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Margaret Atwood on Serial Fiction and the Future of the Book
Margaret Atwood, the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Blind Assassin (for which she won the Booker Prize), is no stranger to innovation. She writes about what the world could be—although it’s often what the world could …
Author Junot Díaz Among 2012 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellows
The arts are well represented in the list of 23 recipients of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the so-called “Genius Grant” that awards $500,000 over five years to individuals whose future work the …
J.K. Rowling: More Harry Potter Possible
With today’s publication of J.K. Rowling’s first foray into grown-up fiction, The Casual Vacancy, you’d think the Harry Potter author would be having a muggle-centric news day. But, even as The Casual Vacancy bows, Rowling has …
J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy: We’ve Read It, Here’s What We Think
It’s not really possible to open The Casual Vacancy without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There’s no point pretending they’re not there. I know I had a lot of, …
J.K. Rowling and 6 Other Children’s Authors Who ‘Graduated’ to Adult Books
J.K. Rowling’s new novel, ‘The Casual Vacancy’, hits shelves tomorrow. How will the author’s foray into adult lit stack up against these other beloved children’s authors?
Lee Child on His New Thriller, Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher and Wandering Heroes
“They’re all page-turners, but this one really goes hell to leather.”
No Easy Day Bumps Fifty Shades From Top Spot
Book buyers make war, not love
Cyndi Lauper Talks Memoirs, Music—And Seders with Springsteen
“Everything in life that you don’t understand opens up to you as you live.”
Painting Pop Culture: Artists Turn to Star Wars and Fairy Tales for Inspiration
10 Lightning-Speed Celebrity Memoirs: How Soon Is Too Soon?
It seems like just yesterday that Gabby Douglas was doing back handsprings. Now, she’s writing a memoir, due out in December. Who else rushed to the presses after making a name for themselves?
Judy Blume Reveals Breast Cancer: “I’ve joined The Club”
The award-winning author revealed this morning that she recently underwent a mastectomy
Life Lessons from Bob Dylan
“Bob Dylan is, in the best sense of the word, a careerist.”