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With their eyes on the prize — $5,000 and a professional recording session at DMI Music & Media in Pasadena, Calif. — five potential Superstars are bound for AARP’s Life@50+ event in Miami on May 15.
Everybody's looking for the next Gone Girl - publishers, who want to mimic the success of Gillian Flynn's summer 2012 thriller that sold more than six million copies, and readers, who gobbled up every word (weak ending and all). No surprise, then, that publishers and industry-watchers have hyped…
Bridget Jones, our favorite bumbling thirty something singleton is back, though now she's 51 and a widowed mother of two.
Short story fans and Canadians are among the many reveling in today's announcement that master writer Alice Munro, at 82, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature - the first Canadian-based writer to do so. Her publisher reports that she was "amazed, and very grateful" to hear the news early this…
Two books with the same title?
One of the most talked about books of the spring is New York Times food writer Mark Bittman's VB6 (a.k.a. Vegan Before Six). In it he explains his diet - which is more a strategy for healthy eating than a structured plan - where he consumes only vegan foods until dinnertime, then eats whatever he…
Back when we got together to discuss books rather than drink wine, my book club wrestled with questions like, "What do you think the author meant by...?" or "Why do you think the author ended with...?"
Browsing for your next great read you may soon discover two books with the same alluring title: Life After Life. One is by Kate Atkinson (from Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown, in April), the other by Jill McCorkle (Algonquin, this month). What's unusual is not only that books with the same name would…