Blake Lively's appearance in the upcoming adaptation of a best-selling Australian novel is uncertain. The Gossip Girl star, 37, had been attached to the proposed film based on Australian author Liane Moriarty's thriller The Husband's Secret since 2017. In 2017, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Lively would be playing the lead character in an adaptation of the popular 2013 novel …
Bestselling novelist Paul Auster, author of 'The New York Trilogy,' dies at 77 Enlarge this image toggle caption Nicholas Roberts/AFP via Getty Images Nicholas Roberts/AFP via Getty Images Best-selling author Paul Auster, whose novels addressed existential questions of identity, language, and literature and created mysteries that raised more questions than they answered, has died. A leading figure in his generation …
They are quirky characters in quirky stories, depicted with an affectionate detachment. On this occasion, the show's eminence grise, the legendary German critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki, argued with his colleague Sigrid Löffler about Haruki Murakami's novel "South of the Border, West of the Sun," causing a media scandal. The point of contention was the book's sex scenes, which Löffler called "speechless, …