Costello lists Merle Haggard as an early influence in the world of country music. Costello has covered Haggard several times.
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Chicken-Fried News: The confession
Oral Roberts’ gay grandson is releasing a memoir post by post on Instagram.
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Gymnast Shannon Miller releases new book
Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller’s new memoir, It’s Not About Perfect, chronicles her Olympic adventures and her battle with ovarian cancer.
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The reading dead
The actor, best-known for playing the now-deceased T-Dog in TV’s smash-hit series The Walking Dead and Alton in the Oscar-winning drama The Blind Side, was all smiles as he walked into the Barnes & Noble at 13800 N. May this afternoon to promote his book, Blindsided by the Walking Dead. A line of waiting fans […]
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Remembering
Jim Ross served his country with honor while risking his life every day on a foreign battlefield and in a war that seemed senseless to many Americans. A veteran of the Vietnam War, the Arcadia resident is author of a new memoir, Outside the Wire: Riding with the ‘Triple Deuce’ in Vietnam 1970, which tells […]
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House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
The loss was as unexpected as it was tragic. Shadid, born and raised here, was a true savant: a fluent speaker of Arabic whose ambition for storytelling heeded few warnings of danger. He caught a sniper’s bullet with his shoulder in the West Bank in 2002 and survived a well-publicized kidnapping in Libya last spring, […]
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Bud light
Bud Wilkinson engineered a 47-game winning streak as the legendary football coach at the University of Oklahoma. Now, more than 50 years later, 47 of his personal letters to his son are bound together in Jay Wilkinson’s new book, “Dear Jay, Love Dad: Bud Wilkinson’s Letters to His Son.” Bud Wilkinson penned dozens of letters […]