Literature News

Ask someone who came of age in the 1980s what they remember about the movie Eddie and the Cruisers and one of the following responses is likely: It spawned the great rock-radio staple "On the Dark Side" and briefly made MTV stars of the improbably named John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band .

Halfway through this engaging and authoritative biography , I decided to interrupt my reading to look at some of its subject's many stories and novels.

Simply describing Pequot Library's weekend event as a "book sale" would be much like referring to Paris as a city with a lot of old paintings displayed in a lot of old buildings.

The co-creator of BBC Two's The Fast Show graduated from the UEA in 1980 after studying for a BA in England and American Literature with a minor in Film Studies.

LONDON: British-Indian writer and Kolkata-born Neel Mukherjee's latest novel 'The Lives of Others' that is set in 1960s Bengal and revolves around a man's extremist political activism during troubled times has been shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize 2014.

Grumblers grumble as Hollywood rolls out concept art for what amounts to rebooting Batman for the third time in recent memory.

Michael Schmidt's massive new book, "The Novel: A Biography," covers nearly 700 years of prose and hundreds of writers.

If you love books and maps, then Dorothy Collective has got the cartographical wonder for you: their Book Map features titles of over 600 books by literature's greatest authors - from Thomas Hardy to Virginia Woolf, and Tolkien to Kurt Vonnegut - in form of a street map in the style of a turn of the century London.

His goal is is to create a Bible where "The Biblical Literature [is] designed & crafted for reading, separated into four elegant volumes, and free of all numbers, notes, etc."

The cover image for George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' originally published in 1950, which still has themes that easily relate to today's audiences.

The Boston-based athletic company released this month the "Authors Collection," a three-tier shoe collection inspired by great American literature.

Such clearance will permit Galmed to conduct clinical trials of its product candidate, aramchol, in for the treatment of fatty liver disorders.

In the last seven months I would have to say we've covered any number of topics including religion, politics, my life, my sons, my pets, and music.

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Ms. Cooley is the debut novelist of Ice Shear . A native of upstate New York, she currently lives in Campbell, California.

If the kids don't leave Tom Sawyer Days wet and muddy, Sandusky County Parks District Program Coordinator Jeanne Dietrich said they missed out.

George Bailey's unlikeable grandson will get a visit from his guardian angel/aunt in the sequel.

Gallegos, 29, maintains a hobby of hand-sculpting aluminum foil figurines based on his imagination and characters from historical and popular literature and television and film.

In 1993, Lois Lowry wrote a slim book for youth about totalitarianism, euthanasia, suicide, sexual awakening and infanticide.

Like the old Classics Illustrated line, which adapted the classics of literature to comics form, Catherine Ingram's new "This Is..." line brings the world of high art to the comics medium.