NEW YORK – The John Lennon-Paul McCartney songwriting team broke up 40 years ago but their influence lives on in music, pop culture and now in two prominent new books about music.
Lennon is one of the five seminal artists who shape the backbone of "Corn Flakes With John Lennon," a memoir by Robert Hilburn, the [...]
It was a free afternoon in Munich that inspired John Graham-Cumming to begin compiling the Geek Atlas, a guide to the top sites to see when technology enthusiasts turn tourist.
While looking for somewhere to kill a few hours, he discovered Munich’s Deutsches Museum. It’s one of the world’s biggest science museums and the very fact [...]
The release of the latest version of the Kindle has many waxing poetic on the future of books in the digital age.
Scott Meyers, an independent author and consultant, examines the notion of cross-platforming in “Authoring Challenges in a Multiplatform World.” To the right we present a visual of one of his slides that depicts some [...]
Book information
On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, cognition and fiction by Brian Boyd
Published by: Belknap Press
Price: $35/£25.95
LIKE all the best stories, this one has a pleasing symmetry. It is a book in two parts, each illuminating the other. On one side stands evolutionary theory and its attempts to explain human nature. On the other is [...]
Star Wars story beats out Fallout 3, Tomb Raider, and more.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was honored this weekend by the Writers Guild of America, winning the 2009 award for videogame writing. Haden Blackman, Shawn Pitman, John Stafford and Cameron Suey from Lucasarts were credited for the accomplishment. The Force Unleashed managed to beat other [...]
Dave Bowman starts dismantling HAL 9000’s central core in the Discovery.
Courtesy MGM
SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t [...]
In Chapter 7 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Hermione is presented with a copy of a book called The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which Professor Dumbledore left her in his will.
(Yes, he’s dead. Sorry. Spoiler alert.) Because Hermione, like Harry, grew up in a Muggle family, she’s never heard of the Tales, [...]
Cast away on a desert island, surviving on what nature alone can provide, praying for rescue but fearing the sight of a boat on the horizon. These are the imaginative creations of Daniel Defoe in his famous novel Robinson Crusoe. Yet the story is believed to be based on the real-life experience of sailor Alexander [...]
Aravind Adiga has won this year’s Man Booker Prize with his debut novel The White Tiger.
The 33-year-old Indian-born writer was also the youngest author on the shortlist for the £50,000 prize.
He wrote "the kind of book I’d like to read", he told the BBC. "I like books that have ideas in them and that move [...]
US pop sensation Miley Cyrus has finished writing a book of her life at the age of 15.
The star of hit TV show Hannah Montana was reportedly paid a seven-figure sum to tell her "inspiring story".
The daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus has also said she wants to return to the show for a [...]
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