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Mary Roach at Boulder Book Store, April 22. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Netflix has released a new Orange Is the New Black season 2 trailer. For those unfamiliar with the terrific series, it takes place inside a women's prison, and although the "main character" is a socialite incarcerated for an old crime, the supporting cast is just as interesting .

For the second week in a row, "The Wolf of Wall Street" was No. 1 for movies on demand from March 31 to April 6, 2014, according to Rentrak.

Best-selling author Hilary Mantel has criticised 'abuse and bullying' in public discourse, following reaction to a lecture she delivered on royalty through the centuries last year.

Random House says it plans to publish a young adult adaption of Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling survival saga "Unbroken."

Should you read the book first? Or watch the film? Dominic Corry investigates his options ahead of Ben Affleck's new film, Gone Girl.

The plaque to honor Philip Reid was unveiled during a ceremony in Hyattsville, Md.

Former Vice President Al Gore took center stage in Manoa, and was fired up to share his message.

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.