On Sunday, Denis Scheck, one of Germany’s preëminent literary critics painted his face black and went on TV to make the case that children’s book...
No high school English curriculum is complete without a mandatory dose of William Shakespeare, and no American teenager makes it to graduation without...
Blurbs have often been looked upon suspiciously by journalists. Do the authors really believe what they write on the covers of fellow authors' books, ...
What else would make Super Bowl Sunday complete but a hashtag? #SuperBowlLit went round Twitter on Friday, and here's the best of the tweets. Add ...
Reprinted from P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters, edited by Sophie Ratcliffe ($35, WW Norton, published February 4th 2013). Copyright © 2011 by the ...
Good morning, and welcome to Advanced English Literature--I'm Professor Anglosoundingname. As you can see, I have a mane of silver hair and wear a cor...
The Baltimore Ravens are named in honor of The Raven and Edgar Allan Poe, who lived in and is buried in Baltimore. Can you tell the difference between...
Pearson's commitment to publishing allowed it to widen the company's lead as the world's largest book publisher in 2011. While Pearson, with holdings ...
BBC Radio Three is currently broadcasting a fascinating series on the "50 key works" of classical music. This is a spin-off from Howard Goodall's BBC2...
Originally published by Publishers Weekly This week, Maurice Sendak's final book, body snatchers, and two books of poetry. Plus: a Woody Guthrie no...
Who would expect the Embassy of Cambodia? Nobody. Nobody could have expected it, or be expecting it. It's a surprise, to us all. The Embassy of Cambod...
NEW YORK — The latest website for discovering, discussing and buying books is sponsored by some of the industry's leading publishers. Simon & S...
This week will see the release of a book we’re pretty excited about: Carlene Bauer’s Frances and Bernard, a novel inspired by the relationship bet...
The internet might have given unprecedented freedom to writers, but with it comes inevitable exposure to trolls. Now one US author has decided to tack...
My four-year-old adores David Shannon's No, David! As we read the book, he revels in the terrible things that David does but, because we share them an...
Here’s the deal. I want to talk a little about book piracy. I’ve been blabbering about the realities of publishing recently, and this is one of th...
The new Bridget Jones book will be out in November, according to its American publisher AA Knopf. Publishers Weekly reports that the first two boo...
NEW YORK — Judy Greer is the latest celebrity with some funny stories to tell. Doubleday announced Tuesday that it would publish Greer's humoro...
Amazon.com announced the most romantic cities in the United States today, based on its sales. According to a press release put out by the company,...
Bookish, the new book recommendation/editorial website co-funded by Penguin, Hachette and Simon & Schuster launched yesterday after nearly two years a...
What Your Font Choices Say About You/Your Writing....
By Phil Stern for IndieReader.com Even before the ebook revolution, long-form series had generally taken over the Young Adult Fantasy and Science F...
Joan Didion looked tiny and frail on Tuesday night, swimming in her loose, gray top as she walked, assisted, to a chair and table set for her center s...
Today is the 201st anniversary of the birth of the incomparable Charles Dickens. Yet there's a lot of facts about him that you probably didn't know - ...
Authors are always looking for new ways to promote their books. For Electric Literature's first novel, Sam Pink has a particularly intimate proposal: ...
