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MAD magazine to leave newsstands this fall

BURBANK, Calif. – Long-running satirical publication The humor magazine will still be available in comic shops and through mail to subscribers – but after its fall issue, it will just rep...

DATE: Jul 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Book World: The books to read to get you into the Fourth of July spirit

The beer is bobbing in an ice-filled cooler, the grill has been spit-polished for battle, the kids are equipped with sparklers: It’s the Fourth of July, and all you need before the guests ar...

DATE: Jul 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Review: Local author demystifies end of life

When embarking on the writing of a book, an author must consider how large of an audience the subject matter will draw. In “What does it feel like to die?” (Kensington Publishing...

DATE: Jun 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Native American writer Joy Harjo is named U.S. Poet Laureate

“My role as a poet is as a healer,” said Joy Harjo. “Poetry is a healing force.” The 68-year-old Native American writer first felt that restorative power during a difficult time e...

DATE: Jun 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

‘Moby-Dick’ fan sailed from Italy to Nantucket – ending 1,500 feet short

In April 2018, septuagenarian Vittorio Fabris set out for what he thought would be a solitary 20,000-mile journey around the world. Inspired by “Moby-Dick,” he planned to spend 1½ years circ...

DATE: Jun 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Blake Crouch’s new novel worth the ‘time’

Author will launch ‘Recursion’ next week at El Moro

DATE: Jun 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Tony Horwitz, ‘Confederates in the Attic’ author, dies at 60

BOSTON – Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the best-selling author of “Confederates in the Attic,” has died. He was 60. Sarah Hutson, director of publicity at ...

DATE: May 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Book World: ‘My Favorite Murder’ co-hosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark are expanding their empire

“True crime has always been popular,” Karen Kilgariff says. The fascination may be as old as murder itself, “but now people are acknowledging it instead of hiding in their houses watching fo...

DATE: May 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Book World: John Waters wants to wrap you in his filthy embrace

On a grimy peninsula off the mainland of good taste, in a Baltimore far from the threatening realism of “The Wire,” still reigning over his own personal filthdom, lives the original Pope of ...

DATE: May 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Latest National Park Mystery story a must-read

In his new National Park Mystery series, “Arches Enemy,” local author Scott Graham takes his hero to the area of Moab, Utah. Chuck Bender of Bender Archaeological has arrived in ...

DATE: May 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Durangoan’s book takes readers behind lines of Nazi-occupied France

‘Scholars of Mayhem’ explores Jean Claude Guiet’s clandestine work

DATE: May 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Vonnegut museum raises $1.5 million for new home

INDIANAPOLIS – The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library in Indianapolis has reached its goal of raising $1.5 million to acquire and begin renovations on a building to serve as its permanent home...

DATE: May 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books