As the popularity of audiobooks has surged, there are a number of venues for purchasing recorded books in tape, cd, and download form. LibriVox is one of several recent ... Read More

Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz died today in Cairo at the age of 94. He wrote more than 30 novels and in 1988 became the first Arab writer to ... Read More

The first "officially sanctioned" sequel to Peter Pan will be published by Simon and Schuster in October. From today's NY Times, here's a synopsis of Peter Pan in Scarlet: "Peter Pan ... Read More

Mark Haddon, author of A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is back with his second novel, A Spot of Bother, surrounding a mild retiree by the name ... Read More

It Takes a Nation, MoveOn.org's first-person history of Hurricane Katrina, will be released on August 29, the one-year anniversary of the storm. With a support from Barack Obama, Norman Mailer, Naomi ... Read More

In seventh-century China, during the great Tang dynasty, a young girl from the humble Wu clan entered the imperial gynaecium, which housed ten thousand concubines. Inside the Forbidden City, she ... Read More

David Mitchell's Black Swan Green is riding high as the 5-1 favorite on the 2006 Booker Prize longlist, according to bookmakers, William Hill. Mitchell's bildungsroman is the funny and ... Read More

Today, I read two reviews of Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death, one in The New York Times and the other in ... Read More

On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter ... Read More

"We don't want customers to walk into their favorite Starbucks store and think it's become a music store or a DVD store," he says. "We're going to stay true to ... Read More

Holtzbrinck Publishers is planning an author blog program in which they plan to offer blogs to all Holtzbrinck authors free of charge and then provide the public with a centralized ... Read More

On August 3, HarperCollins launched its "Browse Inside" feature, which allows users to peruse pages from digitized books. The kickoff of "Browse Inside" includes titles by Isabel Allende, Geraldine ... Read More

"Telegraph Days turns the stereotype of Western women on its head. In doing so, it likely portrays a more accurate picture of the toughness of the women who helped settle ... Read More

Harry, Carrie and Garp, a.k.a. J.K. Rowling, Stephen King and John Irving, tonight and tomorrow night at Radio City Music Hall