Tycoon stories and Darwin books get National Book Award nominations

NEW YORK — The subjects of this year’s National Book Award nominees were better known than the authors.

French culture minister denies paying boys for sex amid calls for his resignation

PARIS — France’s culture minister denied Thursday paying boys for sex, in an impassioned response to critics on the right and left demanding that he resign over a candid book recounting encounters with male prostitutes in Thailand.

Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller wins 2009 Nobel literature prize

STOCKHOLM — Herta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism’s collapse.

Anti-prostitution group files lawsuit in Mexico to keep Garcia Marquez book off the big screen

Group sues in Mexico to stop Garcia Marquez movie

A Love Story? Skeptics remain, but Michael Moore has loyal following in GOP-leaning Mich. town

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Seated on a platform in a blocked-off street, the founder of the Traverse City Film Festival grinned as Mayor Michael Estes hailed him for boosting the local economy and cultural scene — “with almost no government assistance!”

‘Pulp Fiction’ screenwriter gets a year in jail for fatal DUI crash in Southern California

VENTURA, Calif. — An Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Pulp Fiction” has been sentenced to a year in jail for causing a fatal traffic crash in Southern California.

Documentary on Ellsberg, leaker of Pentagon Papers, told as political thriller, love story

LOS ANGELES — Four decades after he stunned the nation by leaking the top-secret Pentagon Papers study of the Vietnam War, Daniel Ellsberg walks the halls of the past in his dreams.

Dissecting the facts in Michael Moore’s new film ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’

NEW YORK — Despite the title of his new movie, Michael Moore really hates capitalism. He says it’s a scheme for businesses to profit at the expense of the little guy.

ALL BUSINESS: Dissecting the facts in Michael Moore’s new film ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’

NEW YORK — Despite the title of his new movie, Michael Moore really hates capitalism. He says it’s a scheme for businesses to profit at the expense of the little guy.

At the Movies: capsule reviews of ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ and other films this week

Capsule reviews of films opening this week:

Filmmaker Michael Moore screens his likely controversial ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ in Mich.

BELLAIRE, Mich. — Filmmaker Michael Moore gave residents of his adopted Michigan community an early showing of his new documentary on Saturday and urged them to help overthrow an economic system he said was beyond redemption.

Movie Review: Showmanship is Michael Moore’s chief commodity in ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’

LOS ANGELES — How do you make a movie about the country’s current economic crisis and actually get people to see it?

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Appeals judges question lawyers over Salinger spinoff book; one calls it ‘rather dismal’

NEW YORK — Federal appeals court judges had plenty of questions Thursday about a Swedish author’s so-far unsuccessful attempt to publish a book in the United States that was once promoted as a sequel to J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye.”

‘Pulp Fiction’ screenwriter pleads guilty to DUI, manslaughter for deadly 2008 car crash

VENTURA, Calif. — An Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Pulp Fiction” has pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving for a crash that killed a passenger in his Mercedes.

Now in paperback: a dictionary of the world according to Fidel

HAVANA —Cubans accustomed to hourslong speeches, thousand-word essays and lengthy interviews can now get Fidel Castro at a glance, thanks to a new dictionary of El Comandante’s teachings.

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