Many books have been written about poverty in America. As part of the Shadow Conventions 2012, we've talked to experts across the country, in academia...
Long before three w's together was a word, writers have been pushing the boundaries of fiction and reality on digital platforms. In 1976, readers expl...
Bret Easton Ellis uses Twitter to provoke and annoy. We've had enough of it.
The following is the first chapter of "The Lincoln Conspiracy" (Ballantine Books, $26), a new historical thriller by Timothy L. O'Brien, Executive Edi...
The Booker Prize 2012 shortlist was announced today, with the early favorite being Hilary Mantel's "Bring up the Bodies," the sequel to her Booker Pri...
Afterward, when the world was exploding around him, he felt annoyed with himself for having forgotten the name of the BBC reporter who told him that h...
Scrabble words with Q. It's the eternal conundrum. You know the feeling - you pull out the letters from the Scrabble bag, and you get the Q but no U. ...
As Apple announces its latest doodad, we're reminded that the BBC's Horrible History series last year announced a Roman invention that's a little clos...
"Like a gun buy-back program." That's how Fernanda Diaz at OR Books describes their publicity stunt for the book "Fifty Shades of Louisa May." ...
Print-on-demand (POD) books could soon be everywhere, according to a major announcement made today. On Demand, the makers of the POD Espresso Book ...
Police have taken an apparently disgruntled author into custody after a popular literary agent and blogger was attacked in her car Thursday. Pam va...
British-based Slinkachu is no average street artist. His works are often achingly beautiful, bitingly satirical, and are always very, very small. In t...
San Miguel by TC Boyle Viking, $27.95 What's it about? San Miguel is a real island off the coast of Southern California, part of the archipelag...
The sequel to The Shining, Stephen King's classic horror story turned into a movie starring Jack Nicholson, will be released on September 24, 2013, th...
Written by Greg Zimmerman for Bookriot.com Let it not be said that the folks at Ladbrokes don’t have a sense of humor. There, at the end of their...
The Printorium is an online store like no other. Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima were graphic designers for ten years on the Harry Potter films, r...
On August 4, 1996, Paul Jensen did something he never thought he would do. He blew up a piece of his ranch land— the same land that his grandfather ...
President John F. Kennedy was worried that he might be impeached, questioned the wisdom of America's nuclear arsenal, and he and General MacArthur fel...
The James Bond books by Ian Fleming have been in print since they were written in the 1950s-60s. In preparation for the new Bond movie Skyfall, new re...
"The Casual Vacancy," JK Rowling’s new book, and her first for adults, comes out on Thursday around the world. Expectation is building about the rea...
"Life After Death" by Damien Echols Blue Rider Press, $26.95 What is it about? Damien Echols was one of the West Memphis Three, found guilty of ...
On a rainy afternoon in June 1863, Mark Twain was nursing a bad hangover inside Ed Stahle's fashionable Montgomery Street steam rooms, halfway through...
A New York publisher this week filed lawsuits against several prominent writers who failed to deliver books for which they received hefty contractual ...
Andy Serkis reprises his role as Gollum in the forthcoming 'Hobbit' movies, but there's nothing quite as strange as watching the man himself put on th...
"The Casual Vacancy": A Review Little, Brown; $35.00 Published today Buy it from an indie bookseller Buy it on Amazon Buy it from Barnes & Noble...
