Taylor Lautner

I’ve overheard teen-agers in my backseat having more intelligent conversation than you hear in two hours of “New Moon.” And if they were as depressed as Bella and Edward, I would send them to the emergency room, not Florida (as…

When former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks at the College of the Ozarks next month, the media are not invited.

A spokeswoman for the school says keeping the media out was part of Palin’s contract for her Dec. 2 speech.

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Albert Pujols will attend a book signing in support of Deidre Pujols’ calendar/cookbook, “In the Pujols Kitchen,” a spokeswoman for Barnes and Noble bookstore in Chesterfield says.

Singer Andy Williams tried to smooth ruffled feathers in an interview on  “Good Morning America” to promote his memoir “Moon River and Me,” which went on sale today (Oct. 13).

A couple of weeks ago the Branson theater owner was quoted in…

Sen. Kit Bond said at a book signing that his new book isn’t for “rednecks,” a video at Politico.com shows.

The site headline says “Bond: My Book’s Not ‘for Rednecks.’” But if you watch the video it’s pretty clear that the…

An author who studies lying says in his new book that people tell the most lies while communicating through e-mail.

For anyone who spends even five minutes a day online, this conclusion may seem obvious. But in “The Liar in Your…

Bob Gibson will sign his book “Sixty Feet, Six Inches” on Tuesday at Barnes & Noble in West County. Read an interview I did with Gibson, and Steve Weinberg’s review of the book, in this Sunday’s A&E section of the Post-Dispatch.

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Entertainment Weekly’s EW.com has an interesting item today. The upshot is that a book publisher originally was to print a quotation from President Barack Obama on a book jacket, but then thought better of it. After all, the president’s comment wasn’t meant…

William Golding, who wrote “Lord of the Flies” and received a Nobel Prize for literature, admitted in unpublished writings that at 18 he tried to rape a 15-year-old girl.

The disclosure is part of a shocking story in the London Times…

John McGuire

Longtime Post-Dispatch reporter John McGuire died Tuesday. He had worked at the newspaper for 30 some years, taking a buyout in 2005. John was a friend to everyone and I was privileged to know him when he worked in the…