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Bill O'Reilly's 'Killing Patton' claims that the general was killed on Stalin's ordersO'Reilly's book 'Killing Patton' hits bookstores today.
Stephen King's '11/22/63' will be adapted as a Hulu miniseriesKing's novel centers on a man who goes back in time to try to stop the Kennedy assassination.
'A Deadly Wandering' takes a sharp look at the fatal consequences of texting and drivingMatt Richtel鈥檚 tragic probe of a texting-and-driving case is also an examination of the role technology plays in our lives.
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'The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher': Hilary Mantel draws controversy for new short storyCritics of the story are saying it's 'in unquestionably bad taste' and 'dangerous.' In the piece, Mantel imagines the assassination of the former prime minister. 'I am concerned with respect. I'm not concerned with taste,' she says..
Isis Books and Gifts objects to sharing a name with terrorist groupIsis Books and Gifts owner Karen Harrison says some social media commentators have urged the store to change its name, while others would rather see them stand firm.聽
Banned Books Week: How is the event being celebrated?Banned Books Week is being held this year from Sept. 21 to Sept. 27.
'Tennessee Willams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh' paints a troubling yet compassionate portraitNew Yorker critic John Lahr examines the damaged, tormented life that inspired the work of Tennessee Williams.
'Grand Opera: The Story of the Met,' a biography of America's flagship opera company, informs and amusesCharles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron carefully and engagingly trace the history of the Metropolitan Opera from its birth in 1883 to the present day.
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17 highest-earning authors of 2014 Which authors earned the most in the past year? Check out the full list.
UK author James Dawson chimes in on debate over 'white faces' in children's booksUK children鈥檚 laureate Malorie Blackman faced racist comments after Sky News misquoted her as saying there were 'too many white faces' in children's literature.聽 Now young adult author James Dawson has stepped into the fray, saying, "Malorie did not say there are too many white faces in children鈥檚 books, but I will.... Put that on Sky News.鈥�
Ang Lee will reportedly direct a movie adaptation of 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk'Ben Fountain's novel about soldiers who served in Iraq has been both a critical and popular success.
'Factory Man' is being developed as an HBO miniseries'Factory Man,' a nonfiction work by Beth Macy, is the story of a Virginia businessman who fought against outsourcing.
'Brown Girl Dreaming' blends history and personal memories into lovely verseJacqueline Woodson's memoir-in-verse is filled with perfect tiny moments about family, about friends, and about writing and reading, and about following your dreams.
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Martin Amis's novel 'A Zone of Interest' gets rave reviews, but is dropped by French and German publishersAmis's French and German publishers passed on his novel about the Holocaust, but another French company will be releasing the book and Amis's agent said there will most likely be a new German publisher that is willing to publish it.聽
Liberals and conservatives both object to new Texas textbooksA panel of experts commissioned by a liberal advocacy group found passages that claimed segregated schools weren't all that terrible, while conservatives object to content in the textbooks that they say is anti-American and pro-Muslim.
National Book Award 2014 nominees for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature are announcedWorks that were nominated include 'The Innovators,' by Walter Isaacson and 'Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?' by Roz Chast for the nonfiction prize as well as 'All the Light We Cannot See,' by Anthony Doerr and 'Station Eleven,' by Emily St. John Mandel for the fiction award.
