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Lawsuits, mergers, and, yes, books, in 2013

NEW YORK – In 2013, everything and nothing happened in the publishing industry. It was a blockbuster year for the legal profession. A federal judge ruled that Apple had conspired ...

DATE: Dec 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Books

Mandela was inspiration for music, movies, poems

NEW YORK – Heroic in his deeds, graceful in his manner, sainted in his image, Nelson Mandela long served as both cause and muse in the entertainment community. From the 1960s, whe...

DATE: Dec 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Authors offer a few tips for holiday gift-giving

NEW YORK – With more than 100,000 books published each year, it’s hard to know what works best for a holiday gift. A few “experts,” from a prize-winning historian to some best-selling childr...

DATE: Nov 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Books

Presidential death puts pressure on next in line

NEW YORK – As President John F. Kennedy lay dying 50 years ago at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Vice President Lyndon Johnson was hurried into a small room in Minor Medicine, where h...

DATE: Nov 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

JFK’s image shines on despite contradictions

BOSTON – Four days a week, David O’Donnell leads a 90-minute “Kennedy Tour” around Boston that features stops at government buildings, museums, hotels and meeting halls. Tour-goe...

DATE: Nov 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Lou Reed, iconic punk poet, dead at 71

NEW YORK - Lou Reed was a pioneer for countless bands who didn’t worry about their next hit single. Reed, who died Sunday at age 71, radically challenged rock’s founding promise o...

DATE: Oct 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

Best-selling author Tom Clancy has died at age 66

NEW YORK – Tom Clancy, whose high-tech, Cold War thrillers such as The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games made him the most widely read and influential military novelist of his time, has...

DATE: Oct 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Graham Nash looks back on a life of ‘Wild Tales’

NEW YORK – Graham Nash is in the recording studio, having a hard time saying the words. “It was such a tumultuous smoke-ridden cocaine-driven moment that it’s hard to remember eve...

DATE: Sep 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Books

J.D. Salinger detective spent decade on trail

Man worked on book, documentary about American author

DATE: Sep 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Renowned writers to release books

Stephen King, Elizabeth Gilbert and Jeff Greenfield among them

DATE: Aug 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Books

Priority for Salinger book, movie is secrecy

NEW YORK – For much of the nine years that Shane Salerno worked on his J.D. Salinger documentary and book, the project was a mystery worthy of the author himself. Code names. Hidd...

DATE: Aug 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Books

Fiction Pulitzer returns for North Korea novel

NEW YORK  Adam Johnsons The Orphan Masters Son, a labyrinthine story of a mans travails in North Korea, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, restoring a high liter...

DATE: Apr 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment