entertainment - "book"

The 42-year-old author began work on the worldwide best-selling stories about the boy wizard in 1990, but her mum Anne died before J.K. ? real name Joanne ? had the chance to tell her about them.

Today's the day, fanboys (and girls). San Diego Comic-Con, the world's biggest comic-book convention and pop-culture expo, opens tonight with an expected crowd of more than...

E! Online - Today's the day, fanboys (and girls). San Diego Comic-Con, the world's biggest comic-book convention and pop-culture expo, opens tonight with an expected crowd of more than 120,000.

HOWARD STERN says that CBS 3 should apologize to Alycia Lane and give her back her job.On his Sirius Satellite Radio show yesterday, Stern, a friend of Lane's boyfriend, Chris Booker, formerly of Q102, said he used to think Lane was a bit nutty when she complained that she didn't understand how personal stuff about her was getting in the papers, but now he feels for her.

If Steve LeVine's aim in his new book, 'Putin's Labyrinth,' was to chill us to the marrow about post-communist Russia, he has succeeded.

He will produce and direct the comicbook adaptation for Universal.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -The Oakland Athletics' 16-year-old pitching prospect Michael Inoa of the Dominican Republic has ties to a sports bookie in his native country, according to a report. SI.com reported Tuesday that former catcher Edgar Mercedes o...

Lee Israel forged more than 400 letters from Noël Coward, Dorothy Parker and other literary celebrities, a criminal career she recounts in her book, 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?'

While WOMAD Charlton Park offers extra space for car parking this year, the festival organisers are encouraging festival-goers to travel by more environmentally sound ways and so have teamed up with First Great Western and National Express to offer the simplest and most convenient travel solutions. First Great Western offer a frequent service and value fares to the local rail stations at Chippenham and Kemble, and a frequent shuttle bus service will be operating between these stations and the Charlton Park site to make getting there even easier. For more information and to book, visit www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/womad. National Express will be running a special coach service from London Victoria and Bristol coach stations directly to the festival site. Connections can be made...

AP - 'My Sister, My Love' (Ecco. 562 pages. $25.95), by Joyce Carol Oates: Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest.