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Here's one potential winner from the UAW strike: Non-union auto workers in the South

If the UAW strike leads to a win for the union, southern auto workers believe that will lead to a pay up at plants like Nissan and Mercedes.

Singer and teen idol David Cassidy captivated the hearts and minds of many teenage girls, writer Allison Pearson included.

Allison Pearson's 'Love' Letter To Keith Partridge

Allison Pearson follows up her 2002 best-seller, I Don't Know How She Does It, with I Think I Love You, a novel about a teenage girl's obsession with teen star David Cassidy. The book wasn't hard for Pearson to write. When she was growing up, she was madly in love with Cassidy too.

<p>Guillermo del Toro's <em>Pan's Labyrinth </em>won three Oscars for art direction, cinematography and makeup.</p>

Del Toro On His 'Eternal' Obsession With Monsters

Few have as intense a relationship with monsters as filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. His award-winning film Pan's Labyrinth depicted real and fantastical monsters, while The Strain — the best-selling fantasy trilogy del Toro just wrapped up — re-imagines vampires as anything but romantic.

Novelist Don DeLillo is known for his sweeping works of fiction, including <em>White Noise, Falling Man</em>, <em>Libra</em> and <em>Underworld</em>. His latest work, <em>The Angel Esmeralda</em>, is a collection of nine short stories.

In Don DeLillo's 'Angel,' Stories Of America Alone

The latest book from the celebrated American novelist is a collection of short stories pulled from his decades-long career. Exploring themes of isolation and solitude, The Angel Esmeralda charts a changing America from the 1970s through today.

'Most Beautiful Woman' By Day, Inventor By Night

One of the biggest actresses of MGM's Golden Age, also lived a quiet life as an inventor. During World War II, Hedy Lamarr invented a form of wireless communication that led to Bluetooth, GPS and more.

<p>Jeffrey Eugenides is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <em>Middlesex.</em> His 1993 novel, <em>The Virgin Suicides,</em> was adapted for film by director Sofia Coppola. </p>

Eugenides Spins A Modern Kind Of 'Marriage Plot'

Madeleine, Mitchell and Leonard are about to graduate from Brown University when they get caught in a love triangle worthy of Jane Austen. In his latest book, Middlesex author Jeffrey Eugenides brings the classic Victorian marriage plot to a modern American college campus.

<p>Mindy Kaling is an Emmy Award-nominated writer and an actress on NBC's <em>The Office.</em></p>

Mindy Kaling On Diets, High School And Other American Pastimes

Mindy Kaling's humor is rooted in a type of circular logic that's all her own. Just consider this recent Tweet: "Can everyone buy my book please? I wanna quit the business and homeschool my kids real weird."

Speak, Memory: 'An Ending' That Uncovers The Past

Julian Barnes' Man Booker award-winning The Sense of an Ending investigates the power of self-delusion and how our memories are more edited than we believe.

<strong></strong>Ex-mobster Henry Hill (left, with Ray Liotta, who played him in the movie <em>GoodFellas)</em> met for a little Italian on the occasion of a DVD release. Hill is the central figure in <em>Wiseguy,</em> the 1986 Nicholas Pileggi book that became the movie; a 25th-anniversary edition is out with a new foreword from director Martin Scorsese.

For One 'Wiseguy,' A Permanent Place In Mobster Lore

Wiseguy author Nicholas Pileggi shares the back story on Henry Hill — the central figure in the sensational mob tale that became the film GoodFellas.

'El Narco': The Trade Driving Mexico's Drug War

In his new book, British journalist Ioan Grillo takes a close look at the Mexican drug war, starting with el narco, or the network of drug smugglers who cast a murderous shadow over Mexico.

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