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“Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time” chronicles the champagne decadence and wicked wit of the New York society doyenne Mamie Fish.

A novelist and memoirist, she famously clashed with her brother, leading to the fall of a Kentucky publishing dynasty that her paternal grandfather established in 1918.

Jon Lee and Scott Anderson avoid being in the same conflict zone. But with new books publishing this month, they made a rare joint appearance in New Jersey.

The Pennsylvania senator will recount political battles and physical and mental health challenges in “Unfettered.”

Proposed legislation would pressure publishers to adjust borrowing limits and find other ways to widen access.

In her new book, “A Marriage at Sea,” the British journalist revisits an amazing account of disaster and survival from the early 1970s.

Writing for The Daily Planet about his heroic alter ego raises thorny issues for Clark Kent. Lois Lane has her conflicts, too.

He was an intrepid journalist in Vietnam, Africa and the Middle East before becoming a mainstay news presenter on British TV.

For nearly 50 years, he was ubiquitous on British television — first as a reporter and then as an imperturbable presenter on Independent Television’s “News at Ten.”

Her 76 books included “Life as We Knew It,” a late-career best seller that told the story of a family in postapocalyptic Pennsylvania.