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U.S. Department of Defense and United Airlines conduct study and find the risk of exposure to coronavirus on commercial airlines is virtually nonexistent; Fox News correspondent Bryan Llenas reports. A onetime flight attendant who conjured fictional nightmares during breaks on cross country red-eyes has a 7-figure deal for two novels. The Simon & Schuster imprint Avid Reader Press announced Thursday that T.J. Newmans first book, the thriller "Falling," comes out in July. The narrative is a horr...

Former flight attendant lands 7-figure deal for 2 novels By HILLEL ITALIEFebruary 4, 2021 GMT This combination of photos shows the cover of "Falling," a novel by T.J. Newman, left, and a portrait of Newman. A former bookseller and flight attendant who conjured fictional nightmares during breaks on cross country red-eyes has a 7-figure deal for two novels. The Simon & Schuster imprint Avid Reader announced Thursday that Newman’s first book, the thriller “Falling,” comes out in July. (Avid ...

The Geography of Bliss, The Geography of Genius, and the spiritual memoir Man Seeks God, the bestselling author discovered a surprising truth. “Before, I was racing through life, trying to accomplish as much as humanly, or super-humanly, possible,” Weiner says. “Rarely did I stop and ask ‘why? To what end?’ I now question assumptions, especially my own, on a regular basis. This makes life trickier in some ways, but also richer and, in the end, more meaningful.” The importance of sl...

Former GE CEO Immelt promises unvarnished interrogation in new book Alexander Soule FacebookTwitterEmail Jeffrey Immelt in November 2008 while CEO of General Electric, in New York City. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)Mark Lennihan / AP Former General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt is publishing a memoir of his 16 years leading General Electric, with the onetime New Canaan resident having moved the conglomerate’s headquarters in 2016 to Boston from Fairfield, while selling off large chunks of Norwalk...

How many friends do we really need to be happy? On my quest for more meaningful friendships, I took a hard look at the people in my life. Then things got a little weird. By Billy Baker Globe Staff,Updated January 6, 2021, 10:53 a.m. Email to a Friend john s. dykes for the boston globe I removed some artwork from a wall in my office at home, got a fresh Sharpie and a stack of Post-it notes, and started writing down names. I began by picking through the contacts in my phone, then scrolled throug...

While theaters are shut down around the world, theater reporter and columnist Michael Riedel arrives to fill the void with the kind of reporter and backstage gossip that made his years as a New York Post theater columnist so popular. Now working as a radio host with Len Berman on New York’s 710 WOR from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. weekdays, Riedel has just published “Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway,” his second book about a specific period of Broadway history. Published by Simon & Schu...

When COVID hit, I made a vow to read any book strongly recommended to me. Thats how I found myself simultaneously devouring Christie Tates well-written memoir GROUP: HOW ONE THERAPIST AND A CIRCLE OF STRANGERS SAVED MY LIFE (Avid Reader Press) and my favorite 2020 work of fiction, Charles Baxters THE SUN COLLECTIVE (Pantheon). Overachieving neurotic Tates revelations arent earth-shattering but give an honest, entertaining look at healing through opening up to strangers turned allies. Baxters ...

Dangerous art Dec 18, 2020 | New bio tells the life story of artist Tom of Finland and why his drawings are far more than erotica Tom of Finland: The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero by F. Valentine Hooven III, foreword by Jean-Paul Gaultier. (c.2020, Cernunnos, a division of Abrams). $50; 295 pages. Sometimes, you can’t worry about other people’s thoughts. You can listen to them, but you don’t have to hear them because there are days when making yourself happy supersedes any outside...