I remember discovering Crazy Salad (with its trippy psychedelic '70s cover) in my parents' bookshelf when I was about 12. The first essay was one of Ephron's most famous -- "A Few Words About Breasts." It was about growing up, developing, worrying whether she fit in......

By now, everyone in Lit-Land has heard about the unhappy affair of Alice Hoffman.

Hoffman, a popular and prolific novelist, was unhappy with the review she received in the Boston Globe, her hometown paper, and took to Twitter to complain, calling reviewer Roberta Silman a "moron" and an "idiot,"...

I can't remember wanting to love a movie as much as I wanted to love the new Star Trek.

I grew up watching the original series in re-runs, entranced by the hard-charging, womanizing captain of the Enterprise, his coolly logical (but underneath the exterior, tormented and passionate!) first officer, and...

In preparation for my UK book tour last week, I did what any good chick-lit author would do: bought new shoes and boned up on British pop culture, a process that made me feel every minute of my age. Evidently, Bob Geldof's daughter is now a Paris Hilton-style star-slash-train wreck...

Last year, Stephen King gave an interview to USA Today in which he was asked to account for his critical renaissance. How did he make the move from pulp-peddling horror hack to an award-winning capital-A Author?

King was brutally frank. "Most of the old critics who panned anything I...