Pages tagged “book release”

Michael Moorcock Set to Write Dr. Who Novel

Influential fantasy novelist Michael Moorcock told the world via his online forum that he will pen the next Dr. Who novel, which will continue the book series that began in the mid-1960s....  read more

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HBO, The Wire Producers to Adapt Rolling Stone Writer's Appetite for Self-Destruction

Producers of The Wire will soon focus on the downfalls and digital downloads characterizing today’s music industry....  read more

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Bruce Springsteen's Autobiography Worth as Much as $10 Million

Most 60-something men can barely get their own grandchildren to listen to their stories. But Bruce Springsteen isn’t your average old dude. For his life story, which he’s currently turning into an autobiography, he could get up to $10 million, reports the New York Post’s Keith Kelly....  read more

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New Leonard Cohen Biography Coming in December

You know you’ve made it big when there are two official biographies written about you. So congrats, Leonard Cohen, welcome to the big boy’s club. The second Cohen biography, called Hallelujah: A New Biography and to be released on Dec. 1, will chronicle both Cohen’s origins as a singer-songwriter and his recent resurgence as a sort-of indie godfather....  read more

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Broken Social Scene Member Releases Children's Book, Learn to Speak Music

While Rockabye Baby aims to develop a child’s taste for music, Broken Social Scene’s John Crossingham wants to teach them precisely what to do with it....  read more

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Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore to Become Book Publisher in 2010

When Paste last caught up with Thurston Moore, the 51-year-old rocker mused that curating art shows, contributing to film projects and running record label Ecstatic Peace! was not enough for him to do, let alone lead Sonic Youth....  read more

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A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh Book Sees Sequel After Eight Decades

Before Winnie the Pooh was produced as an icon in a plethora of Disney movies, cartoons and colorful picture books, he was drawn in the illustrations of E.H. Shepard as a rather English, rural and naked bear who lived in the Hundred Acre Wood, the setting of the children's tales penned by A.A. Milne in his 1928 book, The House at Pooh Corner....  read more

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Writer Walker Lamond is Ready to Share Rules for My Unborn Son

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As the past few years have taught us, there's serious money to be made in turning a much-hyped blog into a book (see: Stuff White People Like). Or, you know, at least a shot at converting internet fame into real-life notoriety. And writer/documentarian/renaissance man Walker Lamond aims to do just that by cribbing the choicest morsels from his Rules for My Unborn Son blog and compiling them into a book bearing the same name, due out Oct. 27....  read more

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Authorized, Illustrated Stooges Book Hits Shelves

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The music of The Stooges has long inspired fans to engage in many a destructive act: throw a fit, break things, crush beer cans, send your pretty face to hell. You know, general rock 'n' rollisms. But how about sitting down with a book? Iggy and company sure hope so—the band's most comprehensive biography, The Stooges: The Authorized and Illustrated Story, has just hit shelves....  read more

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Six of Fergie's Children's Books Head to the Big Screen

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, has reported to British newspaper The Daily Mail that she has signed a multi-picture deal with an undisclosed major U.S. film company. The company will turn six of her children's books into Hollywood films....  read more

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