There was a funny bit on NPR today about how Anne Rice (The Vampire Chronicles), a long time New Orleans resident with numerous mansions, was selling a piece of property ... Read More

George Plimpton, writer, publisher, actor, patron, and much more, died on Friday. Plimpton was an American literary hero who, among many other achievements, was a forerunner in "participatory journalism," ... Read More

Finally - a governmental initiative we can ALL get behind! As a way to encourage people to pick up a book, the Library of Congress has created third annual ... Read More

Johnson's third novel in The Woman Who series, The Woman Who Found Grace, strikes me as a book straddling the line between genre mystery and literary whodunit. That's a tough ... Read More

How to say "I love you" in 43 different languages, including Zulu and Braille; the taxonomy of cattle-branding; a table of international clothes-washing symbols; the Glasgow coma scale; and a ... Read More

Madonna's illustrated children's book, "The English Roses," hits the stands today in 30 languages and more than 100 countries. If you thought the hype around the recent ... Read More

The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters is dark, bitterly funny, strangely sexual account of two orphaned sisters living in a antique store, desperately trying to make order of the ... Read More

Thousands of bookstores and libraries nationwide will celebrate the freedom to read during Banned Books Week, September 20-27, with readings of books that have been banned from Maya Angelou’s I ... Read More

A couple months ago, Ursula K. Le Guin, queen of the fantasy realm, architect of the dragon worlds, published a book of short stories entitled Changing Planes, purported to be ... Read More