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<b>Stephen King Tops Banned-Books Lists as Classics Also Face Censorship Surge          </b>

Stephen King Tops Banned-Books Lists as Classics Also Face Censorship Surge

Books, NewsmakersOctober 9, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

Stephen King is currently the most frequently challenged author in U.S. schools and libraries, according to multiple recent reports, with more of his titles removed…

<b>Stephen King Tops List of Most Banned Authors in U.S. Libraries    </b>

Stephen King Tops List of Most Banned Authors in U.S. Libraries

Books, NewsmakersOctober 1, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

Stephen King’s name now appears more often than any other on book-ban rosters across public and school libraries in the United States. His works—ranging from…

<b><i>Alchemised</i> Turns Fan Legacy into Dark Fantasy Debut     </b>

Alchemised Turns Fan Legacy into Dark Fantasy Debut

Books, NewsmakersOctober 1, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

The novel Alchemised by SenLinYu is shaping up to be one of the most buzzed-about fantasy releases of the year. What began as a powerful,…

<b>Jennette McCurdy Trades Memoir Mayhem for Fiction With Debut Novel <i>Half His Age</i>    </b>

Jennette McCurdy Trades Memoir Mayhem for Fiction With Debut Novel Half His Age

BooksAugust 28, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

Meet Jennette McCurdy—the former Nickelodeon firecracker turned memoirist—now morphing into fiction’s next big thing with the announcement of her debut novel, Half His Age. And…

<b> <i>The Sisters</i>: A Scandalous Tale Worthy of Its Own Spotlight  </b>

The Sisters: A Scandalous Tale Worthy of Its Own Spotlight

BooksAugust 28, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

Few families in the last century have fascinated readers and historians quite like the Mitfords. Brilliant, brazen, contradictory, and often outrageous, the sisters at the…

<b>Keeley Hazell Turns the Page: Actress Releases a Memoir of Reinvention     </b>

Keeley Hazell Turns the Page: Actress Releases a Memoir of Reinvention

BooksAugust 27, 2025by The Hollywood Beat

Keeley Hazell’s memoir, Everyone’s Seen My Tits: Stories and Reflections from an Unlikely Feminist, is more than a collection of personal essays—it’s an act of…

<b>Greg Iles, Mississippi Novelist Who Penned the <i>Natchez Burning</i> Trilogy, Dies at 64   </b>

Greg Iles, Mississippi Novelist Who Penned the Natchez Burning Trilogy, Dies at 64

Books, NewsmakersAugust 16, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

Greg Iles, the Mississippi-born author whose sweeping Natchez Burning trilogy explored race, power, and buried secrets in the Deep South, has died at the age…

<b>Kid Cudi’s Memoir <i>Cudi: The Memoir</i> Offers a Raw, Unflinching Portrait of Reinvention   </b>

Kid Cudi’s Memoir Cudi: The Memoir Offers a Raw, Unflinching Portrait of Reinvention

BooksAugust 14, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

In Cudi: The Memoir, Kid Cudi delivers a raw and fearless account of a life lived at the intersection of fame, vulnerability, and survival. The…

<b>Pamela Skjolsvik & Tandy Culpepper Talk To Investigative Journo Rena Pederson About Her Nonfiction Dallas Jewel Thief Book<i>The King of Diamonds</i></b>

Pamela Skjolsvik & Tandy Culpepper Talk To Investigative Journo Rena Pederson About Her Nonfiction Dallas Jewel Thief BookThe King of Diamonds

BooksJuly 2, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

The King of Diamonds, a true-life tale, hronicles the audacious jewel-theft spree that shocked Dallas’s elite and stymied law enforcement from the late 1950s into…

<b>Tandy Culpepper Talks with Author Laurence Leamer about His Book <i>Capote’s Women</i> as well as the TV Adaptation <i>Capote vs. the Swans</i></b>

Tandy Culpepper Talks with Author Laurence Leamer about His Book Capote’s Women as well as the TV Adaptation Capote vs. the Swans

Books, TVJuly 2, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

Before Laurence Leamer became a best-selling author of nonfiction books, he wore many hats in widely divergent locales. Journalist in Iowa and at Newsweek. A…

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