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How Europe’s hunger for rare spices sent Magellan to a painful death
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoAboard Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage of 1519 to 1522, the greatest expedition of the Age of Discovery...
Keke Palmer's New Memoir, 'Master Of Me,' Explores Her Journey Back To Herself
Black Enterprise· 2 days agoGlobal entertainer Keke Palme will release her new book, Master of Me, November 19. The memoir ...
Amy Tan, author of ‘The Joy Luck Club,’ logs her obsession with birds in a new avian book of days -...
The Boston Globe· 4 days agoNotes on domestic concerns like live mealworms versus dead and the fraught passage of fledglings to adulthood are interspersed with Tan’s own sketches, from finely shaded, ...
‘I Haven’t Been In The Ocean Since’: Christian Slater Shares Experience Seeing Jaws At Five While...
CinemaBlend via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe fantasy series geared toward kids is based on the book series of the same name and has Slater...
Wait a minute, Bandai's latest anime game actually looks pretty good: a console and PC action-RPG...
GamesRadar+ via Yahoo News· 1 day agoUltimately, one decent-looking trailer isn't enough to resolve years worth of doubt regarding...
Don Juan Out of Hell
The Atlantic· 10 hours agoTwo other authors, far more similar to each other, were also born that year: Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov. Like that of the Argentinian writer Borges, the fame & ...
Writer Leonardo Padura chronicles life in Cuba as his detective 'alter ego' solves gripping crimes
Associated Press· 5 days agoFor the last four decades, Padura, 68, has managed to turn his series of detective thrillers into a...
New book tells mind-bending history of Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnics
Austin American-Statesman· 6 days agoIf you pick up one book about Texas this summer, let it be "Picnic: Willie Nelson Fourth of July...
Amy Tan on Jamaica Kincaid, 'Crazy Rich Asians,' and The Book on Her Nightstand
Elle via Yahoo News· 5 days agoWhether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh,...
How Nicholson Baker learned to paint, without the help of Bob Ross
Washington Post· 2 days agoNicholson Baker has already mastered one kind of art, writing books. In nonfiction books such as...
