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Allison Duncan from Vulture explores what is a beach read and why? I remember vividly receiving my first piece of real luggage at age 8: a massive duffel bag on wheels that was supposed to evoke Lindsay Lohan’s cool-girl character Hallie Parker in The Parent Trap, who carried a trendy, neon-yellow bag to camp and … Read more

Marc Cameron, a crime writer, reflects on his days as a US Marshal in Alaska: One of my early assignments as a deputy US marshal on the Alaska Fugitive Task Force was to hunt a man who had beheaded one of his roommates with a splitting maul. Our guy had fled into the surrounding woods, … Read more

Woody Allen Pitched a Memoir. Publishers Weren’t Interested. NY Times journalist, Alexandra Alter and Cara Buckley, find out why. Woody Allen has been largely shunned by Hollywood. Celebrities who once vied for roles in his films now say they regret working with him. Amazon has backed out of a multimovie distribution deal with him. Now, … Read more

Despite its late release on April 19, The Mueller Report, with additional reporting and information by the Washington Post, came in at #2 on Amazon bestseller list and #10 on the Apple Books bestseller list for the week ended April 21. The Mueller Report Kindle price: $7.99 “The Mueller report is that rare Washington tell-all … Read more

Gal Beckerman and Tina Jordan from the New York Times have collected some of the best book frauds from the last 100 years: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HOWARD HUGHES: Confessions of an Unhappy Billionaire by Clifford Irving Kindle price: $2.99 The hoax: Irving perpetrated one of the greatest literary frauds of the 20th century, though now largely … Read more