Friday, December 19, 2025

Books

Huge New Bob Dylan Book of Photos, Essays, Plus Updated Greatest Hits to Get Sneak Preview Friday in Hamptons

The massive new epic Bob Dylan project called "Mixing Up the Medicine" is getting a preview this Friday in the Hamptons. No one has yet...

Barbra Streisand’s Hotly Anticipated Memoir Cut Back to Less Than 1,000 Pages, But Not By Much

The biggest book release for the fall will be Barbra Streisand's hotly anticipated memoir. "My Name is Barbra" comes November 7th from PenguinRandometc and...

(Read) How Elon Musk Made a Human Relationship with Singer Grimes, Who Likes to Listen to An Hour of War History Before Bed

The great journalist Walter Isaacson has a big biography of Elom Musk coming out next month. It's called "Elon Musk," just to make things...

“Oppenheimer” Movie Success Pushes 2005 Paperback to Number 1, Hardcover Selling for $2,799 on Amazon — But No “Barbie” Book Tie-In

If you happened to buy and keep a copy of Kai Bird and MArtin Sherwin's "American Promotheus" back in 2005, you're in luck. First edition...

Random House Loses Dozens of Legacy Editors, Execs in a Corporate Buy Out/Lay Off Scheme that Guts the Company’s History

A culture Atomic bomb has gone off at Random House. You could call it Penguin Random House. But the venerable publishing's power is held in...

Pretty Saucy: Rolling Stone Mick Jagger Promotes Girlfriend Melanie Hamrick’s Debut Novel, “First Position” — She’s a Paperback Writer!

The Beatles have a famous song called "Paperback Writer." Now the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger has a girlfriend who actually IS a paperback writer. Melanie Hamrick,...

RIP Best Selling Mystery Author and Actress Carol Higgins Clark Dead at 66, Co-Authored Several Books with Her Mother

This is heartbreaking. Carol Higgins Clark, the best selling mystery author and actress in many of the films made from her and her mother's...

RIP Legendary Book Editor Robert Gottlieb, 92, Made His Career with “Catch-22,” Revered by Authors Ranging from John LeCarre to Lauren Bacall to Robert...

I am sad to hear that Robert Gottlieb -- Bob Gottlieb to those who knew him -- has died at age 92. He was...