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Exclusive: Letter that inspired Kerouac found

LOS ANGELES – It’s been called the letter that launched a literary genre – 16,000 amphetamine-fueled, stream-of-consciousness words written by Neal Cassady to his friend Jack Kerouac in 1950...

DATE: Nov 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

ID theft and memories of war

Pagosa Springs author ties Colo., Hawaii in new mystery

DATE: Nov 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Review: King returns to true horror in Revival

Revival (Scribner), by Stephen King. Remember when Stephen King announced that he was retiring? That was more than a decade and at least six books ago, and he’s done nothing but c...

DATE: Nov 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

New WWII book details story of ‘First SEALS’

ALBANY, N.Y. – Before there were heavily armed Navy SEALs conducting nighttime helicopter raids, there were guys like Frank Monteleone landing on beaches in the dark on two-man motorized raf...

DATE: Nov 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Two wheels and empowerment

Humanitarian, author on cycling in Afghanistan

DATE: Nov 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Mojave Desert comes alive in eco-thriller

Sojourner’s latest book is vivid journey

DATE: Nov 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Hockney biographer publishes second volume on artist’s remarkable life

David Hockney: The Biography, 1975-2012 (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), by Christopher Simon Sykes More than halfway through the second volume of his vivid, intimate biography of Briti...

DATE: Nov 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Rare Steinbeck story published

Piece disappeared after 1944 radio reading

DATE: Nov 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Connelly has another winner with Burning Room

“The Burning Room” (Little, Brown and Co.), by Michael Connelly Harry Bosch and his rookie partner tackle a cold case with present-day ramifications in Michael Connelly’s latest n...

DATE: Nov 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Springsteen turns song into book with unflinching 'Outlaw Pete'

With the publication of his not-quite-for-children children’s book, “Outlaw Pete,” Bruce Springsteen has surprised even himself. Writing such a book “was the last thing I saw coming,” he say...

DATE: Nov 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books