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New Yorker magazine staff writers Adam Gopnik and Malcolm Gladwell appear together April 17 at the Long Wharf Theater.

On Monday, Donna Tartt won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Goldfinch . It was no surprise, really, since the much-anticipated novel made the New York Times best-seller list during its first week on the shelves.

Piper Kerman told her side of her story in her nonfiction book "Orange Is the New Black," and now Catherine Cleary Wolters, the inspiration for character Alex Vause in the Netflix series of the same name, has stepped forward to tell hers.

Dave Eggers published his last novel, "The Circle," in September. And now, less than a year later, he has another one due out.

Witnesses at an upcoming trial over no-hire agreements in Silicon Valley should not be allowed to offer evidence that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was "a bully," four major tech companies argued in a court filing.

According to Nielsen BookScan , James Patterson has sold more books in the past decade than any other writer - more than Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling or horror master Stephen King.

David Fincher likely won't direct the upcoming film about the late Apple founder Steve Jobs after Sony Pictures turned down Fincher's supposed "aggressive" demands for $10 million upfront and control of marketing of the movie, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The first trailer of the film adaptation of Gillian Flynn's best-selling novel Gone Girl, starring Ben Affleck, has been released.

Two registered sex offenders who have known each other since at least 2012 have been charged with raping and killing four California women since last year.

Teddy Roosevelt died in 1919. Doris Kearns Goodwin was not born until 1943, but to hear her tell it, she spent the better part of seven years living with the legendary U.S. president.

The man accused of killing three people in attacks at a Jewish community center and Jewish retirement complex near Kansas City is a well-known white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader who was once the... Never one to keep his hatred to himself, Frazier Glenn Cross for decades sought out any soapbox to espouse his white-supremacist beliefs, ... (more)

Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch," already among the most popular and celebrated novels of the past year, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

One of the country's top colonial historians, Alan Taylor, has won his second Pulitzer, for "The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War In Virginia."

Noah Coburn, a political anthropologist who has written two books about Afghanistan, will present lecture about the recent Afghan elections at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Skidmore College's Filene Recital Hall.

A few years ago, authors Malcolm Gladwell and Geoff Colvin brought to the public's attention the 10,000 hour rule for becoming an expert.

Kumala has partnered with Pathe to become the official partner of the UK DVD release of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.

On Saturday, April 19, people of all ages are invited to come to the library between 10 a.m. and noon to make paper baskets, bird's nests and other fun items to celebrate spring.

In front of a live audience at The Wilbur Theater in Boston, Gaffigan's obsession with all things food comes to fruition as he tackles a cornucopia of new food topics from fruit to seafood to donuts.

Congratulations to Josh Hutcherson for winning MTV's Best Male Performance. We all know he killed it as Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire , but seriously? The "best" performance? Leo DiCaprio can act circles around the young hunk, but perhaps that's the problem.

Last book read and favorite book: Last book: 'The Lucky One' by Nicholas Sparks; favorite book: 'Jacob Have I Loved' by Katherine Paterson Favorite teaching memory: Ten years ago, I had the opportunity to have a young lady named Mia in my classroom.