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Kirk Douglas rose from poverty to become a king of Hollywood

NEW YORK – He was born Issur Danielovitch, a ragman’s son. He died Kirk Douglas, a Hollywood king. Douglas, the muscular, tempestuous actor with the dimpled chin, lived out an epi...

DATE: Feb 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Kirk Douglas, longtime influential movie star, dies at 103

Kirk Douglas, the intense, muscular actor with the dimpled chin who starred in “Spartacus,” “Lust for Life” and dozens of other films, helped fatally weaken the blacklist against suspected c...

DATE: Feb 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Winfrey picks Ta-Nehisi Coates novel for her book club

NEW YORK – Ta-Nehisi Coates’ first novel, “The Water Dancer,” has been a long and eventful journey. Begun a decade ago, his chronicle of a slave with an extraordinary memory who j...

DATE: Sep 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dead at 88

NEW YORK – Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in “Beloved,” “Song of Solomon” and other works transformed American letter...

DATE: Aug 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

‘The Mueller Report’ is officially a best-seller

NEW YORK – “The Mueller Report” is now officially a best-seller. A published edition of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged ties between Russian officials ...

DATE: May 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Prince memoir ‘The Beautiful Ones’ to come out in the fall

NEW YORK – The memoir Prince was working on at the time of his death will be released Oct. 29. Random House confirmed Monday to The Associated Press that “The Beautiful Ones” will...

DATE: Apr 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Publishers hurry to release book editions of Mueller Report

NEW YORK – With the Mueller Report finally out Thursday, at least in redacted form, publishers are hurrying to release book editions. Two Mueller Report books already are in the top 100 on A...

DATE: Apr 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Sequel to Michael Crichton’s ‘Andromeda Strain’ due in fall

NEW YORK – The late Michael Crichton’s literary archive and production company has authorized a sequel to his breakthrough novel “The Andromeda Strain.” HarperCollins Publishers a...

DATE: Feb 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Marty Balin, founder of Jefferson Airplane, dies at 76

NEW YORK – Marty Balin, a patron of the 1960s “San Francisco Sound” both as founder and lead singer of the Jefferson Airplane and co-owner of the club where the Airplane and other Bay Area b...

DATE: Sep 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

Hemingway story from 1956 published for first time

NEW YORK – The themes and trappings are familiar for an Ernest Hemingway narrative: Paris, wartime, talk of books and wine and the scars of battle. But the story itself has been l...

DATE: Aug 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Books

Philip Roth, fearless and celebrated author, dies at 85

NEW YORK – Philip Roth, the prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, from the comic madness of Portnoy’s Complaint to the elegiac lyricism of Americ...

DATE: May 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Books

Sherman Alexie declines literary award

NEW YORK – Sherman Alexie has declined the Carnegie Medal he received last month, the American Library Association told The Associated Press on Friday. Alexie was given the $5,000...

DATE: Mar 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Books