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Hirsuite portrait chosen for ‘Steve Jobs’ paperback

It's not the iconic portrait of a turtle-necked, close-cropped, bearded Steve Jobs that adorns the cover of Walter Isaacson's paperback biography.

Steve With Hair is a look we'll all know by the time Simon & Schuster's mass market edition hits the shelves this September.

That's thanks in part to the Ashton Kutcher biopic due a month earlier in ... Read More

A protester sleeps with a book by prominent journalist and writer Soner Yalcin in Gezi park in Istanbul’s Taksim square. - Reuters pic, June 19, 2013.

A protester sleeps with a book by prominent journalist and writer Soner Yalcin in Gezi park in Istanbul’s Taksim square. - Reuters pic, June 19, 2013.

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Few takers at Faulkner auction in NY

June 17, 2013, New York - A major auction of manuscripts and letters of American writer William Faulkner, a Nobel laureate, drew an underwhelming public response at auction in New York Tuesday, with the ... Read More

Salman Rushdie to recieve 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award

Denmark, June 16, 2013 - British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie (pic) , author of "Midnight's Children," has been announced winner of the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Litteraturpris, an award given every ... Read More

Pulitzer-winner Gellman writing book on rise of spy state

NEW YORK, June 14 — Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barton Gellman is writing a book on the “rise of the surveillance-industrial state” after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, publisher ... Read More

Long-lost diary of top Hitler aide offers window into Nazi soul

WILMINGTON (Delaware), June 14 — US officials yesterday unveiled the 400-page diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a top aide to Adolf Hitler, who oversaw the genocide against Jews and others during World War ... Read More

Book Talk: English history with a twist in ‘The Boleyn King’

By Elaine Lies

TOKYO, June 13 – What would have happened if Anne Boleyn, the wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I, had given her husband the son he so desperately wanted instead of miscarrying and eventually ... Read More

Could school-gate politics replace mommy porn for women readers?

LONDON, June 13 — A British writer whose debut novel about mothers at the school gate sparked a seven-way bidding war between publishers has attributed the overnight success of her book to striking a ... Read More

Rare 1938 Superman comic book fetches RM525,000

LOS ANGELES, June 13 — A rare 75-year-old comic book featuring the debut of Superman found in a Minnesota home’s wall fetched US$175,000 (RM525,000) at auction, comic book seller Comicconnect.com said ... Read More

Greg Iles to write more Penn Cage thrillers

NEW YORK, June 12 — Fans of Greg Iles’ Penn Cage books can look forward to several more of the thrillers with the announcement of a new trilogy, the first of which is slated for release in May 2014, the ... Read More

Comic writer’s Ghost Rider copyright lawsuit revived on appeal

NEW YORK, June 12 — A comic book writer who claims he created the flaming-skulled character called Ghost Rider got another chance to press his claim yesterday when a US appeals court revived his lawsuit ... Read More

‘1984’ sales skyrocket in wake of US spy scandal

WASHINGTON, June 12 — Big brother is watching — sales of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” have skyrocketed in the wake of revelations of US government surveillance.The centennial edition of the ... Read More

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