Arts Oct 22 Halyna Hutchins remembered as gifted cinematographer The cinematographer who was fatally shot with a prop gun by Alec Baldwin on a movie set grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle and worked on documentary films in Europe before studying film in Los…
Arts Oct 14 Gary Paulsen, celebrated children’s author, dies at 82 Paulsen received the Newbery Honor prize for "Hatchet," "The Winter Room" and "Dogsong," a story about a young native Alaskan in search of a simpler past.
Arts Oct 13 Sally Rooney holds off on Hebrew translation of new novel Author Sally Rooney is holding off on allowing her current book to be translated into Hebrew, citing Israel’s “system of racial domination and segregation against Palestinians.”…
Arts Sep 17 Fiction longlist for National Book Awards includes Richard Powers, Lauren Groff Powers' “Bewilderment” is his first book since the Pulitzer winning “The Overstory.” Groff's “Matrix” is her third consecutive work to receive a National Book Award nomination, following “Fates and Furies” and the story collection “Florida.” Anthony Doerr's “Cloud Cuckoo Land”…
Arts Sep 13 George Wein, Newport Jazz Festival co-founder, dies at 95 A former jazz club owner and aspiring pianist, Wein launched the Newport Jazz Festival in 1954 with a lineup for the heavens — Billie Holliday and Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald and Lester Young — and kept going for more than…
Arts May 08 Lloyd Price, singer and early rock influence, dies at 88 Singer-songwriter Lloyd Price, an early rock ’n roll star and enduring maverick whose hits included such up-tempo favorites as “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Personality” and the semi-forbidden “Stagger Lee,” has died. He was 88.
Arts Apr 22 Publisher pauses release of new Philip Roth biography The publisher of a new, bestselling biography about Philip Roth has temporarily halted the book's shipping and promotion as its author, Blake Bailey, faces multiple allegations of sexual harassment and abuse.
Arts Mar 26 Beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary dies at 104 Trained as a librarian, Cleary penned more than 30 books, which sold millions of copies, saying she began writing because children told her there were no stories about kids like them.
Arts Mar 19 Margaret Atwood, Celeste Ng among contributors to pandemic novel Novelist and Authors Guild President Douglas Preston came up with the idea as a way to raise money for the Authors Guild Foundation.
Arts Feb 23 Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101 Ferlinghetti helped launch and perpetuate the Beat movement. He was known for his City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, an essential meeting place for the Beats and other bohemians in the 1950s and beyond.