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Some of publishing’s most celebrated and enduring editors are leaving their posts at Penguin Random House after accepting buyout packages.

Departing employees include veteran editors who oversaw best sellers and prizewinning books by Anne Rice, Joan Didion and Amor Towles.

As UC Santa Cruz prepares for its spring 2023 Student Union Assembly (SUA) elections, a diverse group of candidates are vying for positions.Representing a broad range of academic backgrounds and

As Atlanta's first black mayor, he helped develop a bevy of BE 100s companies and created more black millionaires that any other public figure.

Like a Hollywood whodunit, FBI catch mystery man who conned publishers, authors and agents just to get a peek at books

Charles Simic, a renowned Serbian-American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for his poetry and whose translations contributed to the popularisation of Serbian literature in the US, died in his adopted homeland.

Simic often wrote about his World War II-era childhood in Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia. He moved to the U.S. in his teens. For the rest of his life he would look back on not merely his wartime childhood but on the circus of everyday life in Belgrade — but he embraced American life. He wrote verse like a man who had escaped a cruel fate and was determined not to waste a moment.

A Serbian-born American, he left the impression in his verse that he had “poked a hole into everyday life to reveal a glimpse of something endless.”

When Richard Byrd wasn’t directing a cross-country marijuana distribution operation, he was partying with some of the biggest names in sports and hip hop.

When Richard Byrd wasn’t directing a cross-country marijuana distribution operation, he was partying with some of the biggest names in sports and hip hop.