What happened in the 1951 case of Henrietta Lacks, and could it happen again today? The story of the woman who unwittingly spurred a scientific bonanza made for a best-selling book in 2010. On Saturday, it returns in an HBO film with Oprah Winfrey portraying Lacks' daughter Deborah. Cells taken... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2017-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2' was Amazon's best-selling book of 2016 and was also the year's "most wished for" and "most gifted" book at the e-tailer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
An abridged version of Dan Brown's best-selling book The Da Vinci Code is to be published for young adults, his publisher announces. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author and writing coach William Zinsser, who penned the best-selling book On Writing Well, dies in New York, aged 92. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pupils from St Edmund Arrowsmith High School meet author Joseph Delaney and talk to him about his best-selling book The Spook's Apprentice which has just been made into a Hollywood film. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Adam Mansbach’s best-selling book, Go the F*** to Sleep, has become one of the few books in history to be translated into Jamaican Patois. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Over the past year, an increasingly central plank of conservative and Tea Party rhetoric is that constitutional change is needed and that the 17th Amendment in particular, which gives state residents the power to elect senators directly, should be repealed. (Previously, senators were selected by... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s an odd week when you follow up a review of a movie about a homophobe—Jean-Marc Vallée’s excellent Dallas Buyers Club—with a review of a movie by a homophobe, or, rather, based on a best-selling book by a very prominent one. Before the release of Ender’s Game, an adaptation by... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]