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Publisher pulls Philip Roth biography, cuts ties with author

NEW YORK – The publisher of a highly anticipated biography of Philip Roth is pulling the book and cutting ties with author Blake Bailey, who faces multiple allegations of sexual harassment a...

DATE: Apr 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Books

Beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary dies at 104

NEW YORK – Beverly Cleary, the celebrated children’s author whose memories of her Oregon childhood were shared with millions through the likes of Ramona and Beezus Quimby and Henry Huggins, ...

DATE: Mar 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Books

Stephen King talks about new novel

NEW YORK – Stephen King doesn’t think of himself as a horror writer. “My view has always been you can call me whatever you want as long as the checks don’t bounce,” King told The ...

DATE: Mar 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Books

Paul McCartney memoir due out in November

NEW YORK – Paul McCartney is finally ready to write his memoirs, and will use music – and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet – to help guide him. “The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present” will...

DATE: Feb 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Music

Longtime editor Genevieve Young left legacy in publishing

NEW YORK – Genevieve Young was a publishing editor with a long and diverse legacy. She entered the business in the early 1950s, when there were few female editors and even fewer A...

DATE: Feb 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Books

Michaela Goade becomes first Native American to win Caldecott Medal

American Library Association announces awards

DATE: Jan 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Rarely seen Shirley Jackson story is finally published

NEW YORK – Laurence Hyman, son of the late Shirley Jackson, has been on a quest for more than 20 years. Jackson was just 48 when she died, in 1965, and left behind an extensive ba...

DATE: Dec 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Books

Sinead O’Connor memoir coming out in June

NEW YORK – Sinead O’Connor hasn’t released any albums in the past few years, but she has been getting some writing done. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media announced Monday t...

DATE: Dec 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Books

Tarantino has deal for two books on films, including one of his own

NEW YORK – Quentin Tarantino’s next work of imagination will be in book form. The Oscar-winning director has a two-book deal with Harper, beginning with a novelization of “Once Up...

DATE: Nov 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Books

Bob Gibson, Hall of Fame ace for Cardinals, dies at 84

Hall of Famer Bob Gibson, the dominating St. Louis Cardinals pitcher who won a record seven consecutive World Series starts and set a modern standard for excellence when he finished the 1968...

DATE: Oct 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Toots Hibbert, beloved reggae star, dead at 77

NEW YORK – Toots Hibbert, one of reggae’s founders and most beloved stars who gave the music its name and later helped make it an international movement through such classics as “Pressure Dr...

DATE: Sep 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Music

Floyd’s death hastens shift in police portrayals

NEW YORK – Gary Phillips, a prize-winning crime novelist from Los Angeles, grew up on TV shows that showed a world nothing like the one he lived in. “I watched them all, ‘Dragnet,...

DATE: Jun 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment