This is page 35 of the nonfiction book news archives.

Tom Hanks Loves Starbucks (2006-03-28): According to The Hollywood Reporter Tom Hanks is set to star in the film version of the soon-to-be-published book, How Starbucks Saved My Life (Gotham).

How the Da Vinci Code Trial Ruling Will Affect Writers (2006-03-27): Lisa Rogak of The Houston Chronicle explores the implications for writers if the court rules against Random House in the Dan Brown/Da Vinci Code plagiarism trial.

2006 Book Sense Winners Announced (2006-03-17): The 2006 Book Sense Book of the Year winners have been announced.

Ray Kurzweil and the Coming Singularity (2006-03-13): Author Ray Kurzweil discusses his new book, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Viking), with the Paramus Post.

Jermaine Jackson and the Bizarre Book Proposal (2006-03-10): Pop star Michael Jackson has even more trouble brewing for him.

Penguin to Publish Alan Greenspan's Memoirs (2006-03-07): Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, has signed a huge book deal with Penguin for at least $7 million.

Nonfiction Authors Feeling the Frey Fallout (2006-03-03): Carol Memmet at USA Today investigates the effect that the James Frey disaster is having on nonfiction writers.

Andrew Morton Writing Book About Tom Cruise (2006-02-14): It appears that celebrity biographer Andrew Morton, best known for working with Princess Diana to tell her life story, is now writing a book about Tom Cruise.

Reading Frey With No Novocaine (2006-02-08): William Loizeaux of the Christian Science Monitor ponders the implications of the James Frey/Million Little Pieces debacle and how it will affect the genre itself in the future.

Dave Barry Gives Some Financial Advice (2006-02-06): Dave Barry talks to Newsweek about his latest book, Dave Barry's Money Secrets: Like: Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar? (Crown).

Nan Talese Takes the Fall (2006-02-02): The New York Observer delves into the James Frey/Nan Talese ritual humiliation on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Frey Fallout Continues (2006-01-30): It looks like the fallout from the James Frey/Million Little Pieces controversy is continuing.

Oprah Cuts Frey Into A Million Little Pieces (2006-01-27): Oprah Frey had James Prey on her show to answer questions about his lying and she cut him into a million little pieces.

Oprah Issues the Smackdown to Frey (2006-01-27): Oprah played it cool at first: she invited James Frey to come back on her show to discuss the scandal.

James Frey to Face the Music on Oprah (2006-01-25): It's time for James Frey to face the music: tomorrow, January 26, 2006, the author will appear once again on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss the controversy surrounding his drug addiction memoir, A Million Little Pieces.

Osama bin Laden Does a Book Blurb (2006-01-20): Now there's a book blurb that most authors really would not want to have: in his recent videotape, terrorist Osama bin Laden endorsed William Blum's Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower.

Nan Talese Talks About Frey (2006-01-18): The Observer reports on Nan Talese's repsonse to James Frey's assertions that his editor (Talese) wouldn't publish his book as a novel but demanded that it be sold as a nonfiction memoir.

The Housewife Turned Feminist (2006-01-16): Terry Hekker became an overnight success in 1980 with her book Ever Since Adam & Eve, which advocated women not working and just being the perfect housewife.

Site Accuses James Frey of Conning Oprah (2006-01-10): People magazine reports that bestselling author James Frey is being accused of making up many of the incidents in his drug- and alcohol-abuse memoir A Million Little Pieces.

Hershey Sues Over Book Cover Image (2005-12-20): The Associated Press reports that The Hershey Company is suing for an injunction against Simon and Schuster to stop the publisher from using the image of a giant Hershey bar on the cover of a new book called Hershey: Milton S.