Today in books and publishing: Laura Ingalls Wilder books slated for adaptation; Thurber prize winners; Bill O'Reilly's book on JFK's assassination; four new hunting memoirs.
Three days after then-Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for president on January 2, 1960, he invited two Newsweek journalists, bureau chief Ben Bradlee (who would go on to be a legendary editor of the Washington Post) and correspondent James M. Cannon (who would go on to be an aide to Gerald Ford). Lucky for us Cannon brought a tape recorder.
Discovered: Polar bears have been around for milions of years; the Big Rip gets moved up; a rat's heart becomes a jellyfish; JFK and LAX, hubs for the spread of infectious disease.
Spike Lee shook Mitt Romney's hand, favors Bloomberg's soda ban, thinks we will gentrify The Atlantic Ocean, and other highlights from his New York Magazine interview with Will Leitch.
Your daily dose of Jon Hamm news: An SNL sketch with Lindsay Lohan was pulled at the last second. And don't get him started on Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian!
John F. Kennedy was shot to death 48 years ago, and enough time has pass that people aren't quite sure how to mark the anniversary anymore.
From what we know so far, Jackie definitely loved her husband, definitely disliked Charles de Gaulle
A sensational account of Jackie's secret tapes is swatted down by ABC
No amphibians were hurt, but a runway was closed
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