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Hollywood Hates Books: the Prequel
The new film version of 'The Three Musketeers' continues a disturbing trend in Hollywood of "basing" movies on books by taking the title and the names, then throwing out the rest and throwing in
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Banned Books Week 2011
Banned Books Week is an annual event sponsored by the American Library Association to bring attention to censorship and challenges brought on literature and to support free speech initiatives. It is held during the
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Getting ready for Bloomsday 2011
Bloomsday is one of those rare opportunities in life where you can have your cake and eat it too. It is, in fact, a holiday celebrating a book and one of the greatest expressions
Read More »At BookExpo America 2011
There was a lot happening last week, Obama’s trip overseas, Fleet Week, and for those of you Jersey Shore fans, one last GTL before going DTS for MDW (I am not entirely sure those
Read More »2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners for Letters
The winners of the 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday. Many people are familiar with the awards for journalism but Pulitzer Prizes are also awarded in music, drama, and—of interest to this article—letters.
Read More »David Foster Wallace’s final, unfinished novel to be published on Tax Day
Every year, the approach of April 15 is a cause for consternation among millions of tax paying Americans, but this year there is at least one reason to look forward to this most dreaded
Read More »James Frey to forego traditional publishing for new controversial novel
The man who pissed off Oprah in not only coming out with a new controversial novel, but a new controversial distribution model for authors
Read More »Aldous Huxley children’s book reissued
Aldous Huxley was a pretty prolific author -- he penned 12 novels, 7 short story collections, multiple books of poetry, drama and journalism -- but one area of this LSD-inspired wordsmith's work is often
Read More »Nathan Larson to publish novel
Musician and composer Nathan Larson of Shudder to Think, Swiz and 'Boys Don't Cry' fame has announced that he will be venturing into a new medium -- the written word
Read More »Tim Burton uses Twitter to create story
Tim Burton's a pretty weird dude. Sometimes, his weirdness lends to great art (see: 'Edward Scissorhands,' 'Big Fish') and sometimes it lends only to the mediocre (see: 'Alice in Wonderland'). Lately though, it seems
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