Bill Zehme’s biography, “Carson the Magnificent,” tries to break through. Folk tales and beloved characters from cultures around the globe can are celebrated in popular books for young readers.
The book details the pair’s lives together, from their childhood to their years touring the world as rock stars. (Out now) Carlin, who previously authored a biography of Bruce Springsteen ...
Indeed, throughout the decades, plenty of books — some highly acclaimed, some much more obscure — have been taken by filmmakers and transformed into some of the greatest motion pictures in ...
Earlier this week, I picked up a book to distract myself from my phone, which was blowing up with social media alerts, election prognostications and sweaty-palmed predictions about who the Dodgers ...
The latest from the chronicler of urban grit known for “Lush Life” and “Clockers” — as well as writing on “The Wire” TV series — is set in 2008 in East Harlem, where a five-story ...
Books can hold decades of earned knowledge in the span of a few hundred pages. When it comes to understanding finances, fewer decisions are easier, cheaper or more impactful than the move to ...
On any list of the world’s most translated books, you are likely to find the ... makes clear in her new biography, “The Brothers Grimm,” Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were far more than just ...
who also worked on Tom Brady’s “Little Golden Book Biography.” Order your copy for $5 here. With chapter titles like “A Rough-and-Tumble Childhood” and “A Second Chance,” the ...
Greenberg conducted hundreds of interviews for the biography, including with Lewis himself, and that work shows throughout the book. Greenberg sketches the familiar highlights of Lewis’ life ...
The man has written seventy-seven books, so some nod to brevity is required. Any published stories compiled within a larger collection will not be ranked singularly. That still leaves sixty-plus ...