The book world plans a low-key remembrance of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Most of the works about the events will be reissues and updates of older works, from CBS News' "What We Saw" to Noam Chomsky's word-of-mouth (...)
As the publishing industry wrapped up four days of digital talk at its annual national convention, Amazon.com's Kindle was seen as the clear, if not dominant, player in the growing e-market; Barnes & Noble's Nook was considered a pleasant surprise (...)
NEW YORK (AP): The Google executive credited with helping to inspire the uprising in Egypt has a lucrative book deal.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced Monday that Wael Ghonim's "Revolution 2.0" would come out Jan. 25. The book generated strong (...)
At age 88, author Paula Fox is the settled survivor of a disrupted life.
She was abandoned as an infant, frequently moved through much of her childhood, a teen mother who gave up her daughter for adoption, a witness to the devastation of (...)
David Foster Wallace's "The Pale King," the year's most awaited and complicated literary novel, has renewed a very old debate.
Published 2 1-2 years after his suicide, "The Pale King" is a 547-page postmodern testament set in an IRS office that (...)
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has finally agreed to participate in a book about his life.
Simon & Schuster announced Sunday that Walter Isaacson's "iSteve: The Book of Jobs" will be published in early 2012. Isaacson has been working on the long-rumored (...)
Whether or not Borders survives closing some 200 stores, the "superstore" boom of the past two decades has busted, authors and publishers face a market minus millions of square feet of physical shelf space and communities once crowded with (...)
Mark Twain was the kind of man who might tell an off-color joke, then grievously apologize, who wrote stories and essays he knew would offend and kept others private for the same reason.
A century after his death, Mark Twain remains censored, and (...)
Dead men were big sellers in 2010, from Stieg Larsson and his Millennium trilogy to Mark Twain and the autobiography he wanted withheld until 100 years after his death.
Among the living, George W. Bush's "Decision Points" became a quick million (...)
The crowd sang happy 175th birthday to Mark Twain before the lights went down at the Clemens Center, then laughed along with the nearest incarnation of the late author and humorist: Hal Holbrook.
The 85-year-old actor once again put on his white (...)
Like the first line of a novel, the idea for a letter could occur to Saul Bellow at any time. The words might have come on a daily walk or during a drive to the grocery store. Perhaps he had just finished a bath, a bubble bath, or awakened in the (...)
Nora Ephron is thinking about algorithms.
She wonders what they are. It's one of those concepts, such as Twitter and heavy metal, that exist only to remind her she has lived too long. Unsure of her own definition, she takes a little nip from that (...)
Former President George W. Bush has written a blockbuster.
Bush's "Decision Points" sold 775,000 copies through its first week of release, Crown Publishers, an imprint of Random House Inc., announced Tuesday. An initial print run of 1.5 million (...)
Push the play button and hear the famous teenager's lament. It is recited in a sly, middle-aged twang, like an adult reading in a grade school classroom, one about to be told that the grown-up world is a nest of phonies.
"I mean I've left schools (...)
President Obama is still a hit with the nation's book buyers.
Obama's tribute to 13 American ground breakers, "Of Thee I Sing," was in the top 25 on Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com as of Wednesday morning, less than two days after the children's (...)
Early this summer, David Mamet turned on the telecast of the Tony Awards, for which his play "Race" had received a nomination for best featured actor. After a few minutes, and the long kiss between host Sean Hayes and "Promises, Promises" co-star (...)
Pat Conroy says he knows so little about e-books that he didn't realize his work could be downloaded until a fan showed him during a recent promotional tour.
"I was at a signing in Georgia, and a guy came up to me with a Kindle and he (...)
Put Angelina Jolie's face on a magazine cover and sales will surely rise. Get her to write a memoir and it would be worth millions. But write a book about her, without her cooperation, and you're taking a chance.
Coming a week after the release (...)
Billy Collins, one of the country's most popular poets, had never seen his work in e-book form until he recently downloaded his latest collection on his Kindle.
He was unpleasantly surprised.
"I found that even in a very small font that (...)
The coffee is strong, the wine a dry red poured from a tall, swanlike beaker. On a sunny afternoon at his apartment near Dupont Circle, Christopher Hitchens holds up a Marlboro Light between cigar-shaped fingers and discusses the hitch of writing (...)
Lynn Redgrave, an introspective and independent player in her family's acting dynasty who became a 1960s sensation as the unconventional title character of "Georgy Girl" and later dramatized her troubled past in such one-woman stage performances as (...)
JD Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose The Catcher in the Rye shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91.
Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author s (...)
The judges, apparently, could not help themselves.
Just two days after a Nobel Prize official worried the literature committee was too Eurocentric, the winner for 2009 was Herta Mueller, a Romanian-born writer once censored in her native (...)
The actors made famous by writer-director John Hughes are extolling his talents after his death, calling him influential and one of the giants for capturing the youth market in the 1980s and 90s with such favorites as The Breakfast Club, Ferris (...)
Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of Angela s Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of woe about his impoverished Irish childhood, died Sunday of cancer.
McCourt, (...)