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HBO makes great TV from books

More and more popular books are becoming HBO series. Here are some of the most well-known.

'Occupy Wall Street': Why this revolution isn't made for TV

Supporters complain the mainstream media aren't keeping pace with 'Occupy Wall Street' protests. But the movement's complexity makes big-picture coverage difficult.

9 best books of August: Amazon editors' favorite picks

Some of this summer's most interesting books will pull at your heartstrings and pull you across time and space – from Beijing today to 1930s Manhattan to planet Earth in the year 2044. And that's just for starters. Here are nine of the August 2011 titles that are drawing the most enthusiastic thumbs-up from the editors at Amazon.com.

Michele Bachmann balks at Sarah Palin 'girl power'

Michele Bachmann says she's not a feminist. In an interview, the sole female GOP candidate for president doesn't talk about girl power the way Sarah Palin and Hilary Clinton have.

A Moment in the Sun

From John Sayles, a "sprawling, wide-screen, Technicolor" novel of the Spanish-American War.

Harry Potter: A chronology

As the world waits for the Nov. 19 release of Harry Potter film No. 7 ("Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" Part 1), it's fun to remember Harry as he's been revealed to us through the years.

Bed bugs: Lincoln Center is latest to confirm infestation in the most bed bug-infested city in America

The Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater has had to go dark after a confirmed bed bug infestation of a dressing room. New York is at the top of the list of most bed bug-infested cities.

Mainstream news media: not dead yet

To survive in the Digital Age, journalism needs to be simultaneously fast-paced and substantive, snarky and thought-provoking. Or, at the very least, it must find some middle ground where illuminating investigative pieces and Mel Gibson telephone call mash-ups can coexist.

Is today's fiction irrelevant?

The blogosphere debates: Are today's novels merely clever where they should be deep?

More US papers mull charging readers for online content

GlobalPost and the Fayetteville Observer are reportedly close to rolling out pay software called Press+.

Fictionalization of Hemingway's early years fetches huge advance

The Ayatollah Begs to Differ

The way to say those tricky VIP names

Mispronouncing them can be a grievous faux pas.