STOLEN: Book Trailer
At just seven years old, Lauren Burns was abducted by her father and taken from her home in Texas to the Middle East—thrust into a life she did not recognize and a future she could not understand. What followed was an extraordinary international rescue, carried out by a small team of former military operatives—and a
Daniel Penny’s lawyer has written a legal thriller.
Attorney Thomas Kenniff, 51 — who along with his law partner Steven Raiser succcessfully defended subway Samaritan Daniel Penny in a sensational trial that captivated the nation in late 2024 — is adding another chapter to his career: author. His debut novel Tuxedo Park (Post Hill Press) was released this past Tuesday. The legal thriller, which
What I Saw in North Korea’s Darkest Years
“With the collapse of the Public Distribution System, which had been the sole source of food, many urban residents, unable to grow anything for themselves, simply wasted away in their homes, starving quietly and out of sight.” The Diplomat has published an excerpt from Miss Kathi by Kathi Zelleger and Mike Chinoy. Miss Kathi is available for
Steve Cuozzo Mentioned on Page Six
New York Post columnist Steve Cuozzo has covered restaurants and commercial real estate for more than a quarter-century. But neither subject drives his debut novel, Consuella’s Thrill, from Post Hill Press. The twists-packed erotic thriller, due in December, follows the Monte Carlo and Coney Island bedroom misadventures of a fetching poetry teacher who sets out to
Family Secrets Blew Up ‘Entourage’ Writer’s Life
Cliff Dorfman is a man of many hats. He began his career as an actor with arcs on shows like Beverly Hills 90210 back in the ‘90s, before penning 14 episodes of Entourage, co-writing the Tom Hardy-Joel Edgerton MMA film Warrior, and writing for both DC Comics and Sega. But, despite past attempts, he couldn’t
Aid against the odds: running an NGO in North Korea
The forthcoming Miss Kathi: Saving Lives in North Korea is a book-length account in English by an aid worker operating on the ground amid the tensions and threat of conflict perpetually looming over the Korean peninsula. For many North Koreans, Zellweger was the first foreigner they had ever met or even seen. Playing a central
70 years later, the family of a Brookline killer is still trying to understand his actions
Are murderers born or made? Does one episode of lost control define an entire lifetime? Can familial love transcend any barrier, even the bars of a prison cell? Those unanswerable questions lie at the heart of The Curse of the Blumenthals, part true-crime thriller and part genealogical record of a troubled Brookline family. The book,
He’s trolling doctors and therapists. They’re actually AI.
Real-life, human doctors say the videos raise some good points about the flaws of AI. Dr. Alan Cohen, chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children’s Hospital and author of Comfort Always: Healing in the Age of Technology, said these videos do a great job of using humor to show some of AI’s shortcomings when
The Man Who Invented Online Sports Betting—and Went to Prison for It
In the early 1990s, Jay Cohen was a trader on the Pacific Options Exchange in San Francisco. Traders will bet on anything, and so Cohen and a colleague set up a brisk market for betting on the outcome of the O.J. Simpson trial. But it wasn’t a traditional yes/no betting structure. You could actually buy
What if Marilyn Monroe never died?
Author Lois Cahall imagines a world where Marilyn escaped her own death, and asks what it means for women to be remembered as survivors, not victims. Marilyn Monroe would have turned 100 on June 1, 2026, and the world has been celebrating her centennial all summer with official festivals and events focusing on her enduring