Jessica Alba is temporarily depriving cinephiles of her films to take on a new role: author (her first book, The Honest Life: Living Naturally and True to You is now available for sale). The mother of two daughters, Honor and ... More

"So a Hollywood star and a Zen teacher walk into a room together....." It sounds like the setup of a joke, but that phrase is actually a description of the team behind the new book The Dude and The Zen Master, ... More

  Your new autobiography, Hitmaker: The Man and His Music, due out on January 29, details your time as an influential talent manager and record company executive. Why did you decide to write this ... More

What's a fashionista to do? The September issues of magazines have come and gone, and New York Fashion Week won’t kick off again until February 7. Still, she—or he—now has some good options to receive one's RDA of chic. Grace, the memoir by Vogue magazine’s creative director Grace Coddington, was released ... More

As anyone who's cracked open The Corrections or Freedom knows, finishing one of Jonathan Franzen’s books takes a major investment of time. But beginning Oct. 21, there’ll be a brand-new addition to the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author’s oeuvre that people can digest in a mere 75 minutes. That's when House For ... More

Novelist/journalist Tom Wolfe has never met a sentence he couldn't apply his literary jazz hands to and liven up with sound effects or italics or extend into a dizzy page-spanning thought sponge that expands and grows and swells and and grows and expands and.....(now this writer is doing it ... More

Our minds are packed with preconceived notions when we look at any object, no matter how ordinary; we can’t help it. Artist Wolfgang Tillmans wants to change that. In the recently published Taschen book Neue Welt (“New World”), Tillmans’ ... More