Juan Villoro, one of Mexico’s most decorated and esteemed writers, also happens to be a leading soccer analyst, extracting lessons about society and life from the game.
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The prizes, for writers in the early stages of their careers, come with a $50,000 award.
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The lawyer Harry M. Brittenham, who has represented many of Hollywood’s most powerful executives and companies, is about to publish his latest graphic novel, “Shifter.”
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Mr. Clancy’s books were successfully transformed into blockbuster Hollywood films, including “Patriot Games,” “The Hunt for Red October” and “Clear and Present Danger.”
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Next year, the Man Booker Prize will be open to any work originally written in English and published in Britain, bringing concerns that American novels will dominate.
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A novel praised for its dramatic depiction of Southern life in the mid-1850s became a best seller, but its tantalizing secret — the author’s identity — may have been solved.
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With vacationing readers less inclined to read hard news in the summer, French newspapers and magazines have left some of the news behind in favor of far more creative writing.
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A documentary and book on the reclusive author say that he instructed his estate to publish at least five more books beginning as soon as 2015.
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The writer Evgeny Morozov has quickly become the most prominent critic of the utopian promises coming from Silicon Valley.
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Two top magazine writers, both of whom have optioned their nonfiction articles for movies, are starting a platform to enable other writers to do so as well.
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The author Ken Auletta tries to keep his weekends relatively stress-free, with the possible exception of preparing to manage a softball team made up of writers.
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The movie “2 Guns,” adapted from the comic books from Boom Studios, opens this week. Thanks to Boom’s “creator share” model, both the publisher and comic’s writer reap benefits.
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J. K. Rowling, of Harry Potter fame, shared a bit of the back story of her new book, written as Robert Galbraith.
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Like Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion before her, Meg Wolitzer spent the summer as a guest editor at Mademoiselle. A look back at a time both heady with promise and tinged with the sadness of an era about to end.
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The Writers Guild of America reported a 6 percent drop in total earnings from movie writing, to about $343 million. TV writing nudged up, to roughly $1 billion.
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James Agee’s unpublished 1936 article for Fortune about Alabama sharecroppers is being released on Tuesday as a book, “Cotton Tenants: Three Families,” with Walker Evans photos.
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Mr. Johnson was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, television commentator and author who spent most of his career at The Washington Post and won wide acclaim for his coverage of the capital.
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And not caring what Elton John says about any of it.
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Paul Finebaum, the radio host known for his popular college football show, will reportedly start his new job Aug. 1.
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Rhonda Glenn, who literally wrote the book on women’s golf, retired last week after nearly 50 years as a journalist and an employee of the United States Golf Association.
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