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'War and Peace' will air on British radio on New Year's DayThe 10-hour radio adaptation will star actors John Hurt and Simon Russell Beale.
J.K. Rowling celebrates 12 Days of Christmas with 12 new 'Harry Potter' storiesFrom Dec. 12 to Dec. 23, Rowling is posting 12 new stories set in the 'Potter' universe on the website Pottermore.
Polish event brings 'Harry Potter' castle Hogwarts to life'Harry Potter' fans came together at a castle in Poland to act out the world of J.K. Rowling's books. More events are planned for April.
Blogger Zoe Sugg sets new record for fastest-selling debut novelSugg's debut book, 'Girl Online,' now holds the record for the highest sales in its first week for a new writer in the UK.
Taking a cue from nightclubs, 24-hour bookstores boom in Taiwan: Could they work in the US?Western booksellers might want to take a page from a Taiwan-based chain's nightclub-like approach to book retailing.
'Everything I Need To Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book' series gets two more titlesLove- and Disney-themed titles in the series by Diane Muldrow, which offers life lessons based on the Little Golden Book series, will be published.
J.K. Rowling's Harvard commencement speech will become a bookRowling's 2008 speech will be adapted as a book titled 'Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination.'
Cheaper books make for wealthier authors, insists Amazon's Jeff Bezos'The Kindle is trying to reduce friction for reading a whole book, and it’s working,' Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said at a conference yesterday.
'Moriarty': Does it live up to Anthony Horowitz's previous 'Sherlock Holmes' tale?Horowitz won over critics with his 'Holmes' book 'The House of Silk,' but his take on Holmes's greatest adversary, 'Moriarty,' has received more mixed reviews so far.
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Mark Strand: a poet both elegant and risquéStrand was a versatile poet, capable of shifting easily from the metaphysical to the wry, and embracing styles that ranged from pensive to bawdy.
P.D. James spun crime into literatureJames was behind such novels as 'Death Comes to Pemberley' and 'An Unsuitable Job for a Woman.' Monitor fiction critic Yvonne Zipp noted in a review of one of James's books that 'there are few living mystery writers more widely respected than James.'
Thanksgiving weekend was kind to some independent bookstoresOverall, Black Friday sales are said to have dropped this year, but some independent bookstores reported strong sales on Friday and Saturday of the holiday weekend, even as they celebrated the Indies First bookstore initiative.
Would men rather read men? Yes – about 90 percent of the timeMaybe we shouldn't be surprised. A Goodreads survey suggests that both men and women are strongly drawn to books by authors of their own sex.
Curious about politicos who brag and bloviate? Mark Leibovich has storiesNew York Times Magazine correspondent Mark Leibovich talks about the habits and hobbies of Washington A-listers.
Donald Culross Peattie: revival time for a once-beloved naturalist?Nine books by Donald Culross Peattie, once one of America's most popular naturalists, are being reissued.
10 writers I'm most grateful for this ThanksgivingOn this day of gratitude, let's give thanks for writers. Which authors would you put on your top 10 list?
Do you know what was taken out of the Bible?Writer Joel Hoffman of 'The Bible's Cutting Room Floor' discusses the editing that was done by the humans who compiled the Old and New Testaments.
Good book for your flight? JetBlue can provideJetBlue is adding e-books from HarperCollins to its entertainment mix. Passengers can read excerpts from new titles and then choose to purchase the rest.
Lawrence Wright's 'Going Clear' will be the basis for an HBO documentary about Scientology'Going Clear' was shortlisted for the National Book Award.
