Latest in Books

Anthony Holden, whose chronicles of the Royal Family’s troubles caused him to be referred to once as “The Most Reviled Man in Britain,” died on Oct. 7 at his home in London. He was 76 and had a brain tumor, his son Ben said. A gossip columnist for the Sunday Times in London, Holden wrote a biography…

Henry Winkler, now 77, has recounted his struggles with reading his lines on his hit 1970s sitcom Happy Days because of his dyslexia. In an excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Being Henry: The Fonz… and Beyond, Winkler wrote that he was “so f—ing angry” when he was diagnosed at age 31, when he was…

Rock Brynner, who escaped the shadow of his iconic actor father Yul Brynner to launch a multifaceted career, died Oct. 13 in Salisbury, Connecticut. He was 76 and was in hospice battling complications of multiple myeloma, according to family friend Maria Cuomo Cole. Like many children of major…

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment 360 has signed Inkitt, a data-driven publisher dedicated to discovering the world’s best storytellers, for representation across film and television. The goal will be to help Inkitt move closer to realizing its vision of building an even more formidable next-gen media…

Conor McPherson, the five-time Tony nominee behind the plays Girl From the North Country and The Seafarer, has been set to adapt into a straight play the first novel and film of Suzanne Collins’ trilogy The Hunger Games. It will mark the franchise’s first-ever live stage adaptation, and a fall 2024 debut…

Amazon MGM Studios is adapting Marisa Meltzer’s New York Times bestselling book Glossy, an expose on the success of beauty brand Glossier and its founder Emily Weiss, for television. The project is in early development; a search for a showrunner is underway, Deadline hears. Sources tell Deadline the…

What do you do after you've spent 13 years as a senior comms exec at NBCUniversal? Write a book, obviously. Traci Saulsberry, who was most recently SVP, Communications for Peacock, has signed with a literary agent and is prepping her own tome. Saulsberry, who worked on shows such as Bel Air, Girl…

What does it take to heal while you’re still surrounded by the descendants of those who committed a century-old communal betrayal? The vibrant, thriving Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma had set up an economy so strong and affluent that it was called Black Wall Street. That was until it posed a threat…

Will Smith has responded for the first time to Jada Pinkett Smith’s revelations in her new memoir, Worthy, which she is heavily promoting in the media and is out on Tuesday. Smith sent The New York Times an email saying the book’s revelations "kind of woke [him] up." He said that Pinkett Smith was…

LeVar Burton, the longtime host of PBS’ Reading Rainbow and current host of the LeVar Burton Reads podcast, has been selected to host next month’s National Book Awards ceremony in New York City, replacing the previously named – and subsequently dropped – Drew Barrymore. "LeVar Burton has introduced…

Britney Spears has tapped five-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams to narrate her upcoming memoir The Woman in Me. Spears will read the introduction and Williams will read the remainder of the audiobook. “This book has been a labor of love and all the emotions that come with it," Spears said in…

"Here's the funny thing, I was talking to a director a few months ago, and I mentioned that I was I’ve been reading and thinking about King Lear, says Sir Patrick Stewart of his possible future career plans "And he said, Yes, yes, of course. But, you know, Patrick, you’re a little too old. Okay. Well…