Forget sex, but not the city. What concerns everyone in Candace Bushnell's new novel, "One Fifth Avenue," is real estate. ...more

October 12, 2008

"Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It," by Julia Keller (Viking, $25.95) ...more

September 28, 2008

The newspaper industry is constantly bewailing its need for a new economic model, as the Internet upends the old one. Maybe it could take a page from the Club Penguin Times. ...more

September 15, 2008

When Susan Geier remembers her father, Mel Finkelstein, he is always with his camera. Finkelstein carried it not only for work as a photojournalist but also at home and on family outings. He had an insatiable hunger to record all of life, in both its minutiae and grandeur. ...more

September 6, 2008

Monkey outbreak in Tokyo. As a responsible media organization, we owe it to the public to provide up-to-the-minute monkey news. You're the city editor, so tell me, who do we have to put on this story?" ...more

August 24, 2008

A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Plant City native has written a lengthy article for The New Yorker magazine on the Florida Strawberry Festival queen's pageant. Headlined "The Strawberry Girls," the article by Anne Hull hit the newsstands Monday. ...more

August 7, 2008

The late David Halberstam wrote 21 books during his career, covering a broad cross-section of society: politics, history, social change - and sports. ...more

August 6, 2008

but hinting that he's not finished with television. ...more

July 22, 2008

"August: Osage County," Tracy Letts' scabrous tale of a dysfunctional Oklahoma family, was named best play Sunday at the 2008 Tony Awards ceremony, picking up two acting prizes as well as an award for direction. ...more

June 16, 2008

Marjorie Kinnan's Rawlings' old typewriter still sits on a table on her screened-in porch, and her wood-frame house looks much like it did when she died 55 years ago. ...more

February 22, 2008