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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actress Anjelica Huston is writing a memoir that will detail her problematic relationship with her prolific filmmaker father, John Huston, as well as her former relationship with actor Jack Nicholson, Scribner books said on Tuesday.The 59-year-old Huston will ...
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - A book by a Japanese man accused of killing a British English teacher in a 2007 crime that riveted Japan and how he evaded capture by police for years is selling well less than a month after publication.Tatsuya ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama may have inadvertently stolen an author's thunder on Tuesday when he told the country that someone is working on a book about the 10 letters from regular Americans that he reads every night.Obama has been receiving ...
LONDON (Reuters) - British novelist Beryl Bainbridge, shortlisted five times for the coveted Booker Prize for fiction but never a winner, will finally be honored with a special "Best of Beryl" award, organizers said on Tuesday.Bainbridge, who died last year, came to ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Jane Lynch, who has enjoyed breakout success as the scheming cheerleader coach Sue Sylvester on hit television comedy "Glee," will write a memoir of her life with this message to her many fans: "relax."Publisher Hyperion's Voice imprint ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - St. Lucia poet Derek Walcott, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992, scooped the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry on Monday for his 2010 collection "White Egrets."He was chosen from a shortlist of 10 authors including ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bob Dylan is reported to have signed a six-book deal that includes two follow-ups to his 2004 best-selling memoir "Chronicles: Volume One".Publishing industry website Crain's New York Business.com cited several industry insiders as saying the deal with Simon ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - Once the backdrop of romantic Bollywood movies in the 1960s and 1970s, Kashmir's idyllic image has darkened since a separatist rebellion broke out two decades ago, forcing many into exile from a beloved homeland.Siddhartha Gigoo's debut novel, ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Sherlock Holmes is to be brought back to life in the first new novel about the great Baker Street detective to be officially approved.Anthony Horowitz, author of stories about teenage spy Alex Rider, has been chosen by Arthur Conan ...
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Cynthia Hand was busy with life, working and raising a child, and hadn't had any desire to write for quite some time when she began to hear a voice in her head, speaking lines.It turned out to be ...
