the
cast in Wednesday’s Fred-centric epi-
sode, “In Memoriam.” At the Television
Critics Association tour in August to
promote Fox’s “90210” meta-revival “BH
90210,” Doherty opened up about the
emotional and “cathartic” experience.
CW wouldn’t reveal what role Doher-
ty plays or how Fred exits the series un-
til after the episode airs, but playing the
mysterious character left the actress
very emotional.
“It was extremely hard in the sense of
the emotions, but I feel really proud and
honored and extremely humbled that
they asked me and I got to be a part of it,”
she said.
Doherty reached out to Perry’s loved
ones to make sure they were comfort-
able with her appearing on “Riverdale.”
“I spoke to certain family members,
and they were behind it,” she said.
“Luke’s manager Steve (Himber) was
very supportive, and I went into it
knowing that I was being supported by
everyone that really mattered to Luke.
And knowing that it was a show that he
had been trying to get me on since Day 1
(laughs), it was like this really beautiful
moment.”
Perry’s final appearance on “River-

dale” aired in April, although an earlier

episode was dedicated to the actor.Cre-

ator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa tweeted

over the summerthat the Season 4 pre-

miere would be a tribute to Perry.

Doherty couldn’t reveal who she was

playing on the twisty series, but she was

moved by the affection for Perry from

the cast and Aguirre-Sacasa.

“That cast loves him,” she said.

“Loves, loves, loves him. (My role) was

cathartic in a lot of ways. Very, very hard

and emotional.”

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Shannen Doherty joins KJ Apa as Archie, Camila Mendes as Veronica, Cole Sprouse as Jughead and Lili Reinhart as Betty on

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Luke Perry played patriarch Fred Andrew to Apa’s Archie in “Riverdale.”

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“I feel really proud and honored and

extremely humbled that ... I got to be

a part of it.”

Shannen Doherty

on ‘Riverdale’ tribute to the late Luke Perry

NEW YORK — Marlon James’ fantasy
novel “Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” Laila
Lalami’s immigrant tale “The Other
Americans” and Jason Reynolds’ neigh-
borhood story “Look Both Ways” are
among this year’s finalists for the 70th
annual National Book Awards.
Nominees announced Tues-
day also include Albert Wood-
fox, the former prison inmate
who spent more than 40 years
in solitary confinement in the
Louisiana State Penitentiary
before his murder conviction
was overturned and he was re-
leased, in 2016. His memoir
“Solitary,” written with Leslie
George, is a finalist for nonfic-
tion.
Five nominees were an-
nounced in each of five catego-
ries, ranging from fiction to
translation to young people’s
literature. None of the finalists
has ever won a competitive Na-
tional Book Award, and only
four have received any kind of
recognition, including poetry
nominee Toi Derricotte, a re-
cipient of an honorary National
Book Award in 2016 for co-
founding the poetry center
Cave Canem.
This year’s winners will be
announced Nov. 20 at a benefit
dinner in New York City, with
LeVar Burton serving as host
and honorary prizes going to author Ed-
mund White and to Oren Teicher, CEO of
the American Booksellers Association.
The awards are presented by the Na-
tional Book Foundation. Winners in the
competitive categories each receive
$10,000.
James and Lalami were chosen for
fiction, along with Susan Choi’s “Trust
Exercise,” Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s “Sabri-
na & Corina” and Julia Phillips’ “Disap-
pearing Earth.”

In nonfiction, nominees besides

Woodfox were Sarah M. Broom’s “The

Yellow House,” Tressie McMillan Cot-

tom’s “Thick: And Other Essays,” Caro-

lyn Forché’s “What You Have Heard is

True: A Memoir of Witness and Resis-

tance” and David Treuer’s “The Heart-

beat of Wounded Knee: Native America

from 1890 to the Present.”

The translation nominees

were Khaled Khalifa’s “Death Is

Hard Work” (translated from

the Arabic by Leri Price), László

Krasznahorkai’s “Baron

Wenckheim’s Homecoming”

(translated from the Hungarian

by Ottilie Mulzet), Scholas-

tique Mukasonga’s “The Bare-

foot Woman” (translated from

the French by Jordan Stump),

Yoko Ogawa’s “The Memory

Police” (translated from the

Japanese by Stephen Snyder)

and Pajtim Statovci’s “Cross-

ing” (translated from the Finn-

ish by David Hackston).

In poetry, finalists besides

Derricotte’s “I: New and Select-

ed Poems” were Jericho

Brown’s “The Tradition,” Ilya

Kaminsky’s “Deaf Republic,”

Carmen Giménez Smith’s “Be

Recorder” and Arthur Sze’s

“Sight Lines.” Nominees be-

sides Reynolds in young peo-

ple’s literature were Akwaeke

Emezi’s “Pet,” Randy Ribay’s

“Patron Saints of Nothing,”

Laura Ruby’s “Thirteen Door-

ways, Wolves Behind Them

All” and Martin W. Sandler’s “1919 The

Year That Changed America.”

Ten of the 25 nominated books, in-

cluding four out of five in fiction, were

released by Penguin Random House,

the country’s largest publisher. Another

10 came from university and indepen-

dent presses. The finalists were voted

on by judging panels of authors, critics

and others in the literary community.

Publishers submitted more than 1,

books for consideration.

BOOKS

And the National Book

Awards finalists are ...

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