Book News
Critical 5 things to do in L.A.: pop goes the weekend, April 19-21
Whack-a-mole-weekend!
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Sheila Rock releasing photography book about punk, we can all sit down now
Punk in pix.
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Tom Hanks wants to be on the ground floor of this whole Neil Gaiman business
Bosom buddies indeed!
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British Public Library introduces Virginia Woolf, the comedian
Eat your heart out, Seinfeld.
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Stephen King promises you'll sleep with the lights on after The Shining sequel
Here's....Danny?
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The Riot Grrrl Collection gets the spine it deserves, finally a book
A re-Statement of Vindication.
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The Weinstein Company to get cozy with young adult readers
But are Harvey and Bob getting too commercial?
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Bradley Cooper to star as obsessive true crime writer in mystery adaptation
Brad done it?
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Site of the week: New Yorker gets less oblique with The Monkeys You Ordered
Why try to be clever when you can just not… >>
Publishing gets a buzz with Penguin and the Espresso Book Machine
Publishing for the 21st century.
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Tom Waits to release ultimate coolness collab of photos with Anton Corbijn
Worth the Waits.
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Gun Machine will grab your attention with eerie new book trailer
May deter late night strolls and camping.
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Indie books push and shove their way to the forefront in 2012
Almost everyone likes an underdog.
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Does The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle deserve U.S. Poet Laureate status?
All hail American poetry.
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One small step for man, one giant leap for Penguin Books
Crazy promotion shoots for the stars.
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Literary Death Match bring their crazy cool nerd-off to your living room
Think Rocky with more sweaters and glasses.
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Big Boi rocks Christmas with the Grinch, of course
Let this Outkast get you in the Xmas spirit.
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There is a book about The Smiths, it's out, and this time it's personal
So, read it, read it, read it.
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Summit Entertainment continues novel rights buying rampage
And no, it's not another Twilight.
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Lena Dunham's awesomely awkward 3.7 million dollar book proposal leaked
Thank you, Internet Gods.
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Interview famous authors, support indie bookstores without putting on pants
Take that, Amazon.
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Twitter Fiction Festival explores literary innovation 120 characters at a time
Talk about gaining a following.
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Grace Coddington's new memoir provides provocative insight into Vogue
Vogue's Michelangelo.
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Disney claims another victim: Dark Horse Comics in limbo
More at stake than another bad movie.
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Site of the week: The internet writes a novel at The Best of NaNoWriMo
Some people create, others laugh at those who create
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Louise Erdrich, old hand, and newbies win big at the National Book Awards
Bildungsroman, anyone?
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The bookish endeavors of Johnny Depp: visionary and authentic?
From "Winona Forever" to "Nothing is Forever."
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Horror comic Locke & Key tarted up, re-imagined as film trilogy
Fox's trash is always someone else's treasure.
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Developer cleverly adapts Shakespeare plays for the iPad generation
iPhone, iPhone, where for art thou, iPhone?
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Fantastical theme park based on Nobel winner Mo Yan's life in the works
Won't you take me to funky town?
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Faulkner estate full of fury over copyrights, sues Midnight in Paris
Is an "As I Lay Dying" book report lawsuit far… >>
World's thinnest house to be inhabited by Etgar Keret: it's magically realistic
Architect to get drunk for the first time.
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Blatant JD Salinger rip-off set to spark nasty legal battle
Mary O'Connell's Holden Caulfied is decidedly a phony.
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Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy publishes thoughtful worldly memoir
Or, as we like to say, "pulls a Molly Ringwald."… >>
Hilary Mantel wins Man Booker Prize, high fives for feminism
Mantel is the first woman to win the Man Booker… >>
Insert bug on the wall joke here: after long trial, Kafka papers go public
Ironic, isn't it?
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Armchair/Shotgun's all-women issue: women's work was just better this time
Take that, Patriarchy!
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Unpublished J.R.R. Tolkien poem set for tantalizing release next year
Out of the Shire and into the heart of Camelot.
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Surprise upset as Chinese poet Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Haruki Murakami bites the dust.
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National Book Award finalists announced, one-up the hype around Nobel Prize
It's a slam dunk for one of these NBA finalists.
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Paris Review app places a wealth of information at your fingertips
No airfare involved.
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Site of the week: judge a book by its cover with Better Book Titles
When tumblr does the reading for you.
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Tom Sawyer based on boozy Twain friend? Smithsonian says yes
Jonathan Taylor Thomas is not pleased.
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