Streisand Discusses Design Book at NYC's BookExpo - ABC News
Creating the perfect house is more than a passion for Barbra Streisand. It's almost primal something you're looking for," Streisand said Tuesday at BookExpo America, where she was interviewed by Gayle King on stage at the Jacob K.

Brooklyn Book Festival Releases Lineup 6/2 - Broadway World
On Wednesday, June 2, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will unveil some of the renowned national and international authors scheduled to participate in the fifth annual Brooklyn Book Festival, which will take place this fall, Sunday

ZIOPHARM Prices Common Stock Offering - Genetic Engineering News
ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZIOP ) today announced Jefferies & Company, Inc. is acting as the sole book-running manager for this offering. The co-manager for this offering is JMP Securities LLC. The Company has granted the underwriters a

Summer Book Preview - Wall Street Journal
Master hacker Lisbeth Salander and her sidekick, grizzled journalist Mikael Blomkvist, made their final appearance with "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest," the last installment of Swedish thriller writer Stieg Larsson's popular trilogy.

Too Close for Comfort? Author Penning Sarah Palin - ABC News
The fences in Sarah Palin's Wasilla, Alaska, neighborhood are about to get bigger Author Joe McGinniss, who has written critically of Palin in the past, rented the house next to the former GOP presidential candidate so he can write a book about

Confirmed: Tommy Lee Jones Joins Marvel's Captain - First Showing
sudden rumor that Tommy Lee Jones might have a role in Captain America picks Steve Rogers to take part in the Super Soldier program. I'm not completely familiar with all of the comic book lore behind Captain America, so I'll let the Marvel

Filmmaker celebrates oddballs in new book - Columbus Dispatch
make the case in your book that, as a model prisoner for almost 40 years, Leslie Van Houten - a convicted killer and former Charles Manson someone sees Role Models in the bookstore and says, "Oh, that's by that nice John Waters of Hairspray

Judge a book by its trailer? - Boston Globe
Move over, all those prestigious literary awards bestowed on authors for their writing. MobyLives , a popular book blog by the indie publisher Melville House, decided it was time to give book trailers the red carpet treatment. Last week it held its

Sprinter's friend details scheme in book - ESPN.com
In a new book, a friend of Tim Montgomery details the check-writing scheme he masterminded and passed onto the sprinter and his then-girlfriend Marion Jones that landed both the track stars in jail. In his self-published book to be released next month, "Broken Silence of the Elite," Laushaun

'Amityville Horror' home for sale in NY - WLFI.com
AP) - The house made famous in the 1979 film "The Amityville Horror" is up for sale in New York — ghosts not included Eldest son Ronald DeFeo Jr. was convicted of the murders. The crime spawned a book and a series of movies that chronicled