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Friday, January 25, 2019
"13 Reasons Why" Author Sues You Tried To Ruin My Career W/ False Claims Of Sexual Harassment
Sunday, June 24, 2018
DJ Flume"s Totally Dating Best-Selling Author Kelly Oxford
Nick Jonas ain’t the only one dating up … add DJ Flume — one of the hottest EDM artists in the world — to the list because the 26-year-old is now dating 40-year-old and best-selling author, Kelly Oxford!! Sources tell TMZ … Flume and…
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Tom Wolfe Dies; Pioneering Author and Journalist Was 88
Sad news from the world of literature today, as a true giant of American letters has passed away.
Author and journalist Tom Wolfe died of complications from pneumonia in a New York hospital last night at the age of 87.
His passing was confirmed this morning by his longtime agent, Lynn Nesbitt.
Wolfe’s contributions to the literary landscape of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s cannot be overstated.
With trailblazing works such as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Right Stuff, Wolfe helped to usher in the so-called “New Journalism” that helped to define the American counterculture of the late 20th century.
With bestselling novels such as Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man In Full, Wolfe demonstrated an inimitable for using fiction to address the shifting values and social trends of an era.
Wolfe’s unique voice proved tremendously influential, not only in its era but across generations.
His impact can be seen in the work of such literary and journalistic luminaries as Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Hunter S. Thompson.
“He is not just an American icon, but he had a huge international literary reputation,” Nesbit in a statement issued this morning.
“All the same, he was one of the most modest and kindest people I have ever met. I never exchanged a cross word with him in our many years of working together.”
Though his pride in his southern roots remained a constant throughout his life, Wolfe became a fixture on the New York social scene shortly after earning his PhD in American studies from Yale.
With his lanky frame and signature white suits, Wolfe cut an unmistakable figure at Manhattan’s most elite social events.
Within minutes of when news of his death went public, Wolfe’s name became the top trending topic on Twitter.
Tens of thousands of tributes from friends, fans, and literary peers have poured in from all over the world.
Wolfe was often a controversial figure during his decades in the public eye.
And even today, there are those who are addressing some of his more divisive views in unflattering fashion.
But no one is denying that the man knew how to craft a sentence – or make a bold fashion statement.
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
E-40 Sues Author of "Captain Save a Hoe" Book
Look up in the sky — it’s a bird, it’s a plane … oh wait, it’s E-40 suing someone over Captain Save a Hoe, mayne! 40 Water just filed suit against author Erika Kane and her publishers for a book she recently started selling, which is titled…
Friday, May 26, 2017
Denis Johnson Dies; Beloved Author Was 67
Denis Johnson, the acclaimed author best known for such contemporary classics as Jesus’ Son, Angels, Tree of Smoke, and Train Dreams, has passed away at the age of 67.
Widely regarded as one of the top literary talents of his generation, Johnson deftly transformed the images and sensations of his troubled early life into searing and inimitable works of fiction and poetry.
News of his death was confirmed this morning by Jonathan Galassi, president of publishing house Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
“Denis was one of the great writers of his generation,” Galassi said in a statement issued today.
“He wrote prose with the imaginative concentration and empathy of the poet he was.”
Born in Munich, Germany in 1949, but raised primarily in the US, Johnson endured several tumultuous years as a drifter and addict before sobering up and focusing on his passion for the written word.
In 1984, earned an MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, where he studied under such literary icons as Raymond Carver.
Not long after leaving the program, the prolific Johnson began churning out distinctive poetry and short stories that quickly made his name a sort of byword for underground literary cool.
Johnson won the National Book Award in 2012 for his sprawling Vietnam epic Tree of Smoke.
The book was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, as was Johnson’s 2012 novella, Train Dreams.
But it’s the short story collection Jesus’ Son for which Johnson will likely be best remembered.
With a title taken from the infamous Lou Reed song “Heroin”, the book delves deep into the lives of dissolute junkies and transients – men and women living lives not unlike Johnson’s in his young adulthood.
The collection was adapted into an acclaimed 1999 film starring Billy Crudup, Jack Black, and Denis Leary.
In 2006, Jesus’ Son was cited by The New York Times as one of the most important literary works of the past 25 years.
Within minutes of the news of his death Johnson’s name became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter due to a deluge of tributes from friends, fans and the many fellow writers on whom his work served as a profound influence.
Johnson is survived by three children.
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Barack Obama Didn"t Date Black Women Until Michelle, Author Says (VIDEO)
Barack Obama seriously dated several women before meeting Michelle, and none of them were African-American, according to the author of one of the definitive books about the former president. Christopher Andersen, who wrote “Barack and…
Thursday, March 30, 2017
"Black Jesus" was My Idea, Claims Author Suing Adult Swim
“Black Jesus” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim is an impostor of the original black Jesus — the one created by an author in 1999 (not the Bethlehem one) … according to a new suit. New York author Saint Solomon says “Black Jesus” — the live…
Monday, March 13, 2017
Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Beloved Children"s Book Author, Dies
Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a popular’s children’s book author whose recent New York Times essay about her husband went viral, died Monday morning from ovarian cancer.
She was 51 years old.
Rosenthal’s passing was confirmed by her longtime literary agent and friend, Amy Rennert, who told The Associated press of Amy:
“Everything Amy did was life and love affirming.
“She was such a bright light with a great sense of wonder. Amy loved her family. She loved words, ideas, connections.”
Earlier this month, Rosenthal (who was diagnosed with the disease that would take her life in 2015) made headlines for encouraging other women to date her husband, Jason, after she passed away.
We’re serious.
She penned a beautiful, emotional story for The New York Times’ “Modern Love” column titled “You May Want to Marry My Husband.”
In the piece, Rosenthal created a poignant “dating profile” for her husband, whom she said she fell in love with in “one day.”
The author felt so strongly about Jason that she wanted to share him with others; both in her essay and, in theory, with another woman some day down the line.
“He is a sharp dresser. Our young adult sons, Justin and Miles, often borrow his clothes,” Amy wrote in one section of the article.
“Those who know him – or just happen to glance down at the gap between his dress slacks and dress shoes – know that he has a flair for fabulous socks. He is fit and enjoys keeping in shape.”
Rosenthal made millions of people tear up by outlining various specific details about her husband, going on about all the ways he’s made her happy over the years.
And admitting that she knows she doesn’t have much time left with him or with her three kids, Paris, Justin and Miles.
“I want more time with Jason. I want more time with my children. I want more time sipping martinis at the Green Mill Jazz Club on Thursday nights,” she wrote, adding:
“But that is not going to happen. I probably have only a few days left being a person on this planet.”
WMAQ-TV reported on Monday that Rosenthal was in hospice.
Last month, she wrote about her health on Instagram, making it clear in her final post that things were taking a downward turn.
“This cancer – oh, did I mention I have cancer? – has increasingly (and rudely) robbed me of my normal energy and focus,” she wrote on February 1, explaining that she had to stop her latest project because of her condition.
“There are other things I need to be tending to, creating, and focusing on with my limited time.”
In the essay that went viral, Amy called Jason “an easy man to fall in love with.”
She described him as an “absolutely wonderful father” to their three children and she added:
“Did I mention that he is incredibly handsome? I’m going to miss looking at that face of his.”
Jason and Amy were married for 26 years.
“I didn’t know exactly what she was composing,” Jason said in a statement released regarding The New York Times article.
“But I was with her as she labored through this process and I can tell you that writing the story was no easy task.
“When I read her words for the first time, I was shocked at the beauty, slightly surprised at the incredible prose given her condition and, of course, emotionally ripped apart. “
In a nod to his late wife and the marriage they shared, Jason concluded:
“I don’t have the same aptitude for the written word. But if I did, I can assure you that my tale would be about the most epic love story… ours.”
Amazing, heartwrenching stuff all around.
May Amy Krouse Rosenthal rest in peace.
Friday, March 3, 2017
Terminally Ill Children"s Author Seeks New Wife for Husband in Heartbreaking Essay
Hope you’re ready for a good, long cry, because it’s coming your way fast.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal, if you’re not familiar with her work, is a bestselling author. She’s written several children’s books, but she’s also written a couple of memoirs.
But her latest work could very possibly be her last work, and that’s because Amy has ovarian cancer and isn’t expected to live very much longer.
The work in question is an essay written for the New York Times titled “You May Want to Marry My Husband.”
Because this woman has been married for over two decades, and she is such an unbelievable gem that she’s spending some of her last moments looking out for her husband.
See what we mean about the crying?
“I have been trying to write this for a while,” she begins, “but the morphine and lack of juicy cheeseburgers (what has it been now, five weeks without real food?) have drained my energy and interfered with whatever prose prowess remains.”
“Still,” she writes, “I have to stick with it, because I’m facing a deadline, in this case, a pressing one. I need to say this (and say it right) while I have a) your attention, and b) a pulse.”
Amy says that she’s married to “the most extraordinary man,” and while they’ve been married for 26 years, “I was planning on at least another 26 together.”
She then explains that on the same day their third and youngest child left for college, she and her husband went to the emergency room for what they thought was appendicitis but what turned out to be ovarian cancer.
“So many plans instantly went poof,” she writes — no international adventures with her husband or her parents, no writers’ residencies.
“This is when we entered what I came to think of as Plan ‘Be,"” she continues, “existing only in the present. As for the future, allow me to introduce you to the gentleman of this article, Jason Brian Rosenthal.”
Yep, so let’s kick the heartache up a notch.
Amy writes that her husband Jason is “an easy man to fall in love with,” and she knows because she did it in one day — on a blind date when they were 24 years old.
Though she’s never been on any dating sites, she takes a stab at creating a dating profile for Jason — she calls him a “sharp dresser” with “a flair for fabulous socks,” she says that he’s “uncannily handy” and “man, can he cook.”
She says he’s a wonderful father to their three children, and that “he showed up at our first pregnancy ultrasound with flowers.”
She then goes into a story about how she had a contest in which her fans could submit ideas to her for matching tattoos, and whichever submission she picked, she would get that tattoo with that person.
In the end, she chose a simple tattoo: the word more. Her reader picked it because she’d once written it was the first word she ever said as a child, but now it has deeper meaning.
“I want more time with Jason,” she says. “I want more time with my children. I want more time sipping martinis at the Green Mill Jazz Club on Thursday nights.”
“But that is not going to happen. I probably have only a few days left being a person on this planet. So why am I doing this?”
She explains “I am wrapping this up on Valentine’s Day, and the most genuine, none-vase-oriented gift I can hope for is that the right person reads this, finds Jason, and another love story begins.”
“I’ll leave this intentional space below as a way of giving you two the fresh start you deserve.”
After that blank space, she closed her essay by writing “With all my love, Amy.”
What a woman. What a wife. What an incredibly thoughtful, selfless human being.
And now for those tears …
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat Pray Love Author Leaves Husband For Best Friend
We did not see this one coming.
Elizabeth Gilbert, she who has been blessed by Oprah and inspired every girl in her 20’s to customize an Eat Pray Love vacation of their own, has followed her happiness and fallen in love with her best friend, Rayya Elias.
Back in July, Gilbert confirmed that she and husband Jose Nunes – whom she famously met in Bali during the “Love” section of her best-selling book, Eat Pray Love – were separating.
At the time, Gilbert chose not to reveal the reasons behind the couple’s split, but today the world-famous author wrote a note to her fans on Facebook, admitting that she has fallen for Elias, who was diagnosed with cancer this past spring.
Dear Ones – There is something I wish to tell you today — something which I hope and trust you will receive with grace. This spring, I received news that would change my life forever. My best friend Rayya Elias was diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer — a disease for which there is no cure.
In the moment I first learned of Rayya’s diagnosis, a trap door opened at the bottom of my heart (a trap door I didn’t even know was there) and my entire existence fell straight through that door.
From that moment forward, everything became about HER. I cancelled everything in my life that could be cancelled, and I went straight to her side, where I have been ever since.
Something happened to my heart and mind in the days and weeks following Rayya’s diagnosis. Death — or the prospect of death — has a way of clearing away everything that is not real, and in that space of stark and utter realness, I was faced with this truth: I do not merely love Rayya; I am in love with Rayya. And I have no more time for denying that truth.
The thought of someday sitting in a hospital room with her, holding her hand and watching her slide away, without ever having let her (or myself!) know the extent of my true feelings for her…well, that thought was unthinkable. Here is the thing about truth: Once you see it, you cannot un-see it.
So that truth, once it came to my heart’s attention, could not be ignored. But what to do with this potentially life-shattering truth?
Now let me tell you something I’ve learned from Rayya, over the fifteen years of our friendship. She is the most brave and honest person I know, and she has taught me more about courage and honesty than anyone I have ever met.
Here is her mantra on truth, which I’ve heard her express so many times over the years, in so many difficult situations: “The truth has legs; it always stands. When everything else in the room has blown up or dissolved away, the only thing left standing will always be the truth. Since that’s where you’re gonna end up anyway, you might as well just start there.”
So. Here is where we stand now: Rayya and I are together. I love her, and she loves me. I’m walking through this cancer journey with her, not only as her friend, but as her partner. I am exactly where I need to be — the only place I can be.
Gilbert gently encouraged her fans not to send tips/stories/remedies for Elias’ cancer, because they have been overwhelmed by information in the past months.
Instead, Gilbert requested that people send “whatever extra love” that’s being carried around in their hearts.
“It will be felt,” she wrote. “And it will help. We will resonate with it, and we will thank you for it.”
Friday, July 1, 2016
Was Brittany Murphy Murdered? Author of Shocking New Tell-All Talks to THG
Last week, we reported on new details about the sad final days of Brittany Murphy.
The information about the scene of the 32-year-old actress’ death and the nature of her strange relationship with husband Simon Monjack comes courtesy of a shocking new tell-all, A Case For Murder: Brittany Murphy Files, by author Brynn Curt James Hammond.
Hammond spoke with us recently about the public fascination and ongoing mysteries surrounding Murphy’s death:
THG: What drew you to the case of Brittany Murphy?
Hammond: “I had the chance to interview her on two occasions and found her a delight, but on the second occasion she seemed to have lost her spark, leaving me wondering why and what the hell happened,” Hammond says of
“Then jump to December 20, morning, I was at my desk with deadlines looming and I heard the press reports she had died, and I was dumbstruck. I went back and watched some of her early work and it reignited my fascination with her.
“Over the years I always wanted to put pen to paper and celebrate her life in some way and this led to the book.”
THG: What’s the number one thing you’d like people to know about Ms. Murphy’s life and her final days?
Hammond: “I guess I’d like people to know that above anything else she was a huge ball of talent and if you eradicate some of her final films she was a force to be reckoned with.
“The girl had some serious talent and it’s just sad that due to certain behavior and choices she made in her later years people have forgotten that.
“She wasn’t in a good place and she really needed someone to take her under there wing and say, ‘Hey, you need to cut your ties with Monjack, ditch your mom and hire a decent agent and press team.’
“Murphy had the talent and she just needed a new support network to bring her head above water and away from the piranhas. I believe she would still be here today if that had happened.
THG: You open the book with a reminder of how far Murphy’s star had fallen at the time of her passing. How big of a role do you think her declining popularity played in her death?
Hammond: “I don’t think her career played any part in her physical death. Her career didn’t kill her or allow her to become unresponsive before anyone dialed 911.
“Her career was dried up but she wasn’t. We have all seen stars who have hit rock bottom; Natasha Lyonne for example, but she’s back on top and has a healthy output of movies.
“America loves a comeback star and I believe with a bit of hard work and some damage control Brittany could have been Hollywood’s golden girl again.
“You only have to see Across the Hall, what a fantastic movie and what a great performance she turns in. She still had it in her.”
THG: You’re critical of the way Murphy’s murder was handled by the press. Do you think tabloid culture has gotten better or worse in the years since her passing?
Hammond: “I wouldn’t say I was critical, more realistic. It played a part in her career decline and no sooner she was in the ground she had been forgotten, which I found very sad.
“However, I understand it’s the industry, and journalists nowadays have more than one person to compete with to get their pay check.
“I don’t think the press industry has changed, so to speak. I feel the stories are more ‘out there’ but then the stars are doing more bizarre things so they stay in the headlines for longer.
“Out of sight, out of mind as they say, and I highlight that in my book … We are in a disposable age.”
A Case For Murder: Brittany Murphy Files is available now on Amazon and other retailers.
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Jim Harrison Dies; Legends of the Fall Author Was 78
Jim Harrison- the acclaimed American author best known for his 1979 novella Legends of the Fall – has passed away at the age of 78.
According to a statement from his publicist, Harrison died Son aturday afternoon at his home in Patagonia, Arizona.
No cause of death was given.
Though it was Harrison’s work in Hollywood that garnered the most attention, his career as a poet and novelist has made him a towering figure in the literary world since he first began publishing back in the ’70s.
The proud native of rural Michigan won over generations of readers with his humorous, semi-autobiographical Brown Dog series – six novellas focusing on the misadventures of a boozy, lusty title character who brings to mind Hemingway with a sense of humor or a thinking man’s Bukowski.
Harrison’s food writing, as well as his reputation as a man’s man with a passion for the back-to-the-land living, made him a favorite of celebrity chefs such as Anthony Bourdain (who dined with the author on one of his TV series) and Mario Batali (a frequent duck hunting partner).
Like so many writers before him, Harrison reluctantly turned to Hollywood in the later years of his career.
After the movie adaptation of Fall proved to be a box office success (and the breakthrough project for a young actor named Brad Pitt), Harrison worked on several other films, including the 1994 Jack Nicholson-Mike Nichols collaboration Wolf, for which he wrote the screenplay.
Harrison’s wife of 54 years passed away in 2015. He is survived by his two daughters.
Friday, February 19, 2016
Harper Lee Dies; To Kill a Mockingbird Author Was 89
Harper Lee – the author best known for the iconic 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird – has passed away at the age of 89.
A county coroner confirmed today that Lee passed away at an assisted living facility in Monroeville – the small Alabama town that she called home throughout most of her life.
In addition to winning the Pulitzer Prize and serving as the basis of a classic film, To Kill a Mockingbird has become a perennial favorite in both classrooms and bookstores.
Astonishingly, 56 years after its publication, the book still sells over one million copies every year.
The book’s themes of racial injustice and the importance of aiding the oppressed have helped it remain continuously relevant – and widely beloved – throughout several generations.
Lee was a lifelong friend of author Truman Capote (the character of Dill in Mockingbird is based on a young Capote) and she assisted him in researching his famous “non-fiction novel” In Cold Blood.
Despite spending much of her life avoiding the spotlight, Lee made headlines last year with the news that a sequel to Mockingbird entitled Go Set a Watchman would be released several decades after it was penned.
The controversial novel became an instant bestseller.
Lee never married or had children, but she was fiercely beloved by the people of Monroeville – the tiny town that helped inspire one of the great literary works of the 20th Century.
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Look Back At Jackie Collins" Life And Career With Our 2011 Interview With The Best-Selling Author!
Don’t you miss her already?
After news broke late Saturday night that Jackie Collins died, we couldn’t help and look back at our interview with her several years ago, when she came in to Perez TV to discuss her book Goddess of Vengeance (above)!
She discusses everything from not going to college, to being on the best seller list, to getting banned from the nation of Australia in this wide-ranging interview.
Jackie Collins sure has had an incredible life and career — enjoy her words in the video here as another way to remember her!
Look Back At Jackie Collins" Life And Career With Our 2011 Interview With The Best-Selling Author!
Don’t you miss her already?
After news broke late Saturday night that Jackie Collins died, we couldn’t help and look back at our interview with her several years ago, when she came in to Perez TV to discuss her book Goddess of Vengeance (above)!
She discusses everything from not going to college, to being on the best seller list, to getting banned from the nation of Australia in this wide-ranging interview.
Jackie Collins sure has had an incredible life and career — enjoy her words in the video here as another way to remember her!
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