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Posted on July 24, 2009 with No Comments
Best-selling author E. Lynn Harris has died at the age of 54 during a West Coast book tour.
Harris, an openly gay writer, self-published his first novel “Invisible Life” in 1991, selling copies from the trunk of his car. He became known for his novels about young, urban professionals and the portrayal of black men living as closeted gay men or on the “down low”.
A graduate of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Harris was the school’s first black male cheerleader and the first black yearbook editor.
The Doubleday writer was promoting his eleventh novel, “Basketball Jones,” a story about a gay love affair with an NBA player. All of Harris’ previous novels including “Just As I Am” (1995), “And This Too Shall Pass” (1996), and “I Say a Little Prayer” (2006) have made it onto the New York Times bestseller list
Posted on June 24, 2009 with No Comments
Sports Illustrated swimsuit stunner and Maybelline spokesmodel Jessica White will become an authoress, writing her first novel.
While celebrating her 25th birthday on Monday, White revealed to New York’s Daily News that her foray into the world of literature will be autobiographical, specifically about a sexually abused young girl.
“I am all about empowering women to bounce back from being abused, because I was abused when I was younger,” she said, before adding that her untitled, yet scribed book will be a movie that will star her.
Posted on June 23, 2009 with 1 Comment
Blindie’s totally on Team Jacob. We love our Robert Pattinson, but putting Taylor Lautner’s biceps around little Kristen Stewart just makes us all warm and fuzzy inside.
Check out the latest book cover for the movie tie-in edition of New Moon, which features Lautner wrapping his arms around Stewart and Pattinson as an apparition in the moon!
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Category: Books, Kristen Stewart, New Moon, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
Posted on March 3, 2009 with No Comments
First Lady Michelle Obama has caused an uproar with her fashion sense–even her choice of sleeveless dresses ruled headlines last week.
And now the first lady’s trademark, contemporary, all-American style is being spun into a book–like a love letter to the style maven from the fashionistas who have (and hope!) to dress her.
“Our shining hope for the future!” says designer Isaac Mizrahi in the Michelle Obama style guide (due out May 5). But Glamour has a few pages from Michelle Style: Celebrating the First Lady of Fashion, which features sketches, interviews and style tips from fashion heavy-hitters like Carolina Herrera, Catherine Malandrino, Tommy Hilfiger, Behnaz Sarafpour, Isabel Toledo, and Jason Wu.
“Michelle Obama is a true independent,” explains Nicole Miller. “She isn’t locked into wearing couture or super expensive clothes.
Posted on February 5, 2009 with 1 Comment
If you’ve ever wanted to stand before Tyra Banks and her panel of photographers, stylists and retired models to receive life-changing advice and tips that will help you become a model or just be fierce like one then “America’s Next Top Model: Fierce Guide to Life” is the book for you.
Covering everything from “runway etiquette” to applying makeup, improving self-image, the business of modeling and really important things like how to look your best while wearing a crop top, “Fierce Guide to Life” is like Tyra mail and a season of ANTM rolled into one glossy book.
“Fierce Guide to Life” is due in stores in April.
Posted on February 4, 2009 with 2 Comments
King of Sci-Fi Stephen King has taken a bite out of Twilight author Stephenie Meyer’s skills as a writer and her vampire series.
Comparing Meyer to Harry Potter writer J.K. Rowling, King tells USA Today, “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
While he does blast Meyer’s lack of talent, he does say bad writers, if they have a good story, can still be “very, very successful.”
“It’s very clear that she’s writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books,” King says. “It’s exciting and it’s thrilling and it’s not particularly threatening because they’re not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that’s a shorthand for all the feelings that they’re not ready to deal with yet.”
Posted on January 28, 2009 with 1 Comment
From Rosario Dawson to Dakota Fanning, stars are coming out of the bat cave with their love for all things Twilight. The latest “Twilighter” is O.G. American Idol Kelly Clarkson.
Writing on her blog about her hot new single “My Life Would Suck Without You” (which is all we can hope for when it comes to Vintage Kelly), Clarkson tells fans, “Finished the Twilight books (so did my mom and sister) and we cannot wait for the next movie New Moon.”
“Do not judge us, we cannot help ourselves 
Now my sister and I are going to read a classic ‘The Divine Comedy’,” she adds. “Although, it’s a classic it doesn’t have Edward Cullen in it so I pray it holds my attention ha!”
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