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Shirley Jackson, best known as the author of The Lottery, a short story, and the novel The Haunting of Hill House, was born on this day in 1916. According to an article put together by The New Indian Express, “much like her…
Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s memoir will be published in November according to Markus Dohle, CEO of Penguin Random House, the publisher for the Crown imprint and also tweeted by the former first lady. From Deadline Hollywood: “Writing Becoming has been a…
At best, writing about books is subjective. My favorite book of the year could very well be the one you liked least. And, certainly, vice-versa. So why do we do it? Because people love lists and collections and personal connections. And…
Jim Parsons (Big Bang Theory) has optioned the rights to the Michael Ausiello memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies. In his heartbreaking, tragicomic memoir, Ausiello told the story of the eleven month span between when his partner, photographer Kit Cowan, got a…
When he finally stopped writing he was so severely over-stimulated he was unable to keep his body still. His arms flailed about and he paced so much on de Beauvoir’s carpet that he wore a hole in it. He was a speed…
True-crime aficionados are going to eat up Trials of the Century: A Decade-by-Decade Look at Ten of America’s Most Sensational Crimes by Mark J. Phillips and Aryn Z. Phillips (Prometheus). But they won’t be the only ones. As the introduction tells us:…
Winston Churchill was an iconic leader. But most of us imagine him as he was best known: a seasoned leader deep into his life and at the height of his powers. Here Simon Read (The Case That Foiled Fabian, Dark City, War…
The beaver has an image problem. All bucktooth goofiness, not worthy of noble national animals like America’s soaring eagle or China’s ferocious but cute panda. But, Frances Backhouse contends in Once They Were Hats (ECW) there is much more to the beaver…
A memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John le Carré, will be published in September 2016 simultaneously in Canada, the US and the UK by Penguin Random House. An audiobook version, read by the author, will be released at…
Alice in Chains: The Untold Story (Thomas Dunne Books) is not a book that could have been published a couple of decades ago. Aside from the obvious — events unfolding — the truth was simply too new and raw for anyone to…