A high school student brought a class action lawsuit against Amazon.com after the company removed George Orwell's 1984 from its customers' Kindles. Monty Python player Michael Palin announced that he ... Read More

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón's (The Shadow of the Wind) latest novel, The Angel's Game, is told from the perspective of David Martin, a Barcelona youth who makes his living as a ... Read More

Forty years ago, Apollo 11 Mission Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot upon the moon. First Man by James Hansen ... Read More

In Overqualified, Joey Comeau spins a narrative of love and loss via a most unusual vehicle: a series of letters. Not your ordinary epistolary collection, Comeau's missives are in fact ... Read More

Frank McCourt, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes, died today of cancer. Regarding his childhood, McCourt wrote, “People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, ... Read More

So what exactly is Postmodern Literature? The Los Angeles Times' Carolyn Kellogg says it's hard to pin down and yet offers a number of possible attributes such as author is ... Read More

Today, FastPencil, a California-based start-up, announced the beta launch of their self-publishing platform that purports to make the writing and publishing your printed or e-book a painless process. "Whether you ... Read More

Harper's editor Bill Wasik recounts his 2003 experimenation with flash mobs and later with Internet-based viral culture in And Then There's This, an examination of how nanostories live and die ... Read More

The National Book Foundation is celebrating the 60th year of the National Book Awards by blogging one National Book Award winning Fiction winner each day at www.nbafictionblog.org The blog ... Read More

Today, Wired editor Chris Anderson put his money where his mouth is by sharing his new book Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price, in which he posits ... Read More

Red and Me is the story of Celtic's all-star Bill Russell and his close relationship with the Celtic's legendary coach Red Auerbach. Could there have been two more unlikely friends, ... Read More

Unsurprisingly, Oprah has a few book picks for Summer - 25 to be exact and a nice assortment. Here are three I will likely pick up: A Meaningful Life by ... Read More

The BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction was yesterday awarded to Leviathan, Or The Whale, Philip Hoare's memoir of his life-long obsession and humanity's own fascination with whales. The BBC Samuel ... Read More