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Are Shakespeare's fingerprints all over this – or not?University of Texas professor Douglas Bruster is claiming lines of 'The Spanish Tragedy' by Thomas Kyd were written by the Bard.
Harlequin moves further into the digital marketplaceHarlequin announces an e-book-only imprint, in addition to planning for many e-book originals through other imprints.
Ron Burgundy will write a memoirRon Burgundy will be the name behind a book titled 'Let Me Off at the Top: My Classy Life and Other Musings.' Ron Burgundy is Will Ferrell's alter ego in the 2004 film 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.'
'The Wizard of Oz' as ... a TV medical drama?CBS is reportedly developing L. Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz' as a medical drama set in New York.
'Harry Potter' new covers will grace trade paperback versions as of Aug. 27The new 'Harry Potter' covers, by artist and writer Kazu Kibuishi, were created to honor the 15th anniversary of the US publication of 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.'
Wattpad launches crowdsourcing section to support authorsThe writing website now encourages members to support the projects of authors, who pledge a fundraising goal to be met in one month.
Film adaptation of 'The Lost Child of Philomena Lee' stars Judi Dench, Steve CooganA movie adaptation of writer Martin Sixsmith's book stars Judi Dench as a woman looking for her long-lost son and Coogan as Sixsmith.
Kelly Clarkson, museum vie for Jane Austen ringKelly Clarkson bought a ring owned by Jane Austen at an auction. But British Austen-lovers are doing their best to keep this treasure on their side of the Atlantic.
Is assigned summer reading a bad idea?Many schools require students to read over the summer. Is this diminishing the joy of finding books and creating reluctant readers?
George R.R. Martin's Santa Fe movie theater opens for businessThe Jean Cocteau Cinema opened this past weekend with a showing of the movie 'Forbidden Planet.' Martin himself was in attendance.
'Harry Potter' celebration at Universal Orlando will include cast Q&As, wand lessons'A Celebration of Harry Potter' is scheduled for this January. Will it include a look at the new portion of the 'Wizarding World' park?
E-book trial: judge has suggestions for enforcing the guilty verdict against AppleA DOJ lawyer shot down the objections of publishers over suggested measures for Apple, while the judge involved in the e-book price fixing case offered a modified version of the DOJ proposal.
Barbara Mertz was the author of mystery novels under two pen namesBarbara Mertz wrote the popular Amelia Peabody series under the pen name of Elizabeth Peters and wrote other novels under the name Barbara Michaels. Barbara Mertz's writing career spanned more than four decades.
Publishers join Apple in objecting to proposed measures by the DOJFollowing the e-book price-fixing trial, the Department of Justice wants to impose measures on Apple, but publishers say they'll be the ones hurt by the rules.
Readers can turn Hamlet into a man of action'To Be Or Not To Be: That Is The Adventure' by Ryan North allows readers to redirect 'Hamlet'.
New Stieg Larsson short story will be included in a crime anthologyA story said to have been written by Larsson when he was 17 will be part of an anthology titled 'A Darker Shade of Sweden,' which will be released this February.
Ethan Hawke said to be starring in Shakespeare's 'Cymbeline'Hawke previously starred in the 2000 modern-day adaptation of 'Hamlet.'
'Kill Your Darlings,' a chronicle of the Beat writers, gets a new trailer'Darlings' stars Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg and 'Boardwalk Empire' actor Jack Huston as Jack Kerouac, among others.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's 'Alice' series ends this OctoberNaylor has released 28 books in the series, and the last will take Alice from college through several decades of her later life.
A 'Hunger Games' camp tries to avoid violence despite its source materialA camp in Florida based on the 'Games' novels has children 'collecting lives' by taking others' flags. One psychologist called the idea 'unthinkable.'
