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Today in books and publishing: former Komen executive criticizes Planned Parenthood; Geoff Dyer on Joseph Conrad; Brooklyn Book Festival breaks record; comic strip entered in DoJ suit. Did Planned Parenthood have it in for Susan G. Komen? In her new...

George Gurley 1987-1989 The Observer is born. I was still in college. In the summer I interned at CV (Career Vision) magazine, which was started by my then-stepfather, Shelby Bryan, and Marian Salzman, the editor in chief. I fact-checked and interviewed...

The Texas Book Festival in Austin kicks off with the announcement of the $50,000 Kirkus Prizes, which go to C.E. Morgan’s The Sport of Kings (fiction), Susan Faludi’s In the Darkroom (nonfiction), and Jason Reynolds’ As Brave as You (children’s and teen...

Last year, I decided to put a little spin on things. Rather than list my own favorite reads of 2011, I reached out to a bunch of authors - all of them have appeared here on TNBBC in some way, shape, or form -  asking them to share with us their favorite...

When I started getting involved in travel writing in New York City, one name came up in conversation often: David Farley. He was a rock-star writer who taught at NYU and Columbia, wrote for AFAR, National Geographic,the New York Times, and many other...