Houghton Mifflin shedding consumer books for $349 million

NEW YORK -- Two books based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning “1619 Project” will be released this fall, with contributions from Jesmyn Ward, Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi, and dozens of others authors and journalists.“The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story” expands upon the New York Times Magazine publication from 2019 that centers the country's history around slavery and led to a Pulitzer for commentary for the project's creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones.

Cher is all about Christopher Meloni these days.

Cher is all about Christopher Meloni these days.

People are really into Christopher Meloni’s backside.

NEW YORK — One of the few copies of the comic book that introduced Superman to the world has sold for a super-sized, record-setting price.The issue of Action Comics #1 went for $3.25 million in a private sale, ComicConnect.com, an online auction and consignment company, announced Tuesday.It narrowly bested the previous record for the comic, set in the auction of another copy in 2014 for slightly over $3.2 million.The comic, published in 1938, “really is the beginning of the superhero genre,”

Allen Media Group’s This TV has inked a distribution deal with eight major-market ABC-owned TV station subchannels. The company’s newest broadcast network is currently in 86 million U.S. households.

NEW YORK -- The closing of physical libraries because of the pandemic has slowed but not stopped patrons and others from calling for books to be banned or restricted.On Monday, the American Library Association reported more than 270 challenges to books in 2020, from Toni Morrison's “The Bluest Eye” to Harper Lee's “To Kill a Mockingbird,” compared to 377 the year before.

The Weeknd has donated $1 million (£720,000) to hunger relief charities in Ethiopia, where government officials are “leading a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing”, according to an internal U. S.

The Weeknd is helping in a huge way.

Ellise Shafer administratorThe Weeknd is donating $1 million to hunger relief in Ethiopia amid the ongoing conflict between the government in Addis Ababa and the Tigray region.The conflict has resulted in the deaths of thousands and the displacement of more than two million people, according to NPR. Last month, the New York Times obtained an internal U.S.

“Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jen Shah has entered a plea of not guilty to charges of fraud and money laundering in relation to an alleged scam that possibly preyed on “hundreds” of victims.

LOS ANGELES -- The latest member of the “Law & Order” franchise has a familiar face playing a familiar character, but producer Dick Wolf says he’s switching up the storytelling.NBC’s “Law & Order: Organized Crime” stars Christopher Meloni as New York police detective Elliot Stabler, the role he played until 2011 on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”Unlike the largely self-contained episodes of its “Law & Order” relatives, the new drama shifts from one criminal syndicate to another in

Ryan Serhant, Fredrik Eklund, Steve Gold and Tyler Whitman as they navigate new businesses, working remotely and managing the needs of several high-profile clients.«Kirsten is a power broker. She's tough as nails,» Serhant says in the trailer.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNews Corp clinched a deal to acquire Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s books and media segment for $349 million in cash, planning to combine the publisher with its HarperCollins Publishers subsidiary.The Rupert Murdoch-controlled company said it expects the deal to close in the second quarter of calendar 2021, subject to to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals.The HMH Books & Media backlist of more than 7,000 titles include “The Lord of the

Bethenny Frankel is more than just a TV housewife. The former "Real Housewives of New York" star has become a household name not just for her several years as a full-time cast member on the Bravo series.

Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece that was kept hidden by a French family for more than 100 years now has a new home. The pricey painting, titled “A Street Scene in Montmartre,” sold Thursday during an auction livestreamed from Paris. It trafficked exorbitantly high phone and online bids from art enthusiasts in the French capital, as well as in New York and Hong Kong.Although Van Gogh’s freshly exhumed tour de force went for a little over $15 million, it initially fetched a staggering $16.47 million

NEW YORK -- An upcoming edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy will include paintings, drawings and other illustrations by the British author for the first time since it was published in the mid-1950s.Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media announced Thursday that the new version will come out Oct.