Books: Last News

wasn’t always peace and love.From late 1973 through 1974, Lennon embarked on his “Lost Weekend” in Los Angeles while being separated from his wife. Ono had banished the singer/songwriter from their home after he had had “loud, raucous sex” with another woman at a party.While Lennon was eager to return to Ono, she was wary about him coming home. That’s when she got by with a little help from an unlikely Beatle.“There was a time when Sir Paul McCartney offered Yoko his willingness to speak to John in Los Angeles about the separation,” the couple’s pal, Elliot Mintz, told Fox News Digital.

Stephen Graham Jones (S&S/Saga Press)Jones mixes historical fiction with vampire horror in this gripping tale of an American Indian vampire looking to avenge the deaths of more than 200 members of his tribe. Out nowTracy Chevalier (Viking)With “The Girl with a Pearl Earring,” Chevalier firmly established herself as a master of historical fiction.

Murals of New York City: The Best of New York’s Public Paintings from Bemelmans to Parrish” (Rizzoli, out now), told The Post.The 83-year-old, who put together the tome with photographer Joshua McHugh, is both an art scholar and artist himself.He worked on restoring the famous murals at Bemelmans Bar and Cafe Carlyle in the Hotel Carlyle, and he and his son, Austin, paint their own murals out of a space in Harlem, Palmer-Smith Studio.Here, he shares five murals and the surprising stories behind them. Look closely at the ceiling of the Neoclassical New York County Supreme Courthouse. Instead of a Roman holding a spear, there’s a naked blond lady with a mirror.

turned 30. The two have maintained a close relationship since.)Sheff notes that Lennon officially broke up the Beatles on September 20, 1969.

sent her boss Anthony Bourdain atext to check in. She and others close to the famed chef turned TV host were worried about him. He was shooting his CNN series “Parts Unknown” in Alsace, France, and photos of his adored girlfriend, Asia Argento, with another man had surfaced in the Daily Mail.Colleagues and mutual friends had reported to Woolever that things on set had grown tense.“Everyone was walking the tightrope, trying to give him both the emotional support he seemed to need and the space to process his pain with a measure of private dignity,” Woolever writes in her new memoir, “Care and Feeding,” (Ecco, out Tuesday).Despite his personal troubles, Bourdain was in planning mode for his return to New York.

“How to Write a Funny Speech . . .for a Wedding, Bar Mitzvah, Graduation & Every Other Event You Didn’t Want to Go to in the First Place,” is set to hit shelves on March 11.

according to The Numbers.The sci-fi action flick, based on the Marvel Comics character, is the fourth installment — and the worst, according to The Post — in the “Captain America” film series.Taking second was “The Monkey,” which The Post deemed a “poor man’s ‘Chucky’” that “isn’t scary or funny,” with sales of $5 million. The comedy horror, starring Theo James of “Divergent” fame and based on a 1980 short story by Stephen King, was released on Friday.

Sarah Harman (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)When wealthy 10-year-old brat Alfie Risby goes missing, the prime suspect is the kid he bullies: Dylan Grimes. Dylan’s mom, Florence, is a single party girl with no tangible skills or mom friends, but she’s got to pull it together to clear her kid’s name.

Grand Poobah of “SNL,” wasn’t pleased by its “mawkish righteousness,” writes Susan Morrison in her new book “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,” out now.As Michaels’ longtime friend, singer/songwriter Randy Newman, told the author, “Lorne’s got a real old-fashioned, 1930s hard-­boiled antenna for that kind of liberal bullshit.” It didn’t help that alumni Chris Rock, who came to early rehearsals to watch with Michaels, turned to the producer and asked, “Where are the jokes?”Rock joined host Dave Chappelle for the first scene after the Hillary/“Hallelujah” requiem, in which they played the only Black people (and the least surprised by Trump’s win) at a party of white millennials gathered to watch the election returns. When one stunned attendee declares, “This is the most shameful thing America has ever done,” both Chappelle and Rock burst out laughing.

“Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old,” the 59-year-old actress explained why she defended herself against the “Top Gun” star, 62, when he publicly shamed her for taking medication to address her postpartum depression in 2005.“Had Tom taken a public swing at me before I became a mother, I probably would have stayed quiet,” Shields wrote in her book. “I would have ignored his ridiculous rant.

Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation.” “I knew I could do better. After the second take, the director said, ‘Great. What do you guys think?’ I took that as his saying that it was good enough and that we could wrap this thing up.

All FoursMiranda July (Riverhead Books), $29July’s second novel is a story that’s at once eminently relatable to women over 40 and utterly unique. A mom and married artist plans to drive from LA to New York, where she’ll splash out on a stay at the Carlye and catch up with old friends and culture.

Ana On the Edge, by A.J. Sass, The Fabulous Zed Watson, by Basil Sylvester, Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea, by Ashley Herring Blake, and Too Bright to See, by Kyle Lukoff.All feature LGBTQ characters, but do not contain any sexual conduct or descriptions of sexual activity, reports the Cincinnati Enquirer.Cahall argues in her lawsuit, filed in U.S.

“Growing Up Urkel,” White, now 47, claims executives told him to wear looser jeans to conceal his “bulge” on the show, per the US Sun.According to him, they asked that he ditch Urkel’s signature tight suspenders and update his character’s wardrobe to more family-friendly attire after Season 8 as he aged. White started the show when he was around 13 and finished when he was 22. “Let’s get rid of the suspenders.

“Carson the Magnificent” written by Bill Zehme (who finished the book before he died in 2023) with Mike Thomas examines how the famous late-night host behaved around his spouses, including his first wife, Jody Wolcott, while he was under the influence. “There would be boozy rows aplenty — some in front of other couples — or long silent stews of resentment or recrimination or shame,” Zehme wrote about the couple, per Page Six.“Alcohol (while hardly a constant in their early years) was a friend to neither man nor wife; whenever lit, they would both act out, very badly,” he added. Carson and Wolcott tied the knot in 1949 and they had three sons together.

The Iliad.”According to NBC News, she has quite an expansive book list, with the 800-page Greek epic traveling with her from country to country. Usha, a Yale law graduate and attorney, has a reading list on Goodreads filed with her maiden name “Chilukuri.” On it are a chock-full of classics, literary masterpieces and books with unique premises.While Usha has remained quite analog on social media, her Goodreads presence has been vibrant from 2007 to 2017.

Fox News Digital in an interview published Tuesday. “When I think of islands, I think of the obvious places surrounded by water, and I was raised in New York. I just never thought of it as an island,” Mintz added.Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman outside his apartment in NYC on Dec.

“We All Shine On: John, Yoko, & Me,” out Tuesday.Mintz, 79, became friends with the couple after interviewing Ono, now 91, for her 1971 album “Fly.” He’s remained close with the Japanese singer, as well as her son Sean Lennon, since John’s death in 1980. “John kept a journal where each day he would write what his weight was,” Mintz alleged in his book about the late Beatles member, according to People.“Yoko and John had endless questions about this subject,” Mintz added.The media consultant said that Lennon once called him at 4 a.m.

“Sonny Boy,” which is out today. The memoir is one of “a man who has nothing left to fear and nothing left to hide,” as Pacino goes in-depth to give his great roles, collaborators, and films their full due.

record-breaking Eras Tour, which is ending in December.The 33-year-old music artist shared the big news about her first-ever book on Instagram and on “Good Morning America.”“We’ll be kicking off the final leg of The Eras Tour this week, which is hard to comprehend,” Swift wrote in her IG post. “This tour has been the most wondrous experience and I knew I wanted to commemorate the memories we made together in a special way.

revealed that she had an affair with a married man in the summer of 1967, shortly after she landed her first Broadway role in “Golden Rainbow.”She declined to name the man, but she described him in the book as, “a highly successful publicity agent.”“I knew that it was wrong,” Bishop told Fox News Digital.“You’re not supposed to be doing that,” she added.“He wasn’t either … I started thinking about his wife, who may or may not have known about us, who may have experienced other affairs he had. I don’t know.