Rushdie Cancels Festival Appearance Due To Threats
JAIPUR, India (Associated Press) -- Booker-Prize winning author Salman Rushdie canceled plans to appear at an Indian literature festival Friday after ...
JAIPUR, India (Associated Press) -- Booker-Prize winning author Salman Rushdie canceled plans to appear at an Indian literature festival Friday after ...
Victoria Lautman | Posted 03.13.2012
To describe the Jaipur Literature Festival as the rambunctious love-spawn of the mercantile-minded Frankfurt Book Fair and free-spirited Woodstock barely scratches the surface of this spectacle.
Jenny Shank | Posted 05.25.2011
Writing the Great American Novel seemed out of the question. So instead I set out to write the Decent Denver Novel. Why Denver, you ask? Why not Denver, I say.
Sophia Dembling | Posted 05.25.2011
Accidental books are books we might not have chosen given unlimited choice, but also don't mind reading when they fall in our path.
Daniel Krotz | Posted 05.25.2011
In 1978 the Corp of Engineers built a 48 million dollar reservoir in Oklahoma called Optima Dam. Due to declines in groundwater, it has never held so much as a teacup of water.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Ever since we posted our first installment of the HuffPost Readers' Picks, we've gotten a flood of further reader recommendations. The feature has bee...
HuffingtonPost.com | Rob Fishman | Posted 05.25.2011
Last night, the New York Public Library held its annual Library Lions dinner, followed by the Young Lions benefit party. This year, in a break from t...
Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011
There is a solution to the time crunch: the beauty and brevity of a short story. For those with circumscribed time, short stories deliver, and deliver big time.
Ivan Katz | Posted 05.25.2011
Although it's not accurate to say that every facet of the adaptation of Brokeback Mountain is utterly wrong-headed, there is enough bad thought in this proposal to fill a reservoir.
AP | By PRAKASH BHANDARI | Posted 01.23.2012