Books and literature
This cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows "From Saturday Night to Sunday Night: My Forty Years of Laughter, Tears, and Touchdowns in TV" by Dick Ebersol. (Simon & Schuster via AP)
Review: Dick Ebersol recalls his outsized TV role in memoir

By Rob Merrill Sep. 19, 2022 09:38 AM EDT

Victor Wild, of the Russian Olympic Committee, competes during the men's parallel giant slalom finals at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Snowboarder Vic Wild's ride leads to another Olympic medal

By Eddie Pells Feb. 08, 2022 07:08 AM EST

FILE - Soccer player Megan Rapinoe poses for photos on the red carpet of the Women's Sports Foundation's 40th annual Salute to Women in Sports in New York on Oct. 16, 2019. Rapinoe has selected #MeToo founder Tarana Burke's memoir, “Unbound,” for her new book club. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
Goals: Megan Rapinoe launches 'The Call In' book club

Aug. 16, 2021 08:13 AM EDT

Snaefridur Sol Jorunnardottir and Anton Mckee, of Iceland, carry their country's flag during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 23, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Manga featured in opening ceremony for Tokyo Olympics

Jul. 23, 2021 07:49 AM EDT

FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2008, file photo, United States' LoLo Jones center, stumbles after hitting a hurdle in the women's 100-meter hurdles during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing Olympics in Beijing. When Lolo Jones opens her book, “Over It,” she doesn’t start with her biggest accomplishment. Instead, she opens with the “most painful race” of her career—the 100-meter hurdles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)
Olympian Lolo Jones examines life's hurdles in new book

By Ragan Clark Jul. 20, 2021 03:07 PM EDT

FILE - In this July 24, 2018 file photo, Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman listens to testimony during a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing in Washington. Raisman is looking for her beloved dog, who ran away scared during a weekend fireworks show in Boston. "My dog Mylo was terrified of fireworks and ran off," she tweeted Saturday, July 3, 2021, "He has a tag on and a leash. Please let me know if you see him." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Gymnast Aly Raisman reunites with dog who went missing

Jul. 10, 2021 03:34 PM EDT

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 1960, file photo, the medalists in the women's 200-meter event, from left, bronze medalist Dorothy Hyman, of Great Britain; gold medalist Wilma Rudolph, of the United States, and silver medalist Jutta Heine, of Germany, pose with their medals at the Olympic stadium in Rome, Italy. The 1960 Rome Summer Olympics set the standard for every Olympiad to follow. These Games were the first televised in the United States, even if film of events had to be flown from Rome to New York where Jim McKay did the voice-overs the next day. (AP Photo/File)
Wilma Rudolph turns in triple gold performance in Rome Games

By Teresa M. Walker Aug. 04, 2020 06:10 PM EDT

FILE - This May 22, 2018 file photo shows Stephen King at the 2018 PEN Literary Gala in New York. With independent bookstores shut down nationwide, a new online seller is offering help. In January, Andy Hunter launched Bookshop.org. Simon & Schuster is adding buy buttons for Bookshop.org to all of its websites and promoting Bookshop through emails and elsewhere online. It also has enlisted numerous authors, among them Stephen King, Susan Orlean and Jason Reynolds, to get the word out about Bookshop on social media and elsewhere. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
New online store offers help to shuttered indie booksellers

By Hillel Italie Apr. 02, 2020 02:25 PM EDT