April 30 closes down National Poetry Month with Poem in Your Pocket Day, and you, dear reader, are invited to join in the fun. Simply pick a favorite poem - ... Read More

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Interesting eReader news: Amazon.com, who recently introduced a Kindle iPhone application allowing iPhone users to read Kindle books without shelling out the $359 for the actual Kindle, evidently purchased Lexcycle, ... Read More

In Out of My Skin, John Haskell's narrator-protagonist moves to Los Angeles to write movie reviews and, in an act of self-transformation, ends up a Steve Martin impersonator. Read more. Photo ... Read More

Author Jonathan Bate remembered your birthday and wrote you this book - Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare. Bate's book is "an intellectual biography of ... Read More

Today is Earth Day, one day a year upon which we are reminded that in the interest of planetary stewardship, we need be conscious of our everyday choices. Get active ... Read More

T. C. Boyle reincarnates Frank Lloyd Wright in The Women, a richly imagined novel that tells the architect’s story through the lens of the women he loved. Photo credit: Viking

In support of Teen Literature Day, April 16, 2009, readergirlz, GuysLitWire, YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association), and participating publishers havve organized Teen Book Drop 2009. Teen patients in pediatric ... Read More

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On Monday the American Academy of Arts and Letters announced nine new inductees into its hallowed halls, including authors Richard Price (Clockers, Samaritan) and T. C. Boyle (Drop City, The ... Read More

Writer Mark Probst noticed Saturday when his book, The Filly, lost its ranking on Amazon.com. By Sunday, hundreds of gay and lesbian books were de-ranked by the online retailer. De-ranking ... Read More

In The Thoreau You Don't Know, Robert Sullivan smashes our national myth, of Henry David Thoreau as hermit of the woods, the "secular priest of solitude," the technophobic, misanthropic, tree-hugging ... Read More

CNN has a brief interview with Walter Mosley who is launching a new mystery series with his new book, The Long Fall. The book is set in New York in ... Read More

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In 1898 a Minnesota farmer of Norwegian descent found a stone covered in runes while clearing land. The translation indicated that eight Gotlanders and twenty-two Norwegians had traveled from Vinland ... Read More

It's been a lot of years since I memorized any poetry - I memorize telephone numbers, computer passwords, the names of my kids' friends' parents - but not poetry. I ... Read More

Right, because that's what we've all been waiting for isn't it? The inevitable fusion of mobile connectivity and poetry. And it's here! In truth, while I've been awaiting this synthesis, you ... Read More

Created by The Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month brings together publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools, and poets around the country to celebrate poetry. Throughout ... Read More