NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, will present the keynote address at the Columbia Spectator's Annual Awards Dinner, on Saturday, Feb.

When Vanessa Redgrave left the stage at the end of the 100- minute monologue that is The Year of Magical Thinking there was a profound silence.

By Allen O. Pierleoni, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Aug. 25--Joan Didion, who was scheduled to appear for a talk and book-signing in Sacramento on Oct. 4 after a 20-year absence from her hometown, has canceled all of her upcoming events nationwide, announced Suzette Riddle.

By Richard Satran NEW YORK (Reuters) - It began as a book written to help her cope with the sudden death of her husband. But Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking" became something much bigger than she expected.

John Gregory Dunne, a screenwriter and best-selling author who often collaborated with his wife, Joan Didion, and took a cynical look at Hollywood and the Roman Catholic Church in works like "True Confessions," has died at 71.