On The Road, the Kerouac movie property that languished under the control of Hollywood legend Francis Ford Coppola for three decades finally broke out of development hell and laid an egg along with t...
"Some time ago, in the last century and in what now seems like a personal universe that is far, far away," veteran newsman Danny Schechter writes in the foreword to his newest book, "I wa...
The following is an excerpt from "The Night of Broken Glass: Eyewitness Accounts of Kristallnacht" [Polity, $25.00], edited by Uta Gerhardt and Thomas Karlauf: Born in the Rhineland in 1894; ...
"What Would Jane Do?" is a go-to question among Austen fans. Whatevers most sensible, we assume. But if she were alive today, how would Jane vote? Would the champion of marrying for love supp...
Philip Roths Portnoys Complaint was a prodigys most sensational fiction, not coincidentally about a prodigiously articulate hero. We remember Alex Portnoy impaling with pitiless thrusts invasive moth...
What is multiculturalism in the modern era and what were the mistakes we learned from the past? Canadian authors and HuffPost bloggers Irshad Manji and Tarek Fatah join Indigos CEO Heather Reisman to...
Oh dear. Perhaps we should be more careful what we wish for. Only a few days ago we were running around like toddlers at Christmas raving about Twitters latest literary hashtag, #LessInspiringBooks. ...
Ten years after taking readers into the cutthroat world of fashion media, The Devil Wears Prada is getting a sequel. EW.com exclusively reports author Lauren Weisberger is working on a second book, R...
Doctor and CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta sat down in Toronto recently with Indigos CEO Heather Reisman recently to discuss his new book, Monday Mornings. Guptas novel is a look inside the high-press...
"DONT INCENSE the king, sir. You know what Thomas More used to say: If the lion knew his own strength, it were hard to rule him." So speaks the character Richard Riche in a new novel about He...
Does everyone do it? Or has everyone done it? The answer is yes! For some people, masturbation is actually the high point of their day. The celebrated gynecologist Hector Treub put it succinctly: Wev...
NEW YORK -- Christina Mercado didnt have any luck finding work after she graduated from Georgetown University with a masters in business administration in 2011, so she decided to write and illustrate...
Last night a new star of fiction was born out of an ancient story. In a quiet room in the back of Londons Southbank Centre, where moments before she’d been awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction for he...
According to the Internet, I am 100 percent Reform Jew. This came as something of a surprise to me since Im a Muslim. Let me explain. In the wake of Sept. 11, I was invited to contribute an essay to ...
Recently HuffPost Religion put a call out to our community about books on Paganism that every Pagan and those interested in the varied strands of Paganism should read. The result is this great list o...
Its been a big week for John Cooper Clarke. After a fantastic interview with the Guardian, the punk poet from Salford starred in BBC Four documentary Evidently... John Cooper Clarke - suddenly, the r...
Stephen Kings publishers have released details of his next book. Case Crime, the award-winning line of pulp-styled crime novels published by Titan Books, has said it will publish Joyland in June 2013...
Over the course of my publishing career, friends have encouraged me to write a thriller: "How hard can it be?" Even my late mother used to say, "Write something like those books on the be...
I asked people what their favorite drug memoir was on Facebook, and my comments feed started to burn. "Go Ask Alice! A classic!" Junkie. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Naked Lunch. Trainspo...
If we could summon anything on the internet, were pretty sure it would be this. YouTube masterminds Jeremy Scott and Chris Atkinson -- the duo behind "Transformers: Just The Transforming" -- ...
A new picture of Christian Bale emerges in a just-released biography by his former publicist and assistant, Harrison Cheung. Christian Bale: The Inside Story of the Darkest Batman, published May 29 o...
This past weekend we began reading Erin Morgensterns "The Night Circus" at home, at the office and on the beach. Even though weve just barely cracked open the book (weve read up to page 65, t...
NEW YORK -- Leo Dillon, the groundbreaking illustrator who collaborated with his wife, Diane, on dozens of books for kids and adults and became the first African-American to win the Caldecott Medal f...
By Elyse Barrere, Young Adult Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library When youre a teenaged book lover summer reading is the best reading! The freest reading! Its staying up all night under the covers ...
A good mystery -- fact or fiction -- always piques my interest. This probably has to do with my former career in law enforcement. Yet, mysteries are extremely popular among non-police folk. I knew co...
With the World Shakespeare Festival underway in London, The Bards most popular plays, Othello amongst them, are coming under renewed scrutiny. Since it was first performed by Shakespeares theatre gro...
In the late 1980s, I had a breakthrough realization about life balance that resulted in my first books, "Enough is Enough" and "Inner Excellence." In brief, I was among a vanguard of ...
Gift cards arent always a sure bet when it comes to gift giving. Two Borders gift card holders are learning this the hard way as they fight to redeem old cash from the bookstore chain, which shuttere...
Acclaimed screenwriter Aaron Sorkin earned himself an Academy Award in 2011 for "The Social Network," a feature film that dramatized the founding of Facebook. Now, Sorkin is once again re-imm...
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