San Jose Mercury News: Books

Self-proclaimed 'minimalists' Ryan Nicodemus and Joshua Millburn have published 'Everything That Remains: A Memoir' to share the ideas that led each to a less acquisitive lifestyle.

Novel is based on an unsolved killing in San Francisco in 1876

We are deep into National Poetry Month, but ample opportunity remains to pay homage to the literary art that so persuasively appeals to both our cerebral and our emotional selves.

Sandberg spoke to The Associated Press this week, her first U.S. interview about the new edition of her book, 'Lean In.' She also addressed those persistent rumors that she may be interested in a future in politics, and the continued debate over the word 'bossy.'

Zac Unger, longtime firefighter and paramedic with the Oakland Fire Department and author of a memoir about his family's adventures in the Arctic ("Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye"), was an honored author at a recent literary dinner at the Lafayette Library.

Woman in war-torn Beirut finds solace in company of books

NEW YORK (AP) -- Before his mother became the model for Blanche DuBois of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and his sister the inspiration for Laura Wingfield of "The Glass Menagerie," Tennessee Williams drew upon a college girlfriend -- if only in name -- to tell a story of desire, drunkenness and regret.

Amid the extortion, bribes, there is beauty, creativity, narrator says

True crime recounted in Levingston's account of case that had all of Paris in its grip

There's a memoir about Rob Reiner's classic 1987 film "The Princess Bride" coming out this fall, and since it's penned by the actor who played the hero, we're betting fans who have seen the movie many times over can already guess the title.