Sarah Palin appears well on her way to becoming a million-selling author. "Going Rogue" sold 700,000 copies -- a number that includes pre-orders -- in its first week of release, according to a publishing official close to the former Alaska governor. The official was not authorized to release the sales figure and asked not to be identified.By: Hillel Italie|Date: Nov 23, 2009

A novel set in the pre-digital world of 1970s New York City and a biography of one of the city's most famous sons are among this year's National Book Award winners.By: Hillel Italie|Date: Nov 19, 2009

Nader wrote the book (a novel!) on the super-rich WASHINGTON - Ralph Nader, the consumer activist and corporate scourge, is saying nice things about the kind of folks you’d expect him to despise.By: Hillel Italie|Date: Sep 21, 2009

Irving Kristol, the political writer and publisher known as the godfather of neoconservatism whose youthful radicalism evolved into an emphatic rejection of communism and the counterculture, died yesterday. He was 89.By: Hillel Italie|Date: Sep 19, 2009

NEW YORK - It sounds as surreal as an old Bob Dylan song: Pancho Villa playing center field for a 1930s team called the Boston Fords, taking on such rivals as the Pittsburgh Plymouths and the St. Louis Cadillacs.

But the history books and the record books will lead you nowhere. Villa never bothered with the big leagues, and the Fords and their fellow franchises were only legends, roaming the mythic ballparks of a young Jack Kerouac.

By: Hillel Italie, Associated Press|Date: Aug 22, 2001

NEW YORK -- The phone rings at Billy Wilder's office and the director himself answers. His voice is high and thin, laced with a clipped Viennese accent.

"Turning 85 means nothing," he shrugs, speaking from Beverly Hills. "I'm in good health. I feel the same as I did 20 years ago. Now turning 75 or 100 -- that's a milestone."

By: Hillel Italie, Associated Press|Date: Jun 16, 1991

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