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Week ending May 12th, 2013, powered by Nielsen BookScan. Copyright 2013 The Nielsen Company. HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Dead Ever After: A Sookie ...

Hot off the press: Seen and heard in Cannes
Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: YOUNG STARS SUAREZ, IRVINE GET HONORED FOR PROMISE: The Cannes ...

DiCaprio, Spielberg open a stormy Cannes
The Cannes Film Festival got off to a blockbuster, if stormy start, as Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" opened on a soggy French Riviera. Amid heavy ...

DiCaprio's 'Gatsby' brings 1920s glamor to Cannes
Like millions of others, Leonardo DiCaprio read and loved "The Great Gatsby" as a teenager. But he says he only recently began to understand it.

For Baz Luhrmann, Cannes is a birthplace
Baz Luhrmann might never have gone on to direct "The Great Gatsby" — or anything else, for that matter — if not for the Cannes Film Festival.

'Gatsby' gives 'Iron Man 3' a run for its money
Gatsby looks almost as great as a superhero at the weekend box office. Leonard DiCaprio's "The Great Gatsby" partied like it was the Roaring '20s with ...

Murakami: Relationships in new book intrigued me
In a rare public appearance, respected Japanese writer Haruki Murakami said his latest novel was an experiment and grew longer than expected as he ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's handwritten ledger online
An intriguing peek into the daily scribbles and life of author F. Scott Fitzgerald is now available online, just weeks before the opening of the movie ...
Simon & Schuster to offer e-books to libraries
The publisher of Stephen King, Bob Woodward and other top-selling authors has changed its policy of withholding e-books from libraries. Simon & ...

Japanese flock to Murakami book with mystery title
Japanese readers are flocking to buy Haruki Murakami's latest novel, even though almost nothing has been disclosed about the book by one of the ...
'Great Gatsby' to open Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival has an American flavor this year, with a Hollywood icon heading the jury and a quintessential U.S. literary figure opening ...

Highlights of Hollywood's 2013 film lineup
Highlights of Hollywood's 2013 schedule (release dates are subject to change): JANUARY: "Broken City": Mark Wahlberg's an ex-cop out for revenge ...

Theater festivals fire up a cold New York
Listening to Supreme Court justices question lawyers doesn't sound like the stuff of great theater. But somehow it is — in the hands of one of the ...

Chabon ties it all together in 'Telegraph Avenue'
The way Michael Chabon sees it, he took the cowardly way out early in his career. It's a startling admission from one of modern American literature's ...

Roth retires but Wolfe, Wouk among authors past 80
Philip Roth, 79 and looking fit in recent photographs, has said that after looking back on his long and prolific career he decided he had written ...