Oates, Groff among contributors to book on Thoreau legacy

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorHipgnosis Songs has acquired Big Deal Music Group and brought board its senior staff, with Kenny MacPherson becoming CEO of Hipgnosis Songs Group and reporting directly to founder and CEO Merck Mercuriadis. He is joined by Co-Presidents Casey Robison and Jamie Cerreta and Executive Vice President Dave Ayers (New York) as well as Senior Vice President Pete Robinson (Nashville) all of whom have signed new five-year contracts, according to the announcement.

Eli Countryman AMC’s “The Walking Dead” universe, BBC America’s “Doctor Who” and Hulu’s upcoming Marvel series “Helstrom” are among the first wave of panels announced for this year’s fully virtual New York Comic Con.Each panel will take place between Oct. 8 and Oct.

NEW YORK -- Elena Ferrante, James McBride and Isabel Wilkerson are among the nominees for the Kirkus Prize, a $50,000 honor for the best fiction, nonfiction and children's books.The nominees, six each in the three categories, were chosen by panels of writers, critics, booksellers and librarians.

Whoopi Goldberg has said she “lost everything” after she made jokes about President George W Bush in 2004.

Bronx Times.It wasn’t clear if Williams had any signs of trauma to her body, or if she was clothed, and police were unable to immediately determine whether she had been killed or died of other causes, reports NBC New York.The medical examiner’s office will conduct an autopsy to determine how she died.Williams had previously been reported missing by a friend, who had received a call from Williams saying she was going to the beach. But Williams never returned to her Harlem neighborhood.

three new “Power” spinoffs back in February, titled “Power Book III: Raising Kanan,” “Power Book IV: Influence,”  and “Power Book V: Force.” The spinoffs have since been reordered, with “Influence” now set as “Power Book V.”“Force” will center on Egan after he “cuts ties and puts New York in his rearview mirror for good,” according to Starz.Also Read: Riley Gale, Power Trip Lead Singer, Dies at 34Produced by Lionsgate Television, the “Power” universe comes from creator, writer and executive

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerExcepts have appeared from the new book Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady, written by her former best friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff.The tell-all comes out September 1 via Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books imprint.

similar state guidelines issued in June.Also Read: Nearly Half of US Movie Theaters Will Be Open This Weekend Even Without New York, CaliforniaAccording to the state’s county status tracker, the counties that can reopen indoor theaters with these modifications include Alpine (minimal), Calaveras (substantial), Del Norte (moderate), El Dorado (substantial), Humboldt (moderate), Lake (substantial), Lassen (substantial), Mariposa (moderate), Modoc (minimal), Mono (moderate), Napa (substantial),

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAny time Eddie Shapiro, president and CEO of international real estate firm Nest Seekers International, has the opportunity to put his company’s listings and brand in front of millions of viewers across the world, he says he wants to take it.After having employees on such shows as Bravo’s “Million Dollar Listing New York,” the firm is now taking center stage in Netflix’s “Million Dollar Beach House.” The new streaming series is six episodes featuring

NEW YORK -- The author and educator Kleaver Cruz has traveled the world asking the same question: “What does Black joy mean to you?” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media announced Monday that Cruz has adapted his “Black Joy Project" into a book of the same name. “Black Joy Project,” which does not yet have a release date, will combine images and essays into what Cruz has called the vital use of joy as a path to resistance.

Peter White Television EditorMany of the late-night shows have started to return to the studio following the COVID-19 production shutdown.However, Samantha Bee outlined her show’s own challenges with returning to its New York studio.TBS’ Full Frontal With Samantha Bee shoots in the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street in New York – the same studio that HBO’s Last Week Tonight and Showtime’s Desus & Mero shoot in.Since March, the show has been filming from Bee’s house in the woods in upstate

wrote Jacobin magazine editor David Sirota on Twitter.“Is it called ‘Nursing Home Death Count?'” asked conservative commentator Dana Loesch, referring to Cuomo’s March order that recovering coronavirus patients be put in nursing homes and barred those homes from requiring incoming patients to be tested.“How the hell is New York Governor Andrew Cuomo releasing a book in October about his pandemic response when NYC is still shut down & he literally turned nursing homes into grandma death

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorCrown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, announced Tuesday it’s putting out a new book by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo this fall on the pol’s experience dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.American Crisis, Leadership Lessons From The COVID-19 Pandemic will hit on Oct. 13, three weeks before the presidential election.

One iconic character will not be returning for The Matrix 4 – Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus.