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Author’s ode to crosswords is right on the mark

“The Crossword Century: 100 Years of Witty Wordplay, Ingenious Puzzles, and Linguistic Mischief” (Gotham Books), by Alan Connor If you love solving crosswords, you know how it fe...

DATE: Aug 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Book Buzz: Lena Dunham talks OCD in new memoir excerpt

It seems that Lena Dunham and her “Girls” alter ego Hannah Horvath have even more in common than we knew. In a new excerpt from Dunham’s forthcoming memoir, Not that Kind of Girl,...

DATE: Aug 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Author’s ode to crosswords is right on the mark

The Crossword Century: 100 Years of Witty Wordplay, Ingenious Puzzles, and Linguistic Mischief (Gotham Books), by Alan Connor If you love solving crosswords, you know how it feel...

DATE: Aug 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

After rejections, a book publishing deal

Mandy Mikulencak’s new novel to be published next fall

DATE: Aug 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

So many new celebrity memoirs, so little time

Plethora of fall fiction titles will also keep you busy

DATE: Aug 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Q&A: Factory Man author talks about one manufacturer who fought back

WASHINGTON – Much of U.S. manufacturing has been decimated in the past decade by less expensive imports from China, but it didn’t necessarily have to be that way, according to a compelling n...

DATE: Aug 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Review: An insightful look at digital-age clutter

The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection (Current), by Michael Harris I fall asleep to the glow of Netflix and, when I awake, begin the dig...

DATE: Aug 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

A rocky journey from Egypt to U.S. academia

Book by former FLC professor mirrors her own life

DATE: Aug 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Hikers rescued amid ‘Into the Wild’ bus pilgrimage

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – Authorities rescued three men making a pilgrimage to an abandoned bus in the Alaska wilderness made famous by the book and film “Into the Wild.” Three hikers,...

DATE: Aug 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Magician’s Land closes a trilogy that matures

“The Magician’s Land” (Viking) by Lev Grossman Quentin Coldwater – a moody, man-child magician – is finally growing up. And just in time to save everything, mostly, that’s ever ma...

DATE: Aug 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Haruki Murakami’s new novel journeys to the past

NEW YORK – Haruki Murakami’s new novel is yet another risky reunion with the past. “The past is my treasure chest, and once I open it, I have so many materials in there,” says the...

DATE: Aug 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books