Author of Rocky tribute schedules book signings
Michael Madigan, author of a popular, commemorative book about the 150-year history of the Rocky Mountain News, will be signing copies at several locations in the next few weeks.
‘Angela’s Ashes’ author Frank McCourt dies at 78
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela’s Ashes died Sunday at age 78, The New York Times reports.
Brooklyn bookstore threatened via YouTube
A YouTube video shows a decapitated Lady Liberty head from a stolen statue belonging to Vox Pop, a coffee and bookstore. The video makes what appear to be terrorist threats.
“It’s very disturbing,” shop operator Debi Ryan told CNN, adding the video struck a chord similar to that of terrorist assassination videos. “I don’t know what [...]
New book claims Hemingway was spy for KGB
According to the newly published Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, Ernest Hemingway was agent Argo recruited by the Soviets in 1941.
American bookstore in Paris closes its doors
For over a century, Brentano’s the English-language bookstore at the heart of Paris was home away from home to such greats of American literature as Twain, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Now it is no more.
TOR to serialize Cory Doctorow’s ‘Makers’
The book explores many of Doctorow’s provocative and visionary ideas, specifically, the concept of a “plausible premise” as it applies to hackers discovering the connections between technologies and concepts to create new technologies in the wake of an economic collapse.
