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- Steve Martin will reportedly star in 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk'The movie is being directed by 'Life of Pi' helmer Ang Lee.
- World Book Day: British and Irish children head to school dressed as book-based charactersWorld Book Day is celebrated on March 5 in Britain and Ireland and an important part of the day is children dressing up as a literary character for school.
- 'Roosevelt and Stalin' details the surprisingly warm relationship of an unlikely duoHow FDR and Stalin forged a bond that helped to shape history.
- The Maya Angelou stamp: Did Postal Service pick the right quote?The United States Postal Service honors author Maya Angelou with a forever stamp that includes a quote from her most famous novel "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings."Â
- Stephen King publishes a new story in The New YorkerThe story, 'A Death,' appears in the publication's March 9 issue.
- North Korea: Books on the 'Hermit Kingdom' are positioned as page-turnersBoth the Monitor and Amazon selected Blaine Harden's forthcoming title on North Korea, 'The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot,' as one of the best books to be released this month, while Amazon chose Paul Fischer's 'A Kim Jong-il Production' as one of the best books of February 2015.
- 8 new baseball books to carry you through spring training Check out these recent books about America's pastime.
- 'H Is for Hawk': How a fierce bird helped a writer tame her grief'H Is for Hawk' author Helen Macdonald talks about the predator who helped bring her back from the wild.
- Ayatollah Khamenei – #AvidReader of novels and poetry?The Supreme Leader of Iran shares his literary passions on Twitter. His favorite authors include Soviet writers Mikhail Sholokhov and Alexei Tolstoy.
- 'A Spool of Blue Thread' gives fans one more reason to love Anne TylerThree generations of an ordinary yet idiosyncratic family, an old house in Baltimore – Tyler's latest novel is more of the same, in the best possible way.
- 10 best books of March: the Monitor's picks Here are the 10 new March releases Monitor book critics liked best.
- Bestselling books the week of 3/5/15, according to IndieBound* What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
- Bestselling author Erik Larson garners rave reviews for his upcoming book 'Dead Wake''Wake' centers on the sinking of the British ship the Lusitania in 1915. The book will be released on March 10.
- 'It's What I Do' memoir will reportedly star Jennifer LawrencePhotographer Lynsey Addario's memoir will reportedly be adapted as a film that will be directed by Steven Spielberg.
- 'The Buried Giant' – the much anticipated seventh novel of Kazuo Ishiguro – does not disappointIshiguro turns to 11th-century England for his latest exploration of love, desire, and memory.
- 10 best books of March 2015, according to Amazon's editors These are the titles that are the best of the new books released in March, 2015, according to the editors at Amazon.
- Nick Offerman will star in a stage version of 'A Confederacy of Dunces'Offerman recently concluded his work on the NBC sitcom 'Parks and Recreation,' which aired its series finale last month.
- Veronica Roth says she's 'in love' with her new two-book projectVeronica Roth, author of the 'Divergent' series, will release a two-book series in 2017 and 2018.
- 'J.K. Rowling Bibliography' reveals behind-the-scenes 'Harry Potter' stories'Bibliography,' which will be released in the US in April, includes details about alternate titles considered and also tells readers which 'Harry Potter' book Rowling got 'sick' of reading after many edits.
- 'Frog' is Mo Yan's neatly crafted critique of today's ChinaA Nobel Prize laureate sets his sights on the birth rate, poverty, and 'unraveling of the social fabric' in rising China.