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Lena Dunham sticks to candid style with new book

NEW YORK – In the pilot episode of “Girls,” Lena Dunham’s character, Hannah, tells her parents that she believes she’s meant to share her writing talent with others. “I think I ma...

Book offers exhaustive look at local outlaws

“Porter and Ike Stockton: Colorado and New Mexico Border Outlaws,” a nonfiction book by debut author Michael Maddox, displays his meticulous research into the colorful history of two of the ...

Author delivers ‘Star Wars’ tour de force

How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise (Basic Books), by Chris Taylor Chris Taylor, deputy editor of the social med...

Review: Mosley creates Hearst-like case in new book

Rose Gold (Doubleday), by Walter Mosley Walter Mosley evokes the curious turns of the Patty Hearst kidnapping saga and the fractured culture of that era in Rose Gold, his latest E...

Lahr pens brilliant new biography of Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (W.W. Norton & Co.), by John Lahr When “The Glass Menagerie” opened on Broadway in March 1945, the actress cast as Southern matria...

Review: Bezmozgis novel explores loyalty, betrayal

The Betrayers (Little, Brown and Co.), by David Bezmozgis The betrayals come thick and fast in David Bezmozgis’ aptly titled and beautifully written second novel, The Betrayers. T...

Books: New and noteworthy

USA TODAY’s Jocelyn McClurg scopes out the hottest books on sale each week. 1. Killing Patton by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (Henry Holt, non-fiction, on sale Sept. 23) ...

Three Cups of Tea author plans reluctant return

BOZEMAN, Mont. – Greg Mortenson doesn’t want to talk about his best-selling Three Cups of Tea book, but everybody else does – including his own charity. Three years ago, “60 Minut...

Getting animals to dazzle on screen is a wild job

LOS ANGELES – For animal trainers on film sets, the job can be wild. Getting snakes on a plane takes a bit of heat or light, but cajoling a bear to perform for the camera can require buckets...

Women in politics: Gillibrand and Davis memoirs

NEW YORK – “Forgetting to Be Afraid: A Memoir” (Penguin/Blue Rider Press), by Wendy Davis, and “Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World” (Ballantine Books), by Kirsten Gillibra...

Author says Christian novel plagiarized, sex added

SALT LAKE CITY – A Utah author says a schoolteacher plagiarized her Christian romance novel, added graphic sex scenes and passed it off as her own. In a case she says brings to li...

Some inspiration to keep age from getting you down

Local author offers glimpses into lives of older athletes
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