Ringo’s new book: Ringo Starr is the author of Photograph, a collection of images and stories about his early life and years as one-fourth of The Beatles. Being released first as an e-book June 12, Photograph will pair up with the Grammy Museum exhibit “Ringo: Peace & Love.”
Reviewing The Son: USA TODAY’s Bob Minzesheimer says that Philipp Meyer’s multigenerational Texas saga The Son (HHHH out of 4) is “bold, ambitious and brutal.” The novel follows Eli McCullough, a 13-year-old who is kidnapped by Comanches after seeing his mother and sister raped and murdered — and his descendants.
David Sedaris on guests: The best-selling author wrote a piece for The New Yorker called “ Company Man,” in which he waxes eloquent about how he and partner Hugh take care of guests in their Sussex, England, home. The essay is quintessentially Sedaris, spiked here and there with observational humor and a nostalgic tone.
Jungle Book plagiarism: In a one-page, handwritten letter that is up for auction, author Rudyard Kipling admitted to plagiarizing a part of The Jungle Book. The letter was written to an unknown woman, and Kipling writes that he stole from a handful of sources, but “at present cannot remember from whose stories I have stolen.”
Famous authors, classic lit: Flavorwire has compiled a list of classic literature annotated by famous authors. Mark Twain provided some cheeky notes to Plutarch’s Lives of Illustrious Men, David Foster Wallace went slightly overboard on his copy of Don DeLillo’s Players and Sylvia Plath underlined some of Daisy Buchanan’s most memorable lines in The Great Gatsby.
Kindle users still buy print books: In the last three months, one in four adults who have a Kindle have bought at least one print book at an independent, local or used bookstore, according to media forecast and research firm Simba Information. One in five adults uses chain bookstores.
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