Each year, The Best American Series editors handpick the previous year's finest writing in short stories, comics, mysteries, essays, travel, science and nature, sports, spirituality, and nonrequired reading. The series ... Read More

Vermont publishing house, The Countryman Press, is using Twitter (countrymanpress) to disseminate the titles from their entire Fall catalog - one book at a time, in posts of 140 characters ... Read More

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Why has Sherlock Holmes captured the imagination of readers for more than one hundred years? Why, long after the death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, have writers turned to his ... Read More

On the final day of the SXSW conference, Wired magazine's editor in chief Chris Anderson told Guy Kawasaki that on July 6 his new book on "freeconomics," entitled simply Free, ... Read More

Literary awards, of course! (What did you think I was going to say?) The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the world's largest literary prize, awarding £100,000 for a single ... Read More

John Wray's novel Lowboy is about a schizophrenic teenager who has stopped taking his medication and escaped the asylum into the New York subway. The novel follows William Heller, aka ... Read More

Today is a good day. I just found out that Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife, just sold the manuscript for Her Fearful Symmetry, her second novel ... Read More

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Small Beer Press is releasing A Working Writer's Daily Planner 2010 in August - as if writers weren't easily distracted enough. According to the web site, the daily planner actually ... Read More

Edited by Salman Rushdie, The Best American Short Stories 2008 will provoke, amuse, stun and mystify readers as they carom from story to story, traveling from the mundane to the ... Read More

Tobias Wolff, widely known as a prolific short-story writer and the author of the memoir This Boy's Life, won The Story Prize for his collection, Our Story Begins. At a ceremony ... Read More

The defining characteristic of The Best American Spiritual Writing 2008 is that its poems and essays are both personal and universal. This book includes essays by and about people who ... Read More