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Son recounts his father's struggle in new Holocaust memoir

Friday, 21 August 2015, 14:58 Last update: about 12 years ago

Holocaust memoirs published in the decades following the Nazi genocide of Europe's Jews serve as gripping and historically necessary evidence to unimaginable personal suffering. However, few such...

Fetty Wap, year's top newcomer, dominates in both rap, pop

Thursday, 20 August 2015, 16:34 Last update: about 12 years ago

Fetty Wap has had a lot of success without the release of an album: The rapper-singer is enjoying another week with two songs in the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (a third track sits in the...

'Diary of a Teenage Girl' is strikingly intimate

Thursday, 20 August 2015, 15:31 Last update: about 12 years ago

In "Diary of a Teenage Girl," a bell-bottomed California 15-year-old girl comes of age in 1970s San Francisco. She documents the transition she's been craving, narrating into a tape recorder her eager...

Barclay delivers gripping story in 'Broken Promise'

Thursday, 20 August 2015, 14:56 Last update: about 12 years ago

Linwood Barclay returns to the small town of Promise Falls for his latest novel, "Broken Promise," bringing back several characters and delivering another gripping tale. In this story, journalist...

Band releases album of songs inspired by American Civil War

Wednesday, 19 August 2015, 16:33 Last update: about 12 years ago

Granville Automatic, a band with roots in Atlanta, is releasing its collection of songs inspired by Civil War battles, part of a related project to film videos of the songs on battlefields in the...

'Mistress America' charms with slick dialogue

Wednesday, 19 August 2015, 15:36 Last update: about 12 years ago

The first year of college is an anxious time for anybody. The predictable framework of high school falls away, and a teenager who lived with her parents is suddenly a free-range semi-adult with her...

Badlands' is intriguing stand-alone novel from C.J. Box

Wednesday, 19 August 2015, 14:55 Last update: about 12 years ago

The new Wild West, in which a hamlet becomes a boomtown because of its oil-rich fields, makes a sturdy background for C.J. Box's intriguing new stand-alone novel. Taking another break from his...

Acts find unique ways to sell music, reach fans on Twitter

Tuesday, 18 August 2015, 16:30 Last update: about 12 years ago

From Kanye West to Taylor Swift to Rihanna, more and more musicians are debuting audio, photo and video content on Twitter to boost marketing efforts without spending big bucks. The social...

A dialogue between Eisenberg and Segel on idols and fame

Tuesday, 18 August 2015, 15:30 Last update: about 12 years ago

One, acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, is at the peak of his success. The other, fellow writer David Lipsky, isn't unsuccessful, but idly longs for Wallace's talent and fame while on assignment...

Al Roker's 'The Storm of the Century' dives into 1900 storm

Tuesday, 18 August 2015, 14:54 Last update: about 12 years ago

Al Roker's new book, "The Storm of the Century," reads like a blockbuster movie script, but the "Today" show weatherman said the drama, heartache and strife of the Great Hurricane of 1900 that hit...

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