Drama leaps off the page and into the news
Amazon-Hachette feud dominated book news this year
DATE: Dec 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
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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
Rare Steinbeck story published
Piece disappeared after 1944 radio reading
DATE: Nov 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
New book offers Game of Thrones back story
NEW YORK (AP) – George R.R. Martin knows all the signs of Boba Fett Syndrome.
Named for the minor “Star Wars” character who fans demanded to know more about, Boba Fett Syndrome is...
DATE: Oct 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
40 years later, Power Broker is standard reading
NEW YORK – Carl Weisbrod was two years out of graduate school, planning a career in law, when a new book about municipal builder Robert Moses changed his life: Robert Caro’s The Power Broker...
DATE: Oct 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
Robinson, Chast among book award finalists
NEW YORK – Novelist Marilynne Robinson, cartoonist Roz Chast and former U.S. poet laureate Louise Gluck are among this year’s finalists for the National Book Awards.
Robinson was ...
DATE: Oct 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
Isaacson’s new book tells of digital revolution
NEW YORK – Walter Isaacson has a different way of looking at history.
Mention the second half of 1969 and he won’t talk about Woodstock or the moon landing but the development of ...
DATE: Oct 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
Scorsese’s latest is documentary on New York Review of Books
NEW YORK – As the New York Review of Books approached its 50th anniversary in 2013, editor Robert Silvers and his staff wondered if words were enough to honor one of the world’s signature li...
DATE: Sep 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
William Greaves, TV host and filmmaker, dead at 87
NEW YORK – William Greaves, the Emmy-award winning co-host and executive producer of a groundbreaking television news program and a prolific filmmaker whose subjects ranged from Muhammad Ali...
DATE: Aug 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
So many new celebrity memoirs, so little time
Plethora of fall fiction titles will also keep you busy
DATE: Aug 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
Richard Nixon’s back! (At least on Twitter)
NEW YORK – If you believe the media reports, Richard Nixon suffered a stroke in 1994 and died days later at age 81. He is buried in his native Yorba Linda, California, silent as the country ...
DATE: Aug 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Bacall’s legend more than just acting and Bogart
NEW YORK – Lauren Bacall had one of those incredible lives.
The wife and co-star of Humphrey Bogart. A Tony Award-winning actress. A National Book Award-winning author. A giant of...
DATE: Aug 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
