J.K. Rowling's book of five fairy tales, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, just became available for pre-order on Amazon.com. Rowling originally handcrafted six copies of Beedle the Bard as ... Read More

Michael Ondaatje will always be known as the author of The English Patient, a hit as a novel and then as a movie. With his newest novel, Divisadero, he has ... Read More

Shadow of Power, Steve Martini's ninth Paul Madriani legal thriller, takes the defense attorney from a California courtroom to the pursuit of a missing Supreme court justice in a smart ... Read More

On July 17, Kay Ryan became the 16th U.S. Poet Laureate. Just what is a poet laureate anyway? What do they do? Time Magazine's Sarah Fay took this recent changing ... Read More

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." Randy Pausch played his hand well. In life the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist achieved his dreams, ... Read More

The men in Wifeshopping have ideas about what they want in a soul mate, or what they think they should want. They may even have fiancees or girlfriends. But in ... Read More

With the release of The Dark Knight in movie theaters this past weekend came the trailer for the forthcoming movie version of Watchmen, the critically acclaimed graphic novel by Alan ... Read More

Legacy of Ashes won the 2007 National Book Award for Nonfiction and is a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at ... Read More

Sloane Crosley has heard every Ferris Bueller's Day Off joke (for a grand total of 3,567 times) about her name. She attended a Christian-based summer camp for eight years, despite ... Read More

I am always fascinated by where, when, and how other people write. I think I believe that by accumulating this knowledge from various people - friends or strangers - I ... Read More

The James family, one of America's most brilliant yet troubled dynasties, gave the world three famous children: one of America's literary giants (Henry James), an early theorist in the field ... Read More

Why is nasal congestion is like an erection inside your nose? What are the nonsexual health benefits of orgasm? And why, pray tell, are the rats in Dr. Ahmed Shafik's ... Read More

Andre Dubus III is the author most recently of the best-selling novel, The Garden of Last Days (2008) and the National Book Award finalist, House of Sand and Fog (1999). ... Read More