Who’s John Jay? Forgotten founder may surprise you
Overshadowed by Hamilton, Jefferson, but no less important
DATE: Jul 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
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Franzen talks around his new novel, Purity
Book will be released this fall
DATE: May 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Books
New McCullough book celebrates the Wright Brothers
NEW YORK – David McCullough’s latest work of history followed a spontaneous path, from a book about many Americans in Paris in the 20th century to the biography of just two.
“Amon...
DATE: May 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment
Bearded Colbert reads O’Connor story
NEW YORK – Stephen Colbert looked out upon a sold out house, flashed his familiar comic grin, and then began the serious (and funny) business he was there for.
Reading a story by ...
DATE: Apr 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment
Ellen Conford, popular children’s author, dead at 73
NEW YORK – Ellen Conford, an award-winning children’s writer whose comic tales about everything from the travails of high school to a girl’s summer camp crush made her a favorite for at leas...
DATE: Mar 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Books
Rare Tennessee Williams story published for first time
NEW YORK – As she takes in the despair of her in-laws’ one-room apartment in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Blanche Dubois exclaims: “Only Poe! Only Mr. Edgar Allan Poe could do it justice!” ...
DATE: Mar 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Books
Second Harper Lee novel to be published in July
NEW YORK – “To Kill a Mockingbird” will not be Harper Lee’s only published book after all.
Publisher Harper announced Tuesday that “Go Set a Watchman,” a novel the Pulitzer Prize-...
DATE: Feb 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment
Alec Baldwin memoir to be published in fall 2016
NEW YORK – Alec Baldwin is writing a memoir, and, yes, it will be candid.
The award-winning actor has a deal with Harper for Nevertheless, scheduled for the fall of 2016. Harper, ...
DATE: Jan 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Books
Novelist Robert Stone, known for Dog Soldiers dies at 77
NEW YORK – Robert Stone, the award-winning novelist who spun out tales worldwide of seekers, frauds and other misbegotten American dreamers in such works as A Flag for Sunrise and Dog Soldie...
DATE: Jan 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Books
‘The Interview’ everybody wants to see
Hundreds of theaters open up their doors to the much-maligned satire
DATE: Dec 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Drama leaps off the page and into the news
Amazon-Hachette feud dominated book news this year
DATE: Dec 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
Mark Strand, prize-winning poet, dies in NYC at 80
NEW YORK – Mark Strand, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate widely praised for his concentrated, elegiac verse and graceful command of both humor and despair, has died. He ...
DATE: Nov 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment
