"The Casual Vacancy" has been knocked off its perch atop Amazon's bestseller list, falling to #2 behind Rick Riordan's "The Mark of Athena." ...

Junot Díaz and Dinaw Mengestu have been named MacArthur Foundation geniuses according to a tweet put out by their publisher, Riverhead Books, and an ...

Lee Moyer's lifelike illustrations have donned album covers and Laurel & Hardy box sets. Last year, he made his first-ever literary pin-up calendar, w...

Excerpted from The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012. Introduction © 2012 by Ray Bradbury, Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...

Excerpted from Letters from Berlin: A Story of War, Survival, and the Redeeming Power of Friendship by Kerstin Lieff and Margarete Dos. Copyright © 2...

Reprinted from "A Clockwork Orange: 50th Anniversary Edition, the Restored Text" by Anthony Burgess, edited by Andrew Biswell. Introduction and notes ...

The Best Book Designs of 2011 have been named by 'Design Observer', one of the leading websites for design criticism and intelligent thinking around t...

Open Road Media has been making some interesting author-based videos recently. In the latest, writers Dean Koontz, Peter Lerangis, Bette Greene, P...

I love to read equally fiction, ethnography, history and cultural studies, and I always make room for something I'll stumble on. I go to bookstores an...

By Terri Giuliano Long for IndieReader.com Not too long ago, traditional publishers held all the cards. If publishing houses rejected a book, it...

"A Clockwork Orange" is a unique novel that, thanks to Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film, has become a fundamental cultural touchstone. Written in the imagi...

Not once in any Star Wars movie does someone pick up a book or newspaper, magazine, literary journal, or chapbook handmade by an aspiring Jawa poet. I...

For Banned Books Week 2012, the Lawrence Public Library in Kansas has created a special series of trading cards of banned books, illustrated by local ...

Excerpted from Letters from Berlin: A Story of War, Survival, and the Redeeming Power of Friendship by Kerstin Lieff and Margarete Dos. Copyright © 2...

Aptaracorp has released its annual survey of ebook production trends, and to mark the event (and to get more publicity) they've come up with a dramati...

Random House turns Open House with a unique event in New York City on Friday November 2nd. There will be behind-the-scenes tours, discussions, min...

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Lena Dunham's book deal is the talk of the industry. The 26-year-old creator and star of HBO series "Girls" has apparently sold her unwritten essa...

"WARNING: This book is not for children of any age." So begins K is for Knifeball, the disturbingly funny new book from the creators of the equally ma...

Roll up, roll up! We love a great circus, and Yale University Press and the Bard Graduate Center would like to invite you all to the big top via t...

Photos of space always make our jaws drop and our problems seem tiny. The new book Planetfall: New Solar System Visions by Michael Benson (Abrams, $55...

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the world's biggest trade fair for the book industry. Here's what I saw at this year's event.

When The Daily Show's Jon Stewart gave JK Rowling a lesson in American politics on last night's show, the author expressed herself to be "quite taken ...

Robert Greene wrote the bestseller "The 48 Laws of Power," and he's about to return with a new book, "Mastery," ($28.95, Viking, November 13th.) Its t...

Short stories, when done well, can be perfect narratives, captured in miniature. So when The Paris Review recently released their new book, Object Les...