Far From The Tree: Parents, Children, and the search for Identity by Andrew Solomon Scribner, $37.50 November 13, 2012 What is it about? This is...
By Michael Stillman First published by AE Monthly at americanaexchange.com Most of us have probably sold an old book at a yard sale, on eBay, give...
LONDON -- It's the prize no author wants to win. Award-winning novelist Nancy Huston won Britain's Bad Sex in Fiction award Tuesday for her novel "In...
From Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman ($35, Harvard University Press) Alexander "Sasha" Berkman and Emma...
In his first session with Dr. Melfi, Tony Soprano says: "It's good to be in something from the ground floor. I came too late for that, I know. But lat...
STOCKHOLM — This year's Nobel Prize in literature winner, Mo Yan, who has been criticized for his membership in China's Communist Party and relu...
The 'It Gets Better' Project was founded in September 2010 by columnist and author Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller, "to show young LGBT people...
On Wednesday afternoon, the New York Times published a story written by Catherine Saint Louis claiming that public libraries were now devoting preciou...
Hurricane Sandy impacted many people who work in the book industry, from publishers to ...
Lena Dunham's $3 million-plus book deal picked up headlines and scorn in equal measure when it was announced in October (though not everyone thought i...
When a book invents a piece of jewelry as a plot point, you can bet that someone on Etsy or elsewhere will try to make it real - especially if it come...
Earth Aware Editions and the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew have produced a stunning book, Seeds: Time Capsules of Life, featuring close ups of some of ...
The Socialite Who Killed A Nazi With Her Bare Hands (and 143 Other Fascinating People Who Died This Year) Workman, $12.95 What is it about? 144 o...
Eagle-eyed Consumerist reader Len was shopping at Target over the weekend looking for a DVD, when he says something kinda funny caught his eye. No, it...
Michael Bush, together with Dennis Tompkins, designed outfits for Michael Jackson for more than 25 years. In his new book The King of Style (Insight E...
In 1936, a company called Universal Publications in the UK produced a book called Do's and Don'ts for Lovers. Its intention: to help men and women rec...
Between the 1920s and the 1960s, Hollywood stars would be photographed "at home", as if captured (in full make up) casually lounging, laughing, hangin...
Fun fact: "Tea in the Sahara" by The Police is a reference to The Sheltering Sky, specifically the chapter in the book (titled "Tea in the Sahara") in...
They practiced in a world where blacks and whites seemed to want them to be both like and unlike the rest of their race.
James and Karla Murray are on a mission to protect and record New York's smaller spaces. Their first book, Store Front, made a cover star out of Ralph...
It's been quite a year for publishing. The Random Penguin. Fifty Shades of Everything. No Pulitzer for Fiction winner. The DOJ settlement. Yet 201...
MILWAUKEE — The vast collection of J.R.R. Tolkien manuscripts initially sold senior Joe Kirchoff on Marquette University, so when the school off...
