NEW YORK (Reuters) – “11th Hour,” jumped straight to the top of Publishers Weekly best-sellers list on Thursday. The list is compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide. Hardcover Fiction Last Week 1. “11th Hour” by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown, $ 27.99) – 2. “Bring [...]
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican author Carlos Fuentes has died at the age of 83, President Felipe Calderon said on Tuesday via his Twitter account. Fuentes was known for works including The Death of Artemio Cruz and The Old Gringo. (Reporting by Liz Diaz, writing by Krista Hughes; Editing by Anthony Boadle) Books News Headlines [...]
LONDON (Reuters) – The tale of an 11-year-old boy hidden from the Nazis by a prostitute has won a fiction prize which celebrates writing translated into English. “Blooms of Darkness” by 80-year old Israeli Aharon Appelfeld was awarded the 2012 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize at a ceremony in London. It tells the story of Hugo, [...]
TOKYO (Reuters) – A fear of flying inspired bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch’s latest book, centering on a woman who awakes in a hospital with total amnesia, one of two people left alive after a massive plane crash. “The Song Remains the Same” follows Nell Slattery as she tries to piece together her former life [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, whose children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are” has been a standard bedtime story for at least three generations, has died at the age of 83. Sendak died during the night at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut from complications from a recent stroke, a hospital spokesperson [...]
ISTANBUL (Reuters Life!) – Nobel prize-winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk realizes a long-nurtured dream on Saturday with the opening of an actual “Museum of Innocence” – a collection of relics of a half-century of ordinary life – as depicted in his 2008 novel of the same name. Pamuk set out “not to do a spectacular [...]
ISTANBUL (Reuters Life!) – Nobel prize-winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk realizes a long-nurtured dream on Saturday with the opening of an actual “Museum of Innocence” – a collection of relics of a half-century of ordinary life – as depicted in his 2008 novel of the same name. Pamuk set out “not to do a spectacular [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – David Baldacci’s latest novel, “The Innocent,” shot to the top of Publishers Weekly best-sellers list on Thursday. The list is compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide. Hardcover Fiction Last Week 1. “The Innocent” by David Baldacci (Grand Central, $ 27.99) – 2. “The [...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Comedian Steve Harvey is a veteran of stand-up comedy and television with programs like his sitcom “The Steve Harvey Show” and the game show “Family Feud,” which he currently hosts. This Friday, his 2009 bestselling, non-fiction book “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, [...]
(Reuters) – Jazz musician Herbie Hancock will reveal intimate details of his career in a memoir due for release in fall 2014, Viking Press said on Tuesday. Hancock, 71, has become a pioneering force in the jazz and blues music world, earning 14 Grammy awards and an Academy Award over his five-decade career, and seeing [...]
