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Stephen King's fantasy novel "Eyes of the Dragon" could at last become a movie or miniseries.
"Kick-Ass" actress Chloe Moretz has been chosen for the title role in a movie remake of Stephen King's "Carrie," a horror story about a teenaged girl whose telekinetic powers turn a high school prom into an inferno.
You most likely know Pierce Brosnan from his work as 007, but he's actually been quite busy since his Bond days.
A nun seated in a chair floats in midair, an ocean liner squeezes into a Venice canal, a suburban home appears to blast off like a rocket ship, these are just a few of "The Mysteries of Harris Burdick."
Horror-meister, Stephen King calls George Pelecanos "perhaps the greatest living American crime writer." His stories are set in Pelecanos' hometown of Washington, D.C., but this is not the side of the U.S. capitol that you see portrayed on TV with white marble monuments, lawyers and lobbyists. Pelecanos is more interested in working families struggling to get by, the racial tensions in its ethnic neighborhoods and the low-lifes on the edges. His crime-writing peers call Pelecanos the "undisputed poet" of Washington's gritty side.
Horror-meister, Stephen King calls George Pelecanos "perhaps the greatest living American crime writer." Pelecanos sets his crimes in the U.S. capital. And it's not the side of Washington that you see portrayed on TV with white marble monuments and movers and shakers. The "undisputed poet" of Washington's gritty side is what his peers call Pelecanos.
For fans, the name Joe Hill ignites a sense of wonder; of writing that cannot be held captive merely by the paper or digital screen the words are written upon. But wait. Could it be you are unfamiliar with Joe Hill, the award-winning writer who is the son of ... more on that later.
A haunted room at the Ahwahnee hotel was named for Queen Elizabeth II after she roomed there in 1983
A blockbuster book will get a new look from readers this week, when "The Passage," one of the best-selling and best-reviewed novels of the past year, is released in paperback.
So Randy Moss has announced that for the rest of this season he will conduct his own press conferences, providing all the questions as well as the answers, ingeniously removing reporters from the traditional Q&A, in which sportswriters have long played the Q and Moss has expertly played the A.
The Florida theme park's Halloween Horror Nights pushes the fright envelope
Are you more of a Margaret Atwood? Dan Brown? Or Leo Tolstoy?
Whether you're heading to a spa for a girls-only weekend or chugging down the highway in a car full of Disney-crazed kids, a road trip is the ultimate rite of summer. But along with the classic rock blasting on the radio, road trips often involve the kinds of food you'd never think of eating at home--neon-orange cheese curls, mega-ounce slushies, unidentifiable dried meat in a plastic pack.
When Dan Brown's blockbuster novel "The Lost Symbol" hit stores in September, it may have offered a peek at the future of bookselling.
Students, we know you may not be all that ecstatic about seeing your teachers -- and the homework they assign -- as the school year starts up. Pay attention in class, though; you never know what hidden talents your teachers might have. Just look at all of these famous former teachers:
Don Hewitt created a remarkable system to get the best stories on the air.
How well do you know the authors of your favorite bestselling beach fare? We did some digging and came up with a few surprising facts on some of the literary world's biggest cash cows.
Sci-Fi Channel's "Ghost Hunters" are on the hunt for the paranormal.
Strange things seem to happen when Grant Wilson enters a room.
TIME talks to the author of Julia and Ghost Story about snobby writers, horror classics and his next collaboration with Stephen King
Time.com: Roy Blount, Jr.updated: Fri Oct 10 2008 13:00:00
TIME talks to the American humorist about the most literary band in America, why he advises investing $20,000 in mass transit and what Sarah Palin might mean for the future of politics
For years the financial markets roared along as if there were nothing to fear. Now it's payback time -- and all of us will be feeling the pain
The best-selling author is previewing his new book with a video–comic book adaptation, available online
It sounds like the stuff of Stephen King -- generating body parts, repairing damaged bone and growing back muscle like a gecko's severed tail. But stem cells represent a new wave of medicine that is more science than science fiction. One day they may not only lengthen an athlete's career but also provide the quick healing that Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte was looking for when he used HGH to recover from elbow tendinitis in 2002.
Stephen King knows a horror show when he sees one.
The master of the horror story and the horror movie talks about his new movie, his new book and his new musical.
It's the end of the world -- again!
BOSTON -- An autumn rain fell from the dark, windswept sky above Fenway Park as Josh Beckett -- with bulbs flashing everywhere -- unleashed a 96 mph fastball at 8:37 p.m. Wednesday. It was the first pitch of the first game of the 103rd World Series, an electric October moment in this hallowed baseball cathedral. Some three hours later, near the merciful end of the most lopsided Game 1 in the history of the Series, the country had long flipped over to CSI; Red Sox uberfan Stephen King was in the stands reading Newsweek; and Todd Helton, standing on Fenway's moist infield grass, gazed around the ballpark thinking to himself, "Is this the World Series or spring training?"
Dependably profitable books are rare in the publishing business, and they generally come with a name like Stephen King or Harry Potter attached. But another lucrative brand of bestseller has emerged in the last few years: the instant-release blue-ribbon commission report, with the Baker-Hamilton Commission's "Iraq Study Group Report" its latest example.
These should be happy times for book publishers.
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You're sitting on the porch," says Caroline Rose Hunt, 83, rolling her vowels charmingly, "where they used to sit out here and sweat." Though it's steamy in Dallas today, we're cool. The porch was ...
You're sitting on the porch," says Caroline Rose Hunt, 83, rolling her vowels charmingly, "where they used to sit out here and sweat."
Okay I love my wife. But every couple has issues, particularly when money is involved.
The Rolling Stones call themselves "the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band." The Clash was "the only band that matters."
When Charles Ardai and Max Phillips, both lovers of pulp fiction, decided to form a new paperback imprint dedicated to resuscitating the golden age of pulp paperbacks, they did so in the time-honored manner of pulp characters through the ages -- over drinks.
Amazon.com wants your short stories.
People in the first blush of romance can get a little satisfied with themselves (they develop an "I'm worth it!" glow). That attitude reaches a painful state of insularity in "A Lot Like Love."
Just in time for Halloween, to quote the Bard in "Macbeth," act four, scene one: "By the pricking of my thumbs, / Something wicked this way comes."
With its unwieldy name and some high-profile competition from the likes of "Pulp Fiction" and "Forrest Gump," "The Shawshank Redemption" kind of got lost in the shuffle in 1994.
James Cromwell has lived a life of extremes -- on screen and off.
Before there was Stephen King, there was Ira Levin.
I'm no fan of Chris Columbus, the man who directed the first two "Harry Potter" films.
In the movie based on Stephen King's short story, "The Running Man," prisoners are given a chance for liberty if they agree to partake in a television game show. The catch? They're let loose to fend for themselves in a "kill or be killed" blood sport.
showbuzzupdated: Wed Mar 24 2004 11:43:00
Jim Carrey says he couldn't have played the lead role in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" if he hadn't been through some painful relationships.
Movies based on Stephen King works are usually like the proverbial little girl with the curl: When they are good, they are very, very good.
Attention, middle-class families: You can no longer afford to have children. That's the message of The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke, by far the scariest boo...
You're heading out on your summer holiday. The trunk's loaded, and the kids are packed in the car. Would you set out without first consulting a road map? And end up in the scary part of the woods, ...
Just a few short years ago people were saying that dot-coms would put book publishers out of business. Book companies, after all, were just the kind of dinosaurs that weren't supposed to survive in...
Somebody please stop me. It's nearly midnight on a Monday evening, and I'm sitting in front of my computer, hoping to pay many times the actual value of a normally inexpensive, everyday item. No, I...
Let us begin by picturing something you like. It could be kittens. Or jazz trumpeters. Or tasty chocolate fudge. You have that picture in your mind? Okay. Now imagine that times, say, a thousand. A...
No one in Washington seems to worry about budget deficits anymore--no one, that is, except the Congressional Budget Office. Its recent study Long-Term Budgetary Pressures and Policy Options describ...
Maybe it's the six bad quarters of vertically challenged growth. Maybe it's the knowledge that Europe 1992 will probably not come down in exactly the big way we'd hoped. Maybe it's the threat of gl...
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