A stage version of John Grisham’s bestselling 1989 suspense thriller A Time to Kill is on its way to Broadway. A play based on Grisham’s tale about an African-American Southerner on trial for murdering two White men who raped his young daughter will show at Washington’s Arena Stage May 6 through ...
As William K. Black said a year ago, the government's entire strategy now - as in the S&L crisis - is to cover up how bad things are ("the entire strategy is to keep people from getting the facts").Paul Krugman and others pointed out that Geithne...
Move over, Lauren Conrad: Hilary Duff is the newest Young Hollywood dweller putting pen to pad for a new series of young adult novels. The newly-engaged actress/singer, 22, is busily working on a series of young adult novels — the first of which will debut this fall — Simon & Schuster ...
Not only is former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin shopping a new reality series — she’s writing another book! The still-untitled book is described as a “celebration of American virtues and strengths,” publisher HarperCollins announced on Thursday. It will feature selections of readings and portraits of people who have ...
Jennie Garth is writing her first children’s book. The former What I Like About You actress is putting pen to paper for a set of stories aimed at kids ages three-to-eight. “I just signed a two-book deal to start my own children’s books. So I’m really excited about that!” she revealed ...
American Idol Season 6 finalist Melinda Doolittle has penned a new memoir, titled Beyond Me and due for release May 4. The former backup singer shares the secrets to her success and gives tips for overcoming personal obstacles in the book, which features a foreword by Idol 6 winner Jordin ...
Socialite reality star Tori Spelling is penning her first children’s book. Spelling, star of the popular Oxygen docu-series Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, previously topped The New York Times’ coveted Bestsellers List with the debut of her memoirs sTORI Telling and Mommywood. Now the mother-of-two has teamed with publisher Simon ...
Lauren Conrad is a New York Times Bestselling Author a second time over. This week, the second novel from the former reality starlet and fashionista, Sweet Little Lies, hit No. 1 on the publication’s coveted list of the nation’s most sought after reads. Sweet Little Lies — released earlier this month ...
Reality Octomom Kate Gosselin is scheduled to release her third book this Spring. Gosselin has penned a personal memoir, titled I Just Want You to Know: Letters to My Kids on Love, Faith and Family, that will feature excerpts from her journal and letters to her eight children. The ...
Amazon.com and Macmillan Book Group have likely reached an agreement on price control, as the e-retailer relisted the publisher's titles over the weekend. - Online retail giant Amazon.com has evidently settled its dispute with publisher Macmillian over the price of e-books, as Amazon had relisted the titles from the ...
J.D. Salinger, who penned the Great Illustrated Classic The Catcher in the Rye, died at his home in New Hampshire early Thursday, The New York Times has learned. Considered to be one of the most prolific writers of our time, Salinger was also the author of Nine Stories and Franny ...
Linda Bollea, the former wife of wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, is set to pen a tell-all book about her turbulent quarter century-long marriage with The Hulk. Bollea is currently in the process of penning her own “uplifting” tell-all book that details “her life, the traumas and how much better life is ...
Look out, Naomi: Ashley’s telling it all. Ashley Judd, actress/activist/denim designer, has inked a deal to publish a memoir in cooperation with Ballantine Books, the publisher announced in a release on Tuesday. The book, Ashley’s first, will draw from more than 500 pages of journal entries chronicling the star’s childhood ...
On Monday, rock icon Ozzy Osbourne spoke with The TODAY Show’s Meredith Vieira about his new book, I Am Ozzy — which takes readers from the rocker-turned-reality star’s humble beginnings in England through his days as a trailblazer with Black Sabbath. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about ...
Twilight: The Graphic Novel: Volume 1 will be released in hardcover for $19.99 on March 16. On Wednesday, Yen Press, the graphic novel imprint of Hachette Book Group, announced that it will publish the first volume in a graphic novel adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s smash Twilight Saga. The work contains ...
Last year, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah frontman Alec Ounsworth struck out on his own, releasing two solo albums under two different names. Under his own name, he dropped the New Orleans jazz/funk ...
Google apologized to the Chinese Writers Association for failing to communicate properly after the authors complained Google scanned and uploaded books without authors' permission. The writers' association, essentially the Chinese counterpart to the U.S. Author's Guild that along with the Association of American Publishers sued Google in 2005 for scanning ...
E! First Lady of Late Night and New York Times Bestselling author, Chelsea Handler, is readying the release of her third book, Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, which hits booksellers’ shelves on March 9th. This time, Chelsea reflects on the last few years of the star’s life in a collection ...
Tori Spelling will spill the beans on everything from tabloid rumors about her weight and marriage to her rocky relationship with socialite mom Candy in her forthcoming third book, tentatively titled terriTORI. “I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous ...
Spring Design's Alex e-reader will feature Google Books for browsing and download. Although Spring Design will be one of several companies rolling out an e-reader at the Consumer Electronics Show, it may gain extra publicity from its recent lawsuit against Barnes Noble, which it alleges misappropriated the Alex ...