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South China Morning Post, many of those arrested had been posting stories on the Taiwanese-based fiction website Haitang Culture. They have been charged with producing, selling, or disseminating pornographic materials.Users of the website can make money from tips or subscriptions from fans, with one of the most popular genres being danmei — a style focusing on gay romance and sex, which originated in Japanese manga and has become popular in China.While officers in Anhui province have been carrying out the crackdown, they have reportedly been investigating and detaining people from other provinces, leading some to question whether the police are abusing their power.Earlier this month, the news outlet Shuiping Jiyuan reported that police in Anhui have detained more than 50 writers — primarily women in their 20s — from across China since June.

Chrissy Metz, best known for playing Kate Pearson on the NBC drama “This Is Us,” recently ditched Hollywood after 21 years.“I moved to Nashville,” the actress, 44, revealed to People in an interview published Friday.“I was in LA for 21 years, but my family is in Florida, where I’m from, and during the pandemic, I could drive to them from here. It’s just a better quality of life here,” Metz explained. “Everything is 15 minutes away, and it’s just so much less stress.”“There’s a lot going on,” she continued.

Jessica Alba — the problem is that you haven’t had a chance to de-stress.“Anxiety tends to build up because people carry it on from their day, and they sleep with it, and then they wake up the next day and they really weren’t able to get enough sleep, and the anxieties of the day before follow them over the next day, and it kind of snowballs,” he told The Post.And the busier you are, the more you need to practice — as he calls it — the “nighttime anxiety detox.” “A lot of times, people say, ‘I don’t have time to do much,'” he said. “To me, it’s reversed.

the controversy between “It Ends With Us” stars Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively.“Well, I can’t retire now because now I’m gonna be in the hole by 5 p.m.,” she shared. “Even if you hate me, you should go buy a piece because it’s a very, kind of, bad thing.

Prince Harry made his royal exit in 2020 alongside his wife, older palace staff accused the prince of becoming “a tree-hugging lefty” who was “rejecting the values and traditions of his family.” Many of his childhood pals reportedly shared this sentiment.The claim was made by royal author Tom Quinn, who has written a new book, “Yes Ma’am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants.” Quinn spoke to hundreds of former and current palace staff members to learn what it’s like to watch over the House of Windsor.Fox News Digital reached out to Archewell, which represents the offices of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, for comment. A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace previously told Fox News Digital, “We don’t comment on such books.”“Meghan was blamed for… making Harry ‘too woke,’” Quinn claimed to Fox News Digital.

her account last month.But Hoover’s profile no longer features any pictures of the film adaptation’s stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, who are currently suing each other.Hoover also deleted any traces of last year’s “It Ends With Us” promotional tour that used to be on her account.Hoover fled Instagram in January after the start of Lively and Baldoni’s hostile legal battle. The actors played the lead roles in the adaptation of Hoover’s 2016 best-selling novel.

64-year-old author of “The Sandman” comic book series and novel “American Gods” was responding to a New York Magazine article that detailed allegations of assault, abuse and coercion leveled by eight women.The allegations of four of them had been broadcast in July in a Tortoise Media podcast.Gaiman said he had watched stories about him circulate on the Internet for months with “horror and dismay.”“As I read through this latest collection of accounts, there are moments I half-recognize and moments I don’t, descriptions of things that happened sitting beside things that emphatically did not happen. I’m far from a perfect person, but I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone.

Bill Simmons in 2016 — in Netflix’s new docuseries “Starting 5.”“I kind of just chuckle,” James said in the series, which premiered last month. “That is a number that I will not disclose, but, more importantly, I think it’s just the time.”The four-time NBA champion spends hours each day on his biohacking routine, which includes cryotherapy, red light therapy, hyperbaric chamber time, a mid-day nap and a high-carb, low-sugar diet.The Post consulted Dave Asprey, an entrepreneur and author known as “the father of biohacking,” on James’ full-court press regimen — and what, exactly, that supposed $1.5 million is doing.“LeBron focuses a lot on recovery, which is crucial if you want to perform at your full power and live a long time,” Asprey said.

Low-Hanging Fruit: Sparkling Whines, Champagne Problems, and Pressing Issues from My Gay Agenda (St. Martin’s Press, $28), the comedian whose scorchingly satirical, magnificently crafted YouTube videos set the internet ablaze whenever a new one drops, presents his case for taking on the highest office of the land. It’s one chapter nestled in a book filled with tremendous wit, bitchy zing, and wildly zany observations from a satirist who has become this generation’s Tom Lehrer.“It’s not a memoir,” Rainbow says of the book during a recent chat.

according to Newsday.DeMille died of Stage 4 esophageal cancer on Tuesday. Born in Long Island, DeMille was known for his suspense and action novels, such as “Plum Island,” “The Charm School” and “The General’s Daughter,” which was adapted into a 1999 movie starring John Travolta. In a March 2000 interview, the prolific author told January Magazine, “It wasn’t a bad movie.

Mick Jagger’s partner of 10 years — with the promise ring to prove it — former prima ballerina Melanie Hamrick choreographed the rock ballet “Porte Rouge” that was inspired by the music of the Rolling Stones.But despite their decade-long pas de deux, Hamrick — who retired from the American Ballet Theatre after 15 years in 2019 — doesn’t give Jagger any notes on his legendary moves. “Nah — he’s an expert, he’s got it down,” Hamrick, 37, told The Post.

New York Times.The Post has reached out to Pascal’s agent.Pascal was born on May 13, 1932 in Manhattan and raised in Queens. She studied journalism at New York University and then worked as a freelance writer for online websites.Her first young adult novel, “Hangin’ Out With Cici,” was published in 1977 and adapted into a TV special, called “My Mother Was Never a Kid.”Pascal and her husband, John Pascal, also wrote scripts for the soap opera “The Young Marrieds.”In 1983, she published the first book in the “Sweet Valley High” series, which follows identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield who live in a fictional suburb in Los Angeles.She previously spoke to Entertainment Weekly about how she was inspired to write the book series. “A friend of mine had lunch with a [book] editor, a man, who said, ‘Why isn’t there a ‘Dallas’ for young people?’ I thought about it, and I actually had a book [proposal] due.

the “Bridgerton” books that the hit Netflix series is based on, said that she’s surprised by the “hugeness” of the show’s success. “I never thought it was going to flop, because I knew what incredible production values were going into it…And I knew that it was something that lots of people wanted and wasn’t out there.

U.S. novelist and screenwriter Paul Auster died of complications from lung cancer at his home in Brooklyn on Tuesday evening aged 77, the New York Times reported, citing friend and author Jacki Lyden.The New Jersey-born writer was known for a string of acclaimed works including “The New York Trilogy” and “The Book of Illusions”.“We are very sad to hear of the death of Booker Prize shortlistee Paul Auster, whose work touched readers and influenced writers all over the world, and whose generosity was felt in just as many quarters,” the Booker Prizes posted on social media platform X.The literary body shortlisted his book “4 3 2 1” for its award in 2017.The author of more than 30 books, including poetry and memoirs, told Reuters in 2011 he liked to write by hand in notebooks and then produce the finished copy on a typewriter rather than a computer.“I feel more alive when I’m working,” he said.“I am convinced that writing is a kind of illness.

“Babar” author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father’s popular picture book series about an elephant-king and presided over its rise to a global, multimedia franchise, has died. He was 98.De Brunhoff, a Paris native who moved to the U.S.

While filming “The Blues Brothers” in 1979, John Belushi was partying so hard that he was often unable to function.One night, after yet another Belushi delay, director John Landis knocked on the door of his trailer, fed up.“Inside, John sat disheveled, eyes vacant. Atop a desk sat a mound of cocaine,” writes Daniel de Visé in his new book, “The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic,” (Atlantic Monthly Press, March 19).“ ‘John, you’re killing yourself,’ Landis cried. ‘Do not do this to my movie.

The Terrifying Realm of the Possible: Nearly True Stories.““The bookstores canceled because of protester intimidation,” Gelman, who portrayed Murray Bauman on the Netflix hit, told The Post. “I didn’t get a lot of specifics … [but] I definitely believe it’s because of my vocal support of Israel and because of the fact that I’m Jewish.

Taylor Swift knows a thing or two about being catnip.Indeed, the pop superstar worked all of her flirtatious feline wiles as Bombalurina in “Cats,” the much-maligned 2019 movie adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical.But Swift had a different kind of kitty persuasion on “Argylle,” the upcoming spy thriller starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, John Cena, Samuel L. Jackson and more.Director Matthew Vaughn (“Kick-Ass,” “X-Men: First Class” and the “Kingsman” films) says that it was the “Anti-Hero” singer who was “responsible” for the scene-stealing Scottish Fold cat featured in the film, which hits theaters Feb. 2.It all started when Vaughn’s two daughters with his supermodel wife, Claudia Schiffer, convinced their mother to buy them a Scottish Fold for Christmas after seeing Swift’s cat in her 2020 “Miss Americana” documentary.

(Dey Street, out Tuesday) by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. The book tracks the meteoric rise of “Mean Girl,” which has become such a quotable pop culture mainstay that even Hilary Clinton used a “Why are you so obsessed with me” quip against Donald Trump a few years back.

“Naked: On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques” (Algonquin Books). She’s eaten cake naked for a Hieronymus Bosch-themed party, stripped for a biker convention in rural North Dakota, and accidentally electrocuted herself on stage. But her interactions — both in burlesque and in other sex-related work — gave her a unique insight into human psychology and led her to a career in mental health.

Sandra Bullock may have been busy with magic and spells on “Practical Magic,” but she did take time out of her busy schedule to do a selfless act.According to Alice Hoffman — the author of the 1995 novel of the same name — the Oscar winner reached out to her son when he was too sick to visit the set.“I don’t know how old he was at that time, but he was maybe 10 or 11. He couldn’t go on the set,” Hoffman, 71, recalls to the Post. “Sandra Bullock called him at the hotel and talked to him for an hour.