Literature
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Panetta: Obama vacillated on SyriaOct 03, 2014 1:01 am - WASHINGTON - Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is criticizing President Barack Obama for leaning toward, then deciding against military action against Syria for its ...
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Economist divides parents as drifters vs. plannersOct 01, 2014 6:00 am - NEW YORK - When it comes to pregnancy and child rearing, behavioral economist Isabel V. Sawhill sees a cultural divide between the planners and the drifters. The senior ...
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Sheila E. wants to write more, expand book to filmOct 01, 2014 6:00 am - NEW YORK - Days before the release of Sheila E.'s autobiography, news spread that she was once engaged to Prince. The bigger bombshell, however, didn't get nearly as muc...
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Lena Dunham launches tour for book of adult essaysSep 30, 2014 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - There was a baby in the audience and Lena Dunham wondered why. "This is not an appropriate place for babies," she said Tuesday night as she launched the tour ...
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Author delivers 'Star Wars' tour de forceSep 29, 2014 11:30 am - Chris Taylor, deputy editor of the social media website Mashable, lets his geekdom shine with “How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a M...
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Book notes: Diane Muldrow discusses her books in LibertyvilleSep 27, 2014 6:30 am - • Meet "The Fourteenth Goldfish" author Jennifer Holm as she discusses and signs copies of her middle reader book at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, at Anderson's Bookshop, 123...
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Brilliant new biography of Tennessee WilliamsSep 27, 2014 6:30 am - When “The Glass Menagerie” opened on Broadway in March 1945, the actress cast as Southern matriarch Amanda Wingfield got so drunk before the show that a bucket was place...
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'Do Fathers Matter?' says something newSep 26, 2014 5:45 am - From the tiniest microbe or fragment of DNA to the origins of the universe, it sometimes feels as if every subject generates a vast tide of scientific studies and that v...
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Easy Rawlins eyes Hearst-like caseSep 24, 2014 5:30 am - Walter Mosley evokes the curious turns of the Patty Hearst kidnapping saga and the fractured culture of that era in “Rose Gold,” his latest Easy Rawlins crime thrill...
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Best-selling book 'The Fault in Our Stars' banned from middle schoolsSep 24, 2014 1:01 am - RIVERSIDE, Calif. - The best-selling book "The Fault in Our Stars," narrated by a 16-year-old cancer patient, has been banned from Riverside Unified School District midd...