entertainment - "book"

OSCAR-winning actress Tatum O'Neal, a former child star who revealed her struggles with addiction in a 2004 book, has been arrested on suspicion of buying drugs on the streets of new york City.

AP - A computer spell-checker run amok christened several Pennsylvania high school students with new ? and in some cases unflattering ? last names.

The characters and the settings in Gas City are rife with intriguing promise that never seems delivered. The story seems one- two-dimensional, never fully realized. That's why I was unable to remember much of the book. There are a number of good scenes, but with so many quality novels out and about, including several by Estleman himself, these brief flashes of excellence are not sufficient to recommend the book.

June at Barnes & Noble is overflowing with music from jazz and Broadway, international cabaret stars and newcomers, and even several events built around books about music and naked men.

Illustrator Lynda Barry has questions: What is an image? Where is your imagination? What is an imaginary friend, and are there imaginary enemies? Can you have thoughts without language? Barry grapples with these ideas and more in her new book of collages, What It Is.

WALDORF, Md., June 2 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- There's a new erotica writer on the block - U'nyque - and she's making her presence known in a newly-released, triple XXX-rated book, 'Up the Street, Down the Block & 'Round the Corner' (ISBN: 978-1-4196-8863-8). The novel is now available at Baker & Taylor, Abebooks.co.uk, and Amazon.com.

Take a look at the latest video from this upcoming comic book adaptation.

Author Margot Livesay writes books about complicated subjects. Her latest, The House On Fortune Street, is divided into four parts, telling interlocking pieces of the same story.

N.M. Kelby. Shaye Areheart Books. 291 pages. $23.

Music Reviews: There is undoubtedly no one more qualified to pose the musical question, 'Did the American Songbook Really End in 1965?' than Andrea Marcovicci. The glamorous diva of consummate grace and wisdom hosted a diverse program of song that suggested the songbook deserved an addenda to the pages that boast the legacies of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, the Gershwins and those other notable composers and lyricists who graced the first half of the last century.