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Maureen McCormick kept 'Brady' book details a secret from co-stars

Maureen McCormick never opened up to her Brady Bunch siblings about her new tell-all book. "She's been pretty quiet about it," ...

Tony Curtis takes a frank look behind with 'American Prince'

On an easel in Tony Curtis' art studio overlooking the Las Vegas skyline stands a blown-up profile shot of the actor as a young ...

The enduring legacy of Emily Post: Manners still matter

The matriarch of American manners is getting another spin around the dance floor this month, thanks to a major new biography, ...

'Moby-Dick' sparks Mass. legislative battle

The question of whether to choose an official book for the state of Massachusetts made for a whale of a debate.

Betting makes Nobel literature jury suspect leak

A surprising number of bettors correctly chose French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio to win the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature ...

New Bible has a 'green' theme

A new edition of the Bible sets out to show that the seeds of environmentalism were first sown in the Garden of Eden. Just as ...

France's Le Clezio wins Nobel literature prize

France's Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works characterized by "poetic ...

Spillane's friend hammers out the rest of author's novel

Just before his death two years ago, crime writer Mickey Spillane called friend and author Max Allan Collins and asked him to ...

Roiphe's 'Epilogue' is a window into grief

"Here, not here, not returning." That is the hard reality of death, Anne Roiphe writes in Epilogue, a searing memoir that details ...

5 questions for Cesar Millan

Cesar Millan, National Geographic channel's "dog whisperer," is out with A Member of the Family: Cesar Millan's Guide to a Lifetime ...

Heroine of 'Dragon Tattoo' leaves a distinctive mark

Sometimes a mystery succeeds because of one indelible character. Consider Miss Marple. Now there is Lisbeth Salander, star of ...

Historians ponder Lincoln's legacy, lessons we can learn

Historian James M. McPherson's book, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief , comes in the midst of a heated presidential ...

Eco-friendly books run the gamut of green

America is deep into green. Green books are filling up bookstore shelves. You can even read them with green reading glasses ...

'Most Wanted Man': Be on the lookout for John le Carre's latest

John le Carr, master of the spy novel, is a keen observer of world events. He made his mark writing suspenseful tales of the ...

Youth lit used as weight-loss tool

Here's a novel approach for motivating girls to lose weight: Have them read a novel with an overweight heroine.

Spiegelman's 'Breakdowns' out from underground

Long before Art Spiegelman became the first and only graphic novelist to win a Pulitzer Prize, he published his first collection ...

Book Buzz: Trigiani pens well-heeled 'Valentine'

See what's new on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list. Also, check out the surprises Neil Gaiman has in store for fans during ...

200-year-old Kate Chopin's house burns down

Fire has destroyed a historic house and museum that once was the home of author Kate Chopin (SHOH-pan).

Marilynne Robinson's 'Home' feels uncomfortably familiar

What's the literary equivalent of wearing too much lipstick? Someone, please hand Marilynne Robinson a Kleenex. Somewhere beneath ...

Barth's 'Development' latches on to foibles of the gated

You live in a gated community on Maryland's Eastern Shore. You spend your time going to dinner parties with your neighbors. And ...

New in paperback: 'Inside' scoop on Supreme Court

USA TODAY's Richard Willing says The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin, is a "sparkling" ...

Nobel literature prize to be announced on Oct. 9

The 2008 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature will be presented on Oct. 9, the Swedish Academy said Friday, completing the ...

'Liberty' reigns in Keillor's Wobegon

Liberty, Garrison Keillor's sixth comic novel set in mythical Lake Wobegon, Minn., asks a fundamental, age-old question: "What ...

Former astronaut Aldrin working on memoir

Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, is working on a memoir about his triumphs in space and the ...

Enter Bushnell's 'One Fifth Avenue' for glamour, fun

Candace Bushnell made pop-culture history with Sex and the City, her column-turned-book-turned-TV-series-turned-movie about accessory-obsessed ...

Bloviation factored into Bill O'Reilly's youth

After four best sellers, Bill O'Reilly asks: "So what is there left to say? I mean, come on, everybody knows O'Reilly is a champion ...

Aravind Adiga wins literature's Man Booker prize

Aravind Adiga has won the prestigious Man Booker prize for his first novel.

Publisher speeds up release of Muhammad book

With British publication in doubt for Sherry Jones' The Jewel of Medina, the U.S. publisher of her controversial novel about ...

Blum's 'American Lightning' is history electrified

If you read even a few turn-of-the-century true-crime stories, you know journalists were quick to call almost any crime that ...

 

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