Arts & Lifestyle News

November 12, 2019

Apple Book charts for week ending November 10, 2019: (Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher) 1. Blue Moon by Lee ...

November 12, 2019

The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store

App Store Official Charts for the week ending November 10, 2019: Top Paid iPhone Apps: 1. Minecraft, Mojang 2. Heads Up!, ...

November 12, 2019

Italian insurer Generali seeks art market leadership

Italian insurer Generali launched a new business Tuesday to cover art works, engaging as a poster boy the contemporary artist ...

November 12, 2019

Winfrey, Coates to speak at upcoming Toni Morrison tribute

Oprah Winfrey, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Jesmyn Ward will be among the speakers at a tribute to the late Toni Morrison. The Nobel ...

November 12, 2019

Ringo Starr on touring with McCartney: 'We never discussed it'

Ringo Starr talks about how all four Beatles are part of the song "Grow Old With Me" on his new album, why the Fab Four ...

November 12, 2019

Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii is writing memoir, due in 2021

Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, the Senate's first Asian American woman and only current immigrant, is working on a memoir.

November 12, 2019

Provocative Atlantic asks how civil war can be avoided

The Atlantic magazine was founded in the years leading up to the Civil War, so it's worth noting when it produces a special ...

November 12, 2019

Narrative turns to world of poaching in 'Tracking Game'

"Tracking Game: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery," Crooked Lane Books, by Margaret Mizushima An explosion turns a fun evening into ...

November 12, 2019

Count community theater among holiday traditions for many

The Railsback family in North Carolina enjoys lots of conventional holiday festivities — get-togethers, special meals, ...

November 12, 2019

Airborne Toxic Event leader Mikel Jollett writing memoir

Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett is writing a memoir. Celadon Books announced Tuesday that Jollett's "Hollywood ...

November 12, 2019

ShowBiz Minute: Cherry, Glamour, Disney

Canadian hockey commentator Don Cherry fired for rant over immigrants; Charlize Theron, Margaret Atwood and Ava DuVernay ...

November 12, 2019

The Latest: Author grateful inmate didn't face firing squad

The Latest on a Utah death-row inmate who died in prison (all times local): 3:55 p.m. Author Jon Krakauer says he's grateful ...

November 11, 2019

The top 10 audiobooks on Audible.com

Audible.com best-sellers for week ending November 8: Fiction: 1. You Can Thank Me Later: A Novella by James Dommek, Jr.

November 11, 2019

Reflections on writing about the lives of Beckett, Beauvoir

"Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir," Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, by Deirdre Bair Deirdre Bair ...

November 11, 2019

'My Penguin Year' works best as companion to nature series

"My Penguin Year: Life Among the Emperors," William Morrow, by Lindsay McCrae It's an odd thing to write in a book review, ...

November 11, 2019

Author makes readers care about boys about to become men

"Nothing More Dangerous," Mulholland, by Allen Eskens Nothing is more dangerous, says one character quoting the Rev.

November 11, 2019

Fans and newcomers alike will enjoy 'Twisted Twenty-Six'

"Twisted Twenty-Six," Putnam, by Janet Evanovich Edna Mazur, Stephanie's eccentric grandmother, marries a gangster named ...

November 11, 2019

Author endeavors to show how animals relate to humans

"Our Wild Calling — How connecting with animals can transform our lives — and save theirs," Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, ...

November 10, 2019

AP sources: Former Trump adviser John Bolton has a book deal

Former national security adviser John Bolton has a book deal, The Associated Press has learned. The hawkish Bolton departed ...