In Anathem, his highly anticipated return to science fiction, Neal Stephenson focuses his world-building expertise on the creation of Arbre, a planet in another cosmos far in the future, where ... Read More

Paul Auster's newest book, Man in the Dark, creates an alternate universe in which the twin towers never toppled, the war in Iraq never began, and instead the United States ... Read More

Oprah's Book Club chose The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski this past Friday, a novel about which Stephen King said, "it is a deeply American work of literature. ... Read More

Get free audio excerpts of 2008 Booker Prize shortlist titles sent to your mobile phone by texting MBP to 60300 if you are in the UK. Outside of the UK, ... Read More

Harper's has an excellent collection of David Foster Wallace writing online including a 21 page review of Oxford University Press' A Dictionary of Modern American Usage (Wallace famously loved the ... Read More

Author David Foster Wallace who had for years suffered from depression died in his home of an apparent suicide on Friday. Wallace was most famously the author of the epic ... Read More

Sean Flannagan (no relation) has a excellent review of notebooks at deeplinking.net. Mmm... notebooks. Those of you who are writers, journalers, artists, or doodlers will identify with the kind ... Read More

Today the shortlist of six novels was announced for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. The list includes promising debuts from novelists Aravind Adiga and Steve Toltz: Aravind Adiga The White Tiger ... Read More

It's 1942. A U.S. hospital ship is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese plane somewhere in the South Pacific and the survivors, including a wounded Japanese prisoner and two ship's ... Read More

In one week, the third annual Brooklyn Book Festival will see tens of thousands of visitors from around the country participate in presentations, discussions, and readings with an impressively long ... Read More

Straying into the political only in so far as it touches the literary, galleycat points us to this interesting Time Magazine article about Sarah Palin which delves into her alleged ... Read More

Jodi Picoult speaks with the Guardian about her writing routine and gives advice to new writers.