USA TODAY
"The difference is that people have sex in my books, but no one enjoys it," says Rowling. Read Bob Minzesheimer's account of Rowling's on-stage chat with Ann Patchett in New York last night, and read USA TODAY's review of Rowling's new book, The ...
JK Rowling, "adult" fiction author, jokes about "50 Shades"
Reuters
Rowling prefers to call her latest work a "novel for grown-ups," noting that she doesn't want readers confused into thinking she has moved from the magical world of Hogwarts to something more like E.L. James' wildly popular erotica books. "The Casual ...
Why Johnny Depp Launched His Own Book Imprint
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Despite fanfare over digital and electronic books, Johnny Depp plans to invest time and care in the physical look of the books in his new publishing imprint with Harper. Depp is launching the imprint with Harper and calling it Infinitum Nihil (“Nothing ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Book Within a Book: Stick Hamlet Between Your Pages
Wired (blog)
At the risk of over-thinking the project entirely, there's something very cool about seeing the collision of two kinds of book technology. The first books were scrolls (a tradition carried on today in sacred texts like the Torah); in time, the codex ...
Wired (blog)
How Do You Discover New Books?
Forbes
Oyster wants to be the Spotify for e-books, offering a new way for readers to buy books (and for publishers to sell and market them). Bookshout! wants to be your e-book library and social reading destination. Jellybooks wants you to browse book ...
Book details Cherry Point's role in Cuban Missile Crisis
Jacksonville Daily News
This photo from H. Wayne Whitten's book shows President John F. Kennedy presenting the Navy Unit Commendation to VFP-62 and VMCJ-2 pilots at Key West, Fla., on Nov. 26, 1962. VMCJ-2, a Marine squadron based at Cherry Point, and VFP-62 flew ...
New book “Colbert's America” argues Stephen Colbert's humor transcends ...
Fox News
Stephen Colbert has attracted a loyal following playing a fictional conservative talk show host offering his take on news and politics on Comedy Central's “The Colbert Report.” But as the presidential election nears, one of the Sunday talk shows wanted ...
Book Review: John Allison's The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure
Forbes
Allison is nothing if not an expert on banking and finance, and having witnessed up close the 2008 financial crack-up that rendered so much of his competition insolvent, he's written an essential book on the causes of a financial crisis that he ...
Forbes
Can 'Cloud Atlas' film compare with book?
Newsday
Recently, David Mitchell, the author of "Cloud Atlas," was sitting with Lana Wachowski, the co-director and screenwriter of "Cloud Atlas," watching their mutual movie. At some point, Mitchell leaned over and asked who wrote a particular line of dialogue.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Lackluster Book Sales, Obama and Romney's ...
E! Online
It appears that Arnold Schwarzenegger's TMI book tour didn't really do much to, well, sell books. The erstwhile Governator's heavily hyped autobiography, Total Recall—which he relentlessly hawked with a publicity-clawing media blitz that put movie ...
E! Online
Where's Waldo? The children's book character is becoming a college football ...
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
The first book in the "Where's Waldo?" series (known as "Where's Wally?" in its home country of England and most other parts of the world) was published 25 years ago this past September. Six subsequent follow-up books were released between 1988 and ...
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
TC Boyle Interview: Author Talks Writing Women, Least Favorite Classics, Chest ...
Huffington Post
I read thousands of books. I read fiction, of course, but when you're writing a novel you can't be reading other fiction because it creeps in. The hardest thing is to maintain the tone over the course of a long book, so I read a lot of nonfiction. You ...
Author helps River Woods students create their own books
Chicago Tribune
River Woods Elementary School students are on their way to becoming published authors with some guidance from an internationally known writer. Antonio Sacre, a writer, storyteller and solo performance artist, has been serving as an author-in-residence ...
A.G.: Getting your share of e-book settlement?
Philadelphia Inquirer
Buyers of e-books should make sure they'll get their fair share of a huge settlement agreed to by several of the nation's biggest publishers, advises the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office. The $69 million credit-or-refund deal applies to e-books ...
In the Land of Videobooks: A Dispatch from the Frankfurt Fair
New Yorker (blog)
Of course, the bound treasure trove of paper and ink is still celebrated, especially by the Germans—who have managed to keep the book's cost and clout high with the Fixed Book Price Agreement, which stipulates that new books cannot be discounted in ...
Colombian Prostitute Dania Londoño to Publish Book on Secret Service Sex ...
ABC News
A Colombian prostitute that gave the U.S. Secret Service a headache this spring, is once again making headlines around the world. Escort Dania Londoño has announced plans to publish a book, called Room Service, in which she talks about the sex scandal ...
ABC News
'The American Way of Eating' author to speak in Portland
OregonLive.com
Her book, "The American Way of Eating" (Scribner, $25, 318 pages), has sparked an attack by opinionated radio commentator Rush Limbaugh, who called her "wide-eyed" and an "authorette." It also landed her on a list of "food visionaries" in the current ...
OregonLive.com
How Not To Promote Your Book: A Chat With Dan Wilbur
Forbes
Jason Oberholtzer: As somebody who navigated academia by testing well and performing well in class discussions about books I had never read, I would like to first thank you for an entertaining read and then admonish you for letting out so many of our ...
Writer Wednesday: Tips On Discussing Your Self-Published Books
Huffington Post
However, if your book is not among those highly acclaimed self-published books, literary agents might assume that you were unable to find enthusiasm for your project in the traditional market and, thus, had to self-publish. If you have self-published ...
Columbia couple write children's book about food allergies
Baltimore Sun
With those conflicting goals in mind, the couple wrote and illustrated a children's book, "Yes I Can! Have My Cake and Food Allergies Too," which was published in the spring by DragonWing Books, the publishing company owned by Lang's mother, Liz ...
Baltimore Sun
Still bringing joy after 80 years
Chicago Tribune
Rombauer's book has grown through multiple editions and generations of her family into a kitchen must-have. Known now as "Joy of Cooking" ("The" was dropped decades ago), it is still the book to turn to whether you want to bake a chess pie, braise a ...
Larry Sloan dies at 89; co-founder of 'Mad Libs' publisher
Los Angeles Times
Of the books he published, "How to Be a Jewish Mother" (1965) was a favorite. It came about after humor writer Dan Greenburg said: "I have to go and meet my shrink. I really should be doing a bookabout Jewish mothers because that's why I'm going to a ...
Book Review: Information, Communication and Space Technology
By Nancy Atkinson
Book review by Alana Hams The book “Information, Communication and Space Technology” has the potential to be 'jack of all trades, master of none,' as it promises to cover all aspects of ICT and space tech, all in 200-ish pages. ... Although at times it seems as though there is a distinct split between the Information Communication Technology(ICT) and the space tech content, the authorpresents his information in a manner which most tech heads and gear geeks would love. But this ...
Universe Today
Sheila Bair's new book
By Tyler Cowen
(Sheila ran the FDIC during the financial crisis and her book is titled Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself). The book is remarkably full of information and substantive narrative. Few books ...
Marginal Revolution
Humble eBook Bundle Raises $855,755 - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
With six days left to purchase, the Humble eBook Bundle has already raised $855,755. The Humble Bundle team has offered a collection of digital books from writers like Cory Doctorow, Paolo Bacigalupi, Lauren Beukes, Kelly Link and more, ...
GalleyCat
Book News: Mantel Wins the Booker, Beckett Directs Beckett : The ...
By Andrea DenHoed
Hilary Mantel has won her second Man Booker Prize, for “Bring Up The Bodies.” “If you got a love letter written in this hand, you would probably think of Jane Austen's Mr Collins.” A handwriting analyst examines some samples...
Page-Turner
'The Way We Ate' Bloggers Score a Book Deal -- Grub Street New York
By Hugh Merwin
Writer-photographer dynamos Noah Fecks and Paul Wagtouicz are turning their amazing blog the Way We Ate into a book. Publishers Marketplace (subscription required) says the book, to be published next fall by Touchstone, ...
Grub Street New York
Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Total Recall' Book Debuts to Soft Sales ...
By Andy Lewis
Sales of Marshall's book, which netted her $850,000, have probably been hurt by tensions between Amazon, whose publishing arm issued the book, and bricks-and-mortar stores. Many bookstores ...Nielsen Bookscan tracks about three- quarters of physical book sales in the U.S., but does not include e-books. Currently e-books constitute about half of the sales of new titles, though the exact proportion varies by book. Books. Subscribe to The Hollywood Reporter Today! share ...
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Christian Bookstores Refuse to Sell Lady Bible Book Because of ...
By Laura Beck
Unfortunately, not even the most devout are safe from the scourge of ladyparts, as Rachel Held Evans found out when a scandal erupted from God's own vagina over her upcoming book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood. In it, Evans follows ... "If Christian bookstores stuck to their own ridiculous standards, they wouldn't be able carry the freaking Bible," she wrote, adding that, despite her annoyance, she had acquiesced to the request because, hey, no author wants to risk losing sales.
Jezebel
New book about the greatest trading cards ever: Mars Attacks ...
By Mark Frauenfelder
Coincidentally, Abrams ComicArts just released a book commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Mars Attacks trading cards, which the Topps Company issued in 1962. Saunders' lurid paintings for the series depicted a horrific invasion of ...
Boing Boing
The Humble eBook Bundle Expands – Whatever
By John Scalzi
That's very awesome, but now the Bundle is becoming even more awesomer because it's adding five additional books by four of the Internet's favorite cartoonists: Randall Munroe (xkcd), Zach Weiner (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) and ...
Whatever
New Children's Book Coming: Cincinnati – Our City, Our Story ...
By FFCStaff
Tonight (Wednesday, October 17) author Louise Borden will be on hand at blue manatee children's bookstore and decafe to celebrate the official launch of a new children's book about Cincinnati, Cincinnati – Our City, Our Story. Developed by the Cincinnati Storyteller's Project, ... The book will also be available at Books by the Banks: Cincinnati USA Book Festival this Saturday from 10am – 4 pm at the Duke Energy Convention Center. Author Louise Borden will be signing copies of ...
Family Friendly Cincinnati
Librarians classify creationist books as “religion,” not “science ...
By whyevolutionistrue
The author also raises the possibility that creationists will object to this classification, causing a mini-kerfuffle in the library world. What isn't answered by the Library Journal article is whether bookson Intelligent Design, ... Meyer's latest book isn't in the catalog (something I'm sure will soon be rectified), but his older works, like Behe's, reside in the science library and sit alongside real sciencebooks. Going further, I find that while Duane Gish's infamous Evolution: the Fossils say No! is ...
Why Evolution Is True
British author Hilary Mantel wins 2012 Man Booker Prize for 'Bring ...
British writer Hilary Mantel won the prestigious Booker literary prize for a second time Tuesday with her blood-soaked Tudor saga 'Bring Up the Bodies,' which the head of the judging panel said had 'rewritten the book' on historical fiction.
IBN Top Headlines
Butler County authors participating in Books by the Banks ...
By akiefaber
Several Butler County authors will be participating in Saturday's Books by the Banks: Cincinnati USABook Festival at the Duke Energy Center Convention Center in downtown Cincinnati. ... Miami University graduates William D. Carl, Bestial: Werewolf Apocalypse; Susan Sachs Levine, author of Harriett's Homecoming: A High Flying Tour of Cincinnati; and Sandra Gross, co-author of Toast to Baby: Toast to Counting. Other featured authors include New York Times best-selling author ...
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Chat With David Shields, Author Of Books About Race In The NBA ...
David Shields has authored 14 books and has written for a wide variety of publications throughout his career. His latest book, Baseball Is Just Baseball: The ...
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The Knockoff Economy: Techdirt Book Club Chat With Kal Raustiala ...
If you haven't yet read the book, you should -- but first you can check out excerpts on the ...
www.techdirt.com/.../knockoff-economy-techdirt-book-club-c...
Chula Vista History Book Wins Three National Book Awards - Now ...
San Diego Book Award Association – Winner, Local Interest and History. Founded in 1994, the SDBAA honors the best published books and unpublished ...
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David Shields has authored 14 books and has written for a wide variety of publications throughout his career. His latest book, Baseball Is Just Baseball: The ...
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The Knockoff Economy: Techdirt Book Club Chat With Kal Raustiala ...If you haven't yet read the book, you should -- but first you can check out excerpts on the ...
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Chula Vista History Book Wins Three National Book Awards - Now ...
San Diego Book Award Association – Winner, Local Interest and History. Founded in 1994, the SDBAA honors the best published books and unpublished ...
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