Gore Vidal was certainly a prolific author, screenwriter, essayist. He was also a witty observer of human nature in the tradition of Mark Twain and H....
In 1995, Christopher Hitchens described Gore Vidal's final resting place in a piece for the London Review of Books. "You take a few paces down the...
Amazon came under fire this week from Love146, a group that campaigns against child trafficking and exploitation, for selling what appeared to be a se...
'Alice in Waterland' is a beautiful series of photographs re-imagining the Lewis Carroll classic underwater. It's a creation of photographer Elena...
From "Independents Rising" by Jacqueline S. Salit. Copyright © 2012 by the author and reprinted by permission of Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Ma...
By Kit Steinkellner for Book Riot After watching (and re-watching) (and re-re-watching) BBC’s Sherlock, the mini-series that might as well be cal...
A new transmedia project called 'The Numinous Place' is trying to raise money on Kickstarter. It already has one famous backer: the actor Russell Crow...
The earliest recognizable American flag - or the thing that it became - was created 235 years ago. Yet its meanings continue to shift and change as pa...
Real-world bookstores are suffering. We all know why. However, they are far from gone from our lives, and the iconic San Francisco bookstore Keple...
David Rakoff, the popular writer and radio personality, died yesterday of cancer, age 47. He was a frequent contributor to the radio show This America...
George R.R. Martin, author of "A Game of Thrones", has slammed "Republicans and their Teabagger allies" in so-called swing states for what he calls "v...
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2012 is the latest in an annual series of competitions to find the worst-possible opening sentence to a novel. T...
NEW YORK -- It's about freakin' time. The term "F-bomb" surfaced in newspapers more than 20 years ago but will land Tuesday for the first time in the...
These book and magazine covers all appear in Wes Anderson’s tale of an extended family with literary distinction (and, in one case, athletic infamy)...
The first female detective is generally agreed to have been "G", the hero of "The Female Detective," an 1864 novel soon to be republished by the Briti...
The Best Novel of All Time? It's an impossible statement of course, but while we wait for the big titles of the fall to hit, and everyone is talking a...
By Keri English for indiereader.com It’s summer time and the weather is hot. And so, evidently, is this season’s current reading list. “Momm...
Winter Journal by Paul Auster Henry Holt, $26 What is it about? An unconventional look at the author's own life, presented in fragments, lists ...
These poems are taken from the book Poetry of the Taliban (Columbia/Hurst, $24.50). These poems come from the chapters "Before Sept 11th" and "Love". ...
Our spurious 'Best Novel Of All Time' competition, with more than 1,100 comments, is now OVER! And the winner is (drumroll, please): "To Kill a Mocki...
You may wish you could Apparate to New York City come Oct. 16. J.K. Rowling will be making a rare public U.S. appearance to discuss The Casual Vaca...
Not long ago, we reported on Dr Seuss-themed weddings. Book mad Stefanie Kiper and Marc Schmidt have created their own literary theme for their forthc...
From the LA Review of Books: The apocalyptic novel has many mutations. In an increasingly modern and mechanized world, the anxiety of the apocaly...
These poems are taken from the book Poetry of the Taliban (Columbia/Hurst, $24.50). These poems come from the chapters "Before Sept 11th" and "Love". ...
NASA announced yesterday that the landing ground for the Curiosity explorer had been named Bradbury Landing, in honor of the late author Ray Bradbury....
