Late tonight, after all the trick-or-treaters have gone to bed, celebrate the spooky season by settling in with a scary story. Here are a few recommendations: Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk ... Read More

Originally titled Jews with Swords, Michael Chabon's Gentlemen of the Road is a slender novel full of history and the flowery language of a period piece of this sort. It ... Read More

I knew upon reading the first paragraph that Joshua Ferris had nailed it. He utterly nails the boredom, the cynicism, and the resignation that is work in the corporate cubicle ... Read More

At a Friday night reading from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at New York's Carnegie Hall, J.K. Rowling revealed that Albus Dumbledore is gay. The revelation came in answer to ... Read More

Alex over at Enfusemagazine.com has an interesting take on the future of fiction in The Metamorphosis of Books. He's right - clearly there's a paradigm shift in the media and ... Read More

Dublin native Anne Enright won the Booker Prize yesteray (Tuesday, October 16) for her novel, The Gathering, "an unflinching look at a grieving family. It’s the bleakness of one woman’s ... Read More

Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life - boating, ... Read More

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned BookMooch in this blog, which is a great site for trading books. Now I want to tell you about another recent discovery ... Read More

Bringing together intrepid journalist Britt Montero and the Cold Case Squad, the lead characters from Edna Buchanan's two successful mystery series, Love Kills is a satisfying, two-for-one deal of a ... Read More

Today is the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the first ever artifical satellite to be put into orbit around the Earth. Russians marked the event today by erecting ... Read More

Something about Mike Engleby is not quite right. When he becomes fixated on a classmate and she goes missing, we are left with the looming question: Is Mike Engleby involved? ... Read More