The big news on everyone's tongue this week has been the unfortunate decision by the Washington Post to shutter its stand-alone book review section, Book World. Book World is scheduled ... Read More

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John Updike died today of lung cancer, according to a statement from his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. The author of more than 60 books and winner of numerous literary awards ... Read More

Finalists for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced this past weekend. The five finalists in each category are: Fiction: Roberto Bolaño, 2666. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Marilynne Robinson, Home, Farrar, ... Read More

A freak flood puts a trio of slacker roommates on the Portland, Oregon streets with their ungainly orange couch. When the couch proves to be magic, furniture disposal morphs into ... Read More

Testimony opens with a shocking description of child pornography that may leave Anita Shreve's regular audience gasping for air, and perhaps even reaching for one of her previous novels to ... Read More

Barack Obama's inaugural address was followed immediately by Elizabeth Alexander's stirring inaugural poem, "Praise Song for the Day": Praise song for the day. Each day we go about our business, walking past ... Read More

The Story Prize is a $20,000 literary prize which annually honors the author of an outstanding collection of short fiction, written in English and first published in the U.S. The ... Read More

Released just in time for President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, The Nation Guide to the Nation might be the best book to help the new president's supporters find others united in ... Read More

The Best American Nonrequired Reading features fiction, nonfiction, journalism, comics, and humor, and is doubtlessly the most eclectic of Houghton Mifflin's Best American series. It grew out of the 826 ... Read More

The Morning News officially announced the contenders this week for the fifth annual Tournament of Books. Sponsored by Powells.com, the Tournament of Books takes 16 of the year's best books and ... Read More

As this comic tour de force says, "A family of thirteen in modern-day India was a disaster, a game of marbles that had lost its marbles ... a pack of ... Read More

I just heard this great NPR interview with Peter Manseau about his first novel, Songs for the Butcher's Daughter. Manseau is known for Vows, a memoir of having been raised ... Read More

This week, the Penguin Podcast features Sloane Crosley, author of I Was Told There'd be Cake. Crosley talks about her writing habits, how she came to write her book of ... Read More

Scribner announced this week that it will be publishing first lady Laura Bush's memoirs, following a tradition that has included memoirs from Hillary Clinton, Betty Ford, Nancy Reagan, Rosalynn Carter, ... Read More

Not merely about sports, the sports journalism essays in The Best American Sports Writing 2008 are about the sports figures they catalogue, people with their foibles and finery laid bare.. ... Read More

Julian Barnes is an incredible thinker and an incredible author. In Nothing to Be Frightened Of he weaves his personal experience and the experience of French and British writers and ... Read More