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From Flavorwire: With Valentine’s Day rapidly approaching, the more bookish among you may be thinking about getting literary gifts for your loved...

When I was brought to the Lincoln White House as an intern, I had no idea what I was doing there. I just wandered around asking people "Mister, do you know why I'm in Washington? Somebody sent me a note."

Many believe that to make good money decisions you need to have a plan for every situation. You need insurance for every possible setback, and investments for every market condition. Trouble is, the real world is complicated: we don't know what's going to happen.

The simple fact is that we all sin, and we do it all the time. But fear not: the seven deadly sins aren't as bad for you as you might think.

The most appealing aspect of these stories is that the creative characters and landscapes leap off the page and most importantly, how these stories make us think.

I admit I watched - a phalanx of paparazzi standing outside of yet another rehab facility waiting to take a shot of some young woman in trouble, I said to myself, sarcastically: why don't they just follow her in there? And then I said to myself: what a great idea for a book!

By Margaret Bristol and Robbie Olson for Bookish: The upcoming premiere of NBC's "Smash" got us thinking: With all the books finding their way to t...

Many features of the "1984" Big Brother state -- thought control, double-think, newspeak, fact distortion, memory mutability, wanton state repression and infallibility of the Party -- still ring true in present-day China.

Maybe it was your son's family tree homework assignment, or maybe it was that co-worker bragging about being related to Jesse James, but now you've got a bit of an itch to take peek into your past. Perhaps I can ease you along your learning curve.

By Sara Benincasa For Bookish Sure, you know Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone has three kids, two marriages, and a boatload of films and albums unde...

Siglio Press recently announced a book called "Between Page And Screen", what they call "a digital pop-up book." Each page will contain no words at al...

Today, a surprisingly high number of people are choosing to go solo because it facilitates the pursuit of good things that are otherwise hard to come by: Control of one's own time and space. Freedom to do what one wants, when one wants to do it. Privacy. Anonymity. Autonomy.

By Bookish After a decisive win in Florida, Mitt Romney is once again the GOP presidential front-runner. To get a better sense of the man and his m...

NEW YORK — Billy Ray Cyrus is the latest celebrity to sign up with Amazon.com The singer of "Achy Breaky Heart" and father and former co-star o...

By Daniel Lefferts for Bookish: James Joyce’s "Ulysses" turns 90 today. The nearly 800-page behemoth, long regarded as one of the best (and most ...

By Gabe Habash for PWxyz: “Moon People has reshaped my literary perceptions." – Goodreads reviewer Neil What I’m going to do before te...

Whether the heroes and heroines of these books are precocious or tentative, suicidal or resourceful, disconnected or endearing, each of them bumbles along as we all did -- as we all do! -- without a handbook.

Is your drink of choice bordeaux or a cosmo? Would you rather rock a quirky Amelie-inspire bob, or the unruly locks of Carrie Bradshow? Do you indulge...

With the publication of a lyrical novel written by a promising young author, Jeffery Eugenides's long awaited tale of books and boyfriends, Steve Job'...

It's been over a year since we first met, Giulia Falcone, the innocent and charming nun who jumped the convent walls. She is author, Alice Loweecey's,...

Heartfelt and sincere or cynical and opportunistic, the New Hate poisons our political discourse and divides us even more than we are already. Subject its premises to critical or historical analysis, or merely expose them to the light of day, and they lose much of their potency. Just ask Ron Paul.

By Emily Temple for Flavorwire: The decades-old controversy over Salman Rushdie’s "The Satanic Verses" has been in the news again recently follow...

Conservatives now have little in common with the principles and attitudes that the Republican Party used to stand for, which explains why few Republicans express loyalty toward former GOP heroes such as Dwight Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.

By Rebecca Joines Schinsky for BookRiot: It wasn’t when we moved in together, or when we got engaged, or even when we merged bank accounts (becau...

When we began to discuss the book cover for our latest Igniter release, Satan Is Real, we all agreed there's no need to design a cover from scratch when the perfect cover image was already created 50 years ago. To reinterpret this one would be a sin (yeah, I said it).