Apart from the free food and general coolness of being at that kind of event — if you're into such things — after reading Stengel's account I am forced to conclude that it was an excruciating evening.
From the transcript of a chat with J.K. Rowling hosted by original U.K. publisher Bloomsbury and linked on the faithful MuggleNet: Smallbutpowerful: On behalf of all harry potter fans who consider themselves to be hufflepuffs could you please describe the hufflepuff common...
By 12:30 a.m. on July 21, after waiting two and a half hours at the local Barnes & Noble, I finally had the seventh and final Harry Potter book in my hands. It all ended with a sleepless weekend filled with sporadic bouts of incessant crying, armed only with my...
So by now you may have seen the movie version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and you are probably dying to read the exciting conclusion... but you may also realize you've forgotten what happens in between. I for...
Congratulations, New York Observer, you earn our Spoilsport Award with the awful and self-satisfied "Harry Potter and the End of Enchantment" by Mark Lotto, and not just because it reveals a vital plot points two-thirds down on the first page and then says...
Harry Potter might possess the powers to vanquish evil wizards -- but not Chinese pirates. Bootleg English-language copies of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," J.K. Rowling's latest and last novel in her super-selling series, have been appearing on the streets of Beijing -- testimony to local pirates' ability to...
"Jarvis likes to sleep on my bed while I work from my desk at home," says Book Standard reporter Kimberly Maul. "Now that I work from home most days, his schedule goes like this:" 7 A.M.: step on my face and wake...
Watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix this weekend (liked it, but for whatever reason it didn't involve me nearly as much as the others), it occurred to me that the Harry Potter franchise has been cast better than just about any film series I can think of....
John Edwards may be struggling with the Love That Dare Not Speak It's Name but YouTube users have no problem with it, as evinced by this touching tribute to Ron and Harry — a friendship...
Investors went on an Amazon.com Inc. shopping spree Tuesday after the Web retailer said its second-quarter profit more than tripled, thanks to strong sales of books, music and electronics worldwide. Wall Street may also have been cheering a slowdown in spending on technology after several years of heavy investment.
Harry Potter charmed millions of readers this weekend, but the spell was broken at least briefly for some fans when they found pages missing from their precious copies of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." The book's publisher, Scholastic Inc., says a few hundred of the 12 million copies of...
The fate of Harry Potter and friends, known now to millions of fans, remains officially secret -- sort of. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final volume of author J.K. Rowling's fantasy series, came out Saturday amid an international frenzy to find out whether Harry lived or died. More...
J.K. Rowling: £96 For Every Word In Deathly Hallows: Yet another way of measuring how rich J.K. Rowling is! That book is 759 pages long. And now we know why. [MSNBC] Yes, but were those 8.3 million copies as...
Can't a girl do a simple search in Google News for "Harry Potter" without being spoiled? Apparently not, though this time I've no one to blame but myself, for not thinking that, gee, the words "Harry Potter" might not be safe to type...
Okay, so we STILL don't know if Hermione and Ron get it on at all, but that never mattered to the stalwarts on YouTube — I believe the term of art is "shippers," that is to...
WWHD? Bloomberg columnist Michael Hassett puts on his economics thinking cap and throws around terms like "new economy" and "network externalities" to explain the Potter phenomenon. Oh yeah, and he predicts Deathly Hallows will outsell the Bible this year. Take that, Jesus! Home Sweet Kabul: Stateside Potter-ites lament not...
We're just sayin'. But also, it took a $50 bet between myself and a friend to see who could actually finish The English Patient first because neither of us particularly wanted to. I can't recall who won our little English Patient-off; I only know that no such incentives...
Okay, maybe — just maybe — we spent some time this weekend perusing Harry Potter fan vids on YouTube, and maybe — just maybe — we got a little distracted by the "Harry Loves Hermione" slice of the oeuvre. But it was...
In the Wall Street Journal, Joe Queenan really whiffs badly in an attempt to draw a historical comparison between the Leno-Conan-NBC wars and... uhm... well, Hitler. As they say: "Oy."
