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Alice Munro: 7 Things to Know About the Nobel Winner
Unfamiliar with the author? Start here
Eat, Pray, Garden: Elizabeth Gilbert on Being a Love Guru (and Hating Lawns)
The author on her passion for gardening, her unconventional marriage, and her new book, “The Signature of All Things.”
Catch This: Five Posthumous Salinger Books Reportedly On the Way
If the reports don’t turn out to be phony, that is
British Museum Gets Anonymous Donation To Buy Jane Austen’s Ring Back From Kelly Clarkson
The American Idol just wanted her British idol’s ring
Rob Sheffield’s 10 Perfect Karaoke Jams
The author of a new karaoke-inspired memoir gives us his picks
Read Books, Earn Points: A Publisher Unveils a Rewards Program
The Penguin Group experiments with a new way to generate word of mouth
California Prisoner Fights For His Right To Read Werewolf Erotica
Court considers an inmate’s love of literary lycanthropic lust
Do Book Critics Need a Code of Ethics?
The National Book Critics Circle is trying to establish best practices for their industry
Just Announced: The Oddest Book Title of the Year
Talk about a mouthful!
On the Physical Abuse of Books
Dog-eared pages, bent bindings, scribbled-in margins… Books were meant to be loved—aggressively
David Quammen Talks Life on the Front Lines of Virology
Back in 2003, a new virus that would be called SARS jumped from a bat to a civet cat to human beings, eventually infecting thousands and killing nearly 800 people. That’s just one example of the threat that animal microbes can …
National Book Awards: Junot Díaz, Dave Eggers, Robert Caro Among Finalists
The 20 finalists for the 2012 National Book Awards were named this morning by David Steinberger, chairman of the board of the National Book Foundation. The winners in each of the four categories (fiction, nonfiction, poetry and …