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Coming soon: a horror story on American Fritzl’s victim?

London, Sept 20 (ANI): Publishers and Hollywood studios have begun a multi-million dollar bidding war for the rights to sex slave Jaycee Dugard’s horrifying life story.

Fresh details of the American Fritzl’s victim have emerged, including that in the early days of her captivity, the terrified schoolgirl was so hungry she ate bugs and worms in [...]

Jay-Z close to signing book deal

Washington, July 10 (ANI): American rap mogul artist Jay-Z is close to signing a deal to reveal the story behind his lyrics in a book.

Executives at Spiegel and Grau, an imprint of Random House publishers, are said to have approached the Big Pimpin’ hitmaker, famed for never writing down his song rhymes, with the [...]

‘Playboy’ wins rights to serialise Vladimir Nabokov’s novella

London, Jul 10 (ANI): Rights to the final work of late Russian-born American novelist, Vladimir Nabokov’s novella, which has stayed hidden for more than 30 years, has been won by Playboy magazine.

Playboy is to serialise the unfinished novella, ‘The Original of Laura’, and publish it this autumn in what has been widely described as the [...]

Justin Timberlake set to make golf hobby subject of book

New York, Jul 9 (ANI): American pop singer Justin Timberlake is said to be getting ready for his next venture – writing a book about golf.

Timberlake, 28, looks set to write the book as his literary agent David Vigliano has sent editors a short proposal by the singer [...]

Justin Timberlake to pen golf book

London, July 9 (IANS) Pop star Justin Timberlake is taking his love for golf to another level, as he plans to write a book on the sport.
The “Sexy back” singer has reportedly employed a literary agent to send out a short synopsis of the planned book, in the hope of securing a publishing deal, reports [...]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez denies he has stopped writing

Bogota, April 6 (EFE) Nobel literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez has denied reports that he had stopped writing, Colombia’s El Tiempo newspaper reported.
The newspaper reported Sunday that it asked the author of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ if it was true that he would not write again, as his literary agent, Carmen Balcells, had recently [...]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez won’t write any more

Santiago, April 3 (EFE) Literary agent Carmen Balcells said she doesn’t expect to see any more books from Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
‘I don’t think that Garcia Marquez will write anything else,’ said Barcells in an interview with the daily La Tercera in which she added that the Colombian writer represented 36.2 percent of her [...]