Another Member Quits Body That Awards Nobel Literature Prize
A member of the academy that awards the Nobel Prize in literature says she is leaving the body that has been marred by sex-abuse and financial crimes scandals.
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South Carolina Festival Remembers Pat Conroy the Mentor
This week, thousands will converge on the small town of Beaufort, South Carolina to reflect upon the legacy of “Prince of Tides” author Pat Conroy, a man who never met an aspiring writer he didn’t want to mentor.
Read morePowers, Edugyan, Johnson Tipped to Win Man Booker Prize
An environmental epic that has been likened to “Moby Dick” for trees, the story of an escaped slave and a powerful debut by a 27-year-old novelist are among favorites to win the Man Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday.
Read moreCopy of ‘Lady Chatterley’ Used at Obscenity Trial for Sale
A paperback copy of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” used by the judge in the book’s landmark U.K. obscenity trial is expected to sell at auction for up to 15,000 pounds ($20,000).
Read moreBook on Trump Raises Worries in South Korea About Alliance
Donald Trump had to be tricked out of killing a U.S.-South Korean trade deal? He threatened to move a U.S. missile defense system from South Korea to Oregon? He ordered a plan for a pre-emptive attack on North Korea?
Read more‘Light Between Oceans’ Suit Flounders at 2nd Circuit
Fighting to revive copyright claims over “The Light Between Oceans,” a lawyer for a screenwriter gave the Second Circuit his best Humphrey Bogart impression at oral arguments Thursday.
Read moreArtist Thwacked for Conan the Barbarian Infringement
Cracking down on the unauthorized sale of miniature Conan the Barbarian figurines, a federal judge hit a Spanish artist on Wednesday with a $21,000 copyright judgment.
Read moreHemingway Story From 1956 Published for First Time
The themes and trappings are familiar for an Ernest Hemingway narrative: Paris, wartime, talk of books and wine and the scars of battle.
Read moreCalifornia Can’t Duck Minority Students’ Literacy Lawsuit
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has advanced a lawsuit filed against the state of California over poor literacy rates at schools in communities of color.
Read moreNewton’s ‘Principia’ Among Items in Alleged $8M Book Scheme
An archivist and an antique bookseller were charged Friday with stealing millions of dollars’ worth of rare books, illustrations, maps and photographs from a Pittsburgh library over a 20-year period, including Isaac Newton’s “Principia,” considered a watershed of science.
Read moreWidower Wins Court Battle for Estate of ‘Thorn Birds’ Author
An Australian judge ruled on Friday that best-selling author Colleen McCullough’s widower was the sole beneficiary of her estate following a bitter court wrangle.
Read moreThe Beatles’ ‘All You Need Is Love’ Adapted for Picture Book
Two new children’s books will add pictures to the words of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Read moreWriters’ Spat Over ‘The Girls’ Likely Headed to Trial
While celebrated novelist Emma Cline’s bestseller “The Girls” may have things in common with a screenplay penned by her ex-boyfriend, a federal judge ruled late Thursday that he didn’t find the two works substantially similar enough to support the accusation that she stole her material from him.
Read morePhilip Roth, Towering Novelist, Dies at 85
Philip Roth, America’s pre-eminent novelist and a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize, died of congestive heart failure Tuesday night in a Manhattan hospital. He was 85.
Read moreTom Wolfe, Pioneering ‘New Journalist,’ Dead at 88
Author Tom Wolfe, who chronicled everything from hippies to the space race before turning his sharp eye to fiction, has died. He was 88.
Read moreProducers of ‘Mockingbird’ Play Settle With Lee Estate
Foreclosing the chance that Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” would see a courtroom preview, producers and the estate of Harper Lee announced Thursday that they settled their artistic differences.
Read moreFight Over ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Play Moved to New York
Granting a Broadway production company’s request to move a lawsuit over its stage adaption of “To Kill a Mockingbird” from Alabama to New York, a federal judge said Monday that a live courtroom performance could be needed to decide the case.
Read moreRichard Gere
Richard Gere’s loan-out company Gere Productions claims Random Acts Entertainment LLC tried to “extort a payment of $500,000” from him after breaching contract by failing to produce an acceptable screenplay of the book “Bones of the Master: A Buddhist Monk’s Search for the Lost Heart of China,” in L.A. Superior Court.
Read moreNobel Body: ‘Unacceptable Behavior’ Not Widely Known
An investigation into sexual misconduct allegations at the Swedish body that hands out the coveted Nobel Prize in Literature found Friday that “unacceptable behavior in the form of unwanted intimacy” has taken place within the ranks of the prestigious institution.
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