Andrew Losowsky

Should Young Adult (YA) books be given movie-style ratings?

Yes, according to Dr Sarah Coyne, an assistant professor at Brigham Young University, who is one of four authors of an academic journal article published on May 18th, detailing the prevalence of swearwords in YA books....

At sunset on October 4, 2008, tens of thousands of people were gathered by the three rivers that run through downtown Providence, Rhode Island, to watch the lighting of the renowned art installation WaterFire. However, many did not known the history of the waters by which they stood.

By Andrew Losowsky, Books Editor

Barnes & Noble just got some new, potentially activist shareholders. Earlier this year, analysts speculated that its shareholders could force the company to sell off its Nook e-reader. If that were to happen, who should buy it?

In a word:...

Our team are looking forward to a great discussion around our latest Book Club pick. Before we begin, we wanted to share our own associations with the military, and what we're looking for from the discussions and issues raised around this book.

Andrew Losowsky, Books...

So much attention in the unending digital vs print debate has been placed on the physical properties of the book, both positive (books survive without power supplies, books look great on bookshelves, books are cheap) and negative (books are heavy, books aren't delivered instantly with a single click).

In...

When we choose our selections for the Book Club, we try to make them as timely as we can. It's a sad fact that our next choice has proven to be more timely than we ever would have wished.

What It Is Like To Go To War by...

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When we choose our selections for the Book Club, we try to make them as timely as we can. It's a sad fact that our next choice has proven to be more timely than we ever would have...

The Hunger Games Adventures is coming to Facebook - and if there was a way you could prepare your Facebook News Feed for an onslaught of Farmville-like messages, you should be doing it now.

The Huffington Post got a world-exclusive first look at the addictive...

A large coalition of publishing firms and related trade organizations has taken legal action against what the Association of American Publishers in Washington, D.C., described on Wednesday as "one of the largest pirate web-based businesses in the world."

At the request of 17 publishing companies in the United...

The HuffPost Book Club is proud to reveal its second title! I could write all kinds of things here about how fantastically well our conversations went around the first book, The Tiger's Wife, thanks to all your comments, tweets and photos, and...

The Huffington Post is launching a book club. This is why.

Stories are how we understand our world.

Books are not separate from the rest of our lives - just as a song can provide the perfect soundtrack to a real-life experience, so the characters, ideas, dilemmas, behaviors we...

As the Books Editor at The Huffington Post, I spend much of my time focusing on the output of publishers such as Penguin and Simon and Schuster.

However I have a secret obsession. I love magazines.

I'm (mostly) not talking about the kind of magazines you've heard of....

It began, as so many things, with an argument. One of those tedious ones, you know how they go: who would win in a fight between this fictional character and that? We enjoy these half-drunken amicable disagreements, not least because they rely on obscure knowledge of the personality traits of...

Libraries are essential public goods. 

Like our public parks and museums, public libraries are free, non-commercial gathering places for everyone, regardless of income. If information is power, then libraries are the essence of democracy and freedom. In these times of economic difficulty, more people are using them than...

The tale of Quentin Rowan's literary career is a strange and a sad one.

It started with spectacular success. In 1996, aged nineteen, he had a poem included in that year's compilation of Best American Poetry--a remarkable achievement for someone so young. "I took this anthology business as a...

How do you tell the story of Occupy Wall Street? An anonymous collective called "Writers for the 99%" is trying to do just that, creating a book for progressive publisher OR Books using a revolutionary writing method inspired by the movement's own democratic structure.

The...

Thrice-shortlisted author Julian Barnes is the favorite among gamblers to win the Man Booker Prize 2011.

But is his the best book on the shortlist? All six are written from the point of view of fictional narrators. Which ones are worth reading, and which ones...

Its statement is simple and stark.

"We, the undersigned writers and all who will join us, support Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement around the world."

The undersigned so far include Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, Lemony Snicket, Russell Banks, Jennifer Egan, Barbara...

The 'slush pile' is the collection of unasked for, unpublished work that writers send to publishers. Wading through it is often a thankless task given to the nearest passing intern/junior assistant. However, great writing can lie within, and just occasionally an author will land a lucrative book deal from sending...

When Mark Melvin asked his friend to order him a Pulitzer Prize-winning history book, he didn't expect to have to file a lawsuit in order to read it.

But Melvin is currently in jail, and the book in question, "Slavery By Another Name" by Douglas A...