Motivated by her own childhood wounding when she learned the "truth" about Santa, Arita Trahan wanted her children to have a Santa that would never le...
Alice Schroeder | Posted 11.12.2009 | Books
Buffett had indeed learned through experience that "when in doubt keep holding"; he said, "I've made most of my money sitting on my ass."
Wired | Alexis Madrigal | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
Take an antique leather-bound book, open it up, and inhale deeply. There's just something about that old-book smell. And thanks to a new analytical ch...
The New York Times | DWIGHT GARNER | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
Mr. Sullenberger made a good choice to land on the Hudson. But his actual control of Flight 1549, Mr. Langewiesche writes, was "less reflective of unu...
John Mesjak | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
I asked some of the independent booksellers that I work with to choose a book that, for whatever reason, is overshadowed but still awesome.
The Washington Post | Joe Yonan | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
It was the broccoli that stopped Judith Jones in her tracks at the White House farmers market, and then again at a Whole Foods Market a half-mile away...
The Poetry Foundation | Stephen Burt | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
Stephen Burt The Poetry Foundation If you follow contemporary poetry but you haven't been following "Project Runway," the popular cable TV show now i...
Joshuah Bearman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
Like David Foster Wallace, Saunders appears in his own journalism as the bumbling journalist, but Saunders is more believable, which is to say that he is a bumbler, which is part of the charm.
Nathan Bransford | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
Editors want to take authors to the next level or make a splash with a debut. Publishers want to gain traction with new electronic formats. Sales and marketing teams want to make a splash. Everyone is desperate for a hit.
The New York Times | CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
Spoonbill & Sugartown Booksellers observed its 10th anniversary Tuesday morning with a ceremony on the sidewalk in front of the shop, on Bedford Avenu...
AP | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A California publicist and two co-authors have terminated a book deal with a former aide of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. ...
Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
In honor of Veterans Day, we've put together a list of 10 great American war books. These range from the timeless classics to the modern, from those t...
Huffington Post | Steve Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
The following is a continuation of a Huffington Post interview with author Mary Karr on her new memoir, "Lit." You can read the first part here. Hu...
Stephanie Freid-Perenchio | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
After the events of 9/11, I realized that the world of Navy SEALs was still shrouded in secrecy. I wanted to explore and shed light upon this culture that most people had never seen nor fully understood.
Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
I can clearly see my house, or the beginnings of my house, in the far background of a 1903 postcard of the First Christian Church in Berryville, Arkansas.
The Guardian | Stuart Jeffries | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books
"They simply treat books as a commodity," says Nicholas Spice, publisher of the London Review of Books, and one of the chain's sternest critics. "Ther...
npr.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books
NPR has a host of great author interviews every week, and we thought we'd bring you the best of the recent ones. Listen below for three really great o...
Dallas Morning News | Douglas Brown | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books
Movies are pushing it, television shows are plotting it, books and Web sites have sprung from its fertile soil. The subject: Dec. 21, 2012. That's th...
Steve Leveen | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
Book love is a lot like romantic love. It's a feeling, either at work or at play, of being beckoned by your book so the two of you can be together again.
abcnews.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books
Stephen King appeared on Good Morning America this morning to discuss his new thriller, out today, "Under the Dome," which he says can be read as a me...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
All this week, Miami is celebrating the world of literature with its annual Book Fair. Running from November 8 - 15 and open to the public for a small...
Paul Berry | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books
There is a cool new widget appearing today at the bottom of book articles, going site-wide next week, and we're really excited about bringing it to you.
The Huffington Post | Steve Ross | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books
The brouhaha that flared last week when "Publishers Weekly" announced its list of Top Ten Books of the Year, a list that garnered probably unwanted bu...
Joseph Kanon | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books
You can see authors smiling on our websites, taking questions on our publisher's web page, chatting on Facebook. And now the author video.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books
Foer's taken a three-year respite from writing fiction to probe the question of whether we should eat animals -- with this research and writing task triggered by his meditation on what to feed his first child.
Tom Matlack | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media