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After heart surgery and seven years away from the stage, comedian Robin Williams is ready to storm Broadway with his one-man show Robin Williams, 58, was forced to postpone his comedy comeback earlier this year when a heart problem required surgery.

With winter on the way, it's a good time to give and receive books - and maybe a Johnson Woolen Mills' blanket to wrap your favorite reader in.

On John Irving's Wikipedia page, there is a colourful chart dedicated to matching his novels with his recurring themes.

Artist: Williams, Robin Robin Williams previously was one of the hardest-living men in show business.

John Irving has always called himself an underdog, and he still talks like one even at 67, even wildly famous as one of Americas great storytellers, even at the release of his 12th novel, certain to be a best-seller.Maybe he feels goaded.

John Irving packs a lot - too much at times - into his 12th novel. But if you like sprawling family stories with sexual complications, memorable characters and reflections on writing, "Last Night in Twisted River" is for you.

Backstage, renowned novelist John Irving tells a story about the 300-pound man he found in the sauna at his New York hotel that morning.

John Irving's appearance is part of the California Lectures series. In John Irving's latest novel, the main character shares the author's profession, but that's not the most important similarity.

We're more than halfway through Seattle's fall literary season, and it's been as rich as any in recent memory.

Fans of John Irving who relish the mutilations he inflicts on characters might be delighted to learn that his 12th novel opens in a 1954 New Hampshire logging camp.

The New Hampshire author's latest book - his twelfth - follows a cook father and his novelist son as they flee town after a grisly murder.

Former Akronite John Lithgow, center, has a killer role as mild-mannered suburbanite Arthur Mitchell in the fourth season of Showtime's "Dexter." Five terrific episodes into its razor-sharp fourth season, Showtime's "Dexter" is getting a tremendously suspenseful boost from new cast member John Lithgow.

Just as the nights turn long and cold, a new John Irving saga arrives to carry us away.

It takes a lot to slow the hyperdrive pace of Robin Williams. He's been a star for 32 years.

When "The World According to Garp" was published more than 30 years ago, John Irving found himself on bestseller lists for the first time.

With his new novel, Last Night in Twisted River , John Irving once again performs the most death-defying of literary feats: He negotiates the delicate line between familiarity and novelty in such impressive style as to create a work that is at once comfortable, vintage Irving yet wholly new and unique.

LIKE MOST of John Irving's novels, Last Night At Twisted River has a vast number of characters, settings and pages.

Let's be clear right off the top: At the age of 12, John Irving didn't inadvertently kill a woman with a cast-iron skillet after mistaking her for a bear.

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Even his agent and second wife, Janet Turnbull, eagerly awaits the answer; tonight is the first she's heard of the twenty-gauge shotgun he keeps in his office.