Cross-X is the true and inspiring story of several inner-city teens, impoverished and abandoned by the system, who use political, philosophical, and poliscy debate to take on educational racism and ... Read More

Two years after the events of Case Histories left him a retired millionaire, former detective Jackson Brodie has followed Julia, his occasional girlfriend and former client, to Edinburgh for its ... Read More

For their November 2006 issue, Wired magazine asked science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers to take a stab at the six word story, a form inspired by Hemingway who once ... Read More

Call him Richard Bachman or Stephen King; call him the master of the the horror genre or one of the most prolific writers alive today; call him whatever you will, ... Read More

LibraryThing is a web site where people can catalog their books and connect with people who like the same (or different) books. LibraryThing also makes recommendations for you, based upon ... Read More

An Austin based theatre company, Rude Mechanicals, is producing a theatrical adaptation of David Rees' hilariously satirical, clip-art comic, Get Your War On. Check out: More on the GYWO production from Maude ... Read More

Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain was a huge success - a National Book Award winner that was made into a blockbuster movie. Readers have waited a decade for Frazier's second ... Read More

Orhan Pamuk, a best-selling novelist in his native Turkey, has won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Pamuk, whose 2002 novel Snow was widely regarded as one of the best novels ... Read More

Kiran Desai won the 2006 Man Booker Prize for Fiction with The Inheritance of Loss. Desai was born in India and currently studies creative writing at Columbia University. At age ... Read More

Janet Fitch, well known for her 1999 bestselling novel, White Oleander (an Oprah's Book Club pick) is back with her third novel, Paint it Black, about a self-destructive teen runaway ... Read More

In Cross-X, Joe Miller follows a handful of students from an "academically deficient" school in Kansas City's ghetto as they challenge the nation's best and brightest in a game ... Read More

FSB Associates asked me to contribute a blog post to their Love of Reading Book Fair so I thought I'd write a little bit about how I came to write ... Read More

It was only a matter of time before publishers figured out how to meld the the appeal of internet gaming and online social networking with books. Enter Cathy's Book. Cathy's ... Read More