New Yorker editor David Remnick has recently begun writing a book focusing on Barack Obama, race and politics in America. Remnick confirmed to Politi...
Dreams are a reflection of what is really going on with us while we're walking around going about our lives. Dreams show us things that are deeply un...
One thing did become clear when I spoke to other people about ebooks though. They are seen as a supplement to the printed word, not a replacement for it.
Libraries exist as centers of culture, community and learning. For many Americans, the public library is the only option they have for financial advice and information to secure their families' futures.
NEW YORK — Jon Stewart, Barbara Walters and some other famous people would like you to buy books during the holiday season. "Books make great g...
I cannot be bought. Not for less than 20 bucks. So there's no need to worry that my judgment has been tainted by the fact that a publisher sent me a ...
Carrie Fisher appeared on Today to promote her new memoir "Wishful Drinking," which reveals some of the demons she battled in life, including drugs an...
The new book by 82-year-old master of magical realism will be a love story, his friend and fellow writer Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza said. However, the au...
This is a book that echoes. Barack's father, in a letter to his 10-year-old son, tells him, "Like water finding its level, you will find a career that suits you."
Last week the publishing world was shaken by word of layoffs and reorganization inside some of the top publishing houses. While the written word is st...
After the profile of bisexual publisher Neal Boulton in last Sunday's Post, Boulton was swamped with offers of books and reality shows about his lifes...
More than 18 publishers have expressed interest in a book that former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe is writing in an unusual dual appeal to pol...
Having stood by her good mate's side as he walked two bestsellers to the altar, Mrs. Obama is hip to the power of the pen, both in economic and political terms.
ATLANTA — Former President Jimmy Carter has written a new book on the Middle East with a title he hopes will not be as controversial as the last...
LONDON — Recession-hit booksellers are hoping for a magical boost from a new book by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. "The Tales of Beedle the...
Malcolm Mc Neill's memoir about his longtime collaboration with William S. Burroughs, Observed While Falling, is just as spellbinding as his show at Salomon Arts in Manhattan.
On the morning of September 18, 2008, Stephen James Joyce, grandson... of renowned Irish writer, James Joyce, called from France in response to a letter I sent to him some weeks before.
It's a lesson to me, the ablers and the beggars and the thieves -The Grateful Dead If you read my book, Son of a Son of a Gambler, you'll know that...
LONDON — It's not quite the Nobel Prize, but John Updike has a new literary accolade: laureate of bad sex. Updike, who has a long and graphic h...
The MOTH was founded in 1997 by novelist George Dawes Green, who sought to recreate the experience of storytelling on a porch in Georgia, while moths flew into the light bulb.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the publisher of authors including Philip Roth, Jonathan Safran Foer, Günter Grass and J. R. R. Tolkien, has temporarily s...
NEW YORK — First lady Laura Bush confirmed to The Associated Press that she is planning a memoir and has met with publishers. "I've been talkin...
Eric Scott, a former Air Force pilot and stuntman, broke a jetpacking record by zooming over the Royal Gorge in Colorado, traveling 1,500 feet at about 80 mph, and 1,200 feet above the Arkansas River.
Ann Coulter's new, previously-confidential book will assail the media for being too pro-Obama, it was revealed Tuesday. The book, Guilty: Liberal "Vi...
NEW YORK — The economy hung like a cloud over the 59th annual National Book Awards. Barack Obama was the silver lining. "It's a good time to be...
