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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...

Rare Steinbeck story published

Piece disappeared after 1944 radio reading

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...

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...

Urban plagues and Civil War topics of this southern author

‘Something Rich and Strange’ offers beautiful and searing stories

Fighting for our wild places

Naturalist, author invited as part of wilderness celebration

Read & watch: A guide to unconventional chills for Halloween

I have been thinking a lot about Halloween this week, since I am of an age where the holiday both means friends are dressing up their infant children for the first time, while other friends ...

Book digs into living, aging artfully

Author gives advice for long, healthy life

New book offers Game of Thrones back story

NEW YORK (AP) – George R.R. Martin knows all the signs of Boba Fett Syndrome. Named for the minor “Star Wars” character who fans demanded to know more about, Boba Fett Syndrome is...

40 years later, Power Broker is standard reading

NEW YORK – Carl Weisbrod was two years out of graduate school, planning a career in law, when a new book about municipal builder Robert Moses changed his life: Robert Caro’s The Power Broker...

Fighting for a more compassionate society

Sister Helen Prejean to speak at event today

TV pioneer and sitcom king Norman Lear pens a book

NEW YORK – From the moment Norman Lear began writing his memoir, he knew what the first line would be: “When I was a boy I thought that if I could turn a screw in my father’s head just a six...
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