FORBES: The James Frey Redemption Train

from Forbes The James Frey Redemption Train Rolls On With “I Am Number Four” Writer James Frey suffered one of the most humiliating smack downs of all time when it turned out parts of his hit memoir, A Million Little Pieces, were fabricated.Oprah had...

Arthur Penn Gone

from NY Daily News Arthur Penn, ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ director and pioneer of cinematic violence, dies at 88 in New York BY JOE NEUMAIER DAILY NEWS FILM CRITIC Anonymous Arthur Penn is shown during the filming of “Target.” Penn, a myth-maker and...

A Renegade History of the United States

from Shelf Awareness Shelf Starter: A Renegade History of the United States A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell (Free Press, $27, 9781416571063/141657106X, September 28, 2010) This is a new story. When American history was first written, it...