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Tom Brady Reads The Four Agreements Before Start of Each Football Season

Tom Brady sits down and reads The Four Agreements before the start of each football season. September 14, 2015

Jonathan Franzen Enviro Shames Chipotle Customers

Jonathan Franzen has written a short short story for Chipotle which shames customers for drinking out of the paper cup on which the story is printed. September 14, 2015

Stephen King Discusses Being Awarded National Medal of the Arts

Stephen King was awarded the National Medal of the Arts by President Obama. He wore the medal during an interview with Stephen Colbert. September 14, 2015

Sam Smith Wrote New Bond Theme Song in Twenty Minutes

Sam Smith wrote the new james Bond Theme song for Spectre. He says he wrote the song, Writing's on the Wall, in 20 minutes. September 9, 2015

Anthony Horowitz Apologizes for Saying Idris Elba Too Street to Play James Bond

Anthony Horowitz, author of the Alex Ride and new James Bond series, has apologized for saying that Idris Elba is too street to play James Bond. September 6, 2015

Virtual Reality Facebook Demonstrated on Jimmy Kimmel

Facebook announced the acquisition of Oculus VR last year. September 5, 2015

Adorable Baby Bookworm Sobs When a Book Ends

10 month old Emmett Stevers sobs uncontrollably when a book ends. The adorable book lover just wants the book to begin again. September 4, 2015

President Obama Tours Alaska to Shine Spotlight on Climate Change

President Obama is touring Alaska to shine a spotlight on Climate Change. One of his stops included a melting glacier. September 2, 2015

U.S. Women's Soccer Team Captain Carli Lloyd to Publish Memoir

Carli Lloyd, the captain of the U.S. women's national soccer team, will publish her memoir with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. September 1, 2015

Brain Fart, Bants and Fur Baby Added to Oxford Online Dictionary

The Oxford Dictionaries have added brain fart, bants, fur baby, blockchain and manic pixie dream girl to the online dictionary. They also added beer o'clock for some reason. August 31, 2015

Mark Zuckerberg Says 1 Billion People Used Facebook on Monday

Mark Zuckerberg says August 28, 2015

Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence are Writing a Screenplay Together

Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence are writing a screenplay for a comedy they will co-star in. They will play sisters. August 27, 2015

Kazuo Ishiguro's Literary Archives Go to UT Austin's Harry Ransom Center

The University of Texas' Harry Ransom Center will house the archives of award-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. The fantastic collection was organized by Ishiguro himself. August 25, 2015

American Train Heroes Receive France's Highest Honor

Anthony Sadler, Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos receive the Legion d'Honneur for their heroic actions stopping a terrorist attack on a high speed train to Paris. August 24, 2015

University of Akron Press is Back in Business

After a huge backlash over the gutting of the University of Akron Press' budge and staff, the Trustees have relented and are rehiring all the staff. August 23, 2015

Author Doris Lessing Spied on by MI5 for 20 Years

She was the oldest author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 88. Newly declassified documents reveal MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years. August 21, 2015

Simon & Schuster and Hotels.com Team Up to Help Bored Travelers

Simon & Schuster and Hotels.com team up to get bored travelers bestselling ebooks. August 20, 2015

Donald Trump Gains in New CNN/ORC Poll

Donald Trump has 24% of the vote in a new CNN/ORC poll. He also has the trust of Republicans on several issues. August 18, 2015

John Grisham, Greg Iles and Kathryn Stocket Lead Charge to Remove Confederate Flag in Mississippi

Bestselling authors Greg Iles, John Grisham, Kathryn Stocket and Steve Yarbrough call for the removal of the Confederate battle flag in Mississippi's state flag. August 18, 2015

Sir Patrick Stewart Loves the Challenge of Twitter Restrictions

Sir Patrick Stewart talks about the beauty of Twitter restrictions and having to refine information to fit in 140 characters. August 17, 2015

Karl Rove to Publish New Book in November

Political analyst Karl Rove will publish a new book in November called The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters. August 16, 2015

Bryan Cranston Plays Blacklisted Screenwriter in Trumbo Trailer

Bryan Cranston plays legendary blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. He won two Oscars for his screenplays under an assumed name. August 16, 2015

Richard Blanco Reads New Poem at Opening of U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba

Inaugural poet Richard Blanco read his new poem, Matters of the Sea, at the reopening of the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. He discusses his inspiration for the poem. August 14, 2015

George R.R. Martin Plans Bittersweet Ending for Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin hasn't written the ending for A Song of Fire and Ice, but he's aiming for a bittersweet tone as Tolkien used to end The Lord of the Rings trilogy. August 13, 2015

Google Reorganizes Under New Holding Company Called Alphabet

Google has reorganized itself under a new holding company called Alphabet. Google will now be a company within Alphabet, inc. August 10, 2015