Critics loved Cleave's previous book, Incendiary. He also has a website, where he posts the columns he writes for The Guardian. They're funny, full of gentle, sarcastic humor about his ... Read More

Wired editor uses Wikipedia content for Free. Poets and novelists cover day's news for Israeli paper (via Secret). Japanese newspaper interviews Haruki Murakami about 1Q84. Dick Cheney to publish memoir with Simon & ... Read More

Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity is the reincarnation of a piece Hugh MacLeod published years ago on his website entitled "How to Be Creative," which has been ... Read More

What are you reading this Summer? You may want to join thousands of readers (including me) in a group "endurance reading event" by tackling David Foster Wallace's massive novel, Infinite ... Read More

Flint and Silver is the first in a series of prequels John Drake is planning to the much loved children's book Treasure Island. This rollicking tale of pirates and buried ... Read More

A round-up of some of the week's book news: R.I.P. Kamala Das Nominate your favorite beach reads ever at NPR.org Listen to the eyeonbooks.com interview with Laila Lalami Can Twitter save publishing? Judge blocks J.D. ... Read More

"It began as a small flurry of poems" allegedly written by Billy the Kid, according to Michael Ondaatje's lyrical collage of poetry, photography, and fiction that make up this portrait ... Read More

Just weeks before Simon and Schuster announced a deal to sell e-books on the document-sharing website Scribd.com, this Wired article from Clive Thompson points to the book as "the last ... Read More

Opening in Shanghai in 1937 and ending some 20 years later in Los Angeles, Lisa See's Shanghai Girls is themed around the duality between a reverence for tradition and the ... Read More

Every summer for the past six years, Tin House has conducted summer workshops at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Writers come from around the country to lead seminars, panels, and ... Read More

2009 Scream Literary Festival - Toronto A Grateful Dead tour for book lovers - Nigel Beale has compiled a list of Summer literary and storytelling festivals for North America and the ... Read More

Tecumseh Sparrow Spivet is a 12-year-old cartographer living on the Coppertop Ranch just 4.73 miles North of the tiny town of Divide, Montana. His middle name is in honor of ... Read More

In The Scarecrow Michael Connelly has woven a thriller that grabs the reader and does not let go until the end. Jack McEvoy, ace newspaper reporter, and Rachel Walling, FBI ... Read More

Dave Eggers and wife Vendela Vida, who are in Chicago for the Printers Row Lit Fest this weekend, spoke with the Chicago Tribune about Away We Go, their new movie ... Read More

Jack Foley returns as the hero of Elmore Leonard's latest thriller Road Dogs, a full-throttle page-turner peopled with bank robbers, gangsters and con men. The author's fans will not be ... Read More