2 hrs ago | People's Daily Online
Best-selling author Jia Pingwa sticks to rural life
By selling nearly 1 million hard copies and 500,000 ebooks of his latest novel in just five months, Jia Pingwa reasserted his status in the top echelons of Chinese contemporary authors.
3 hrs ago | The Guardian
Michelle de Kretser wins Miles Franklin literary award
Michelle de Kretser has been named winner of the 2013 Miles Franklin literary award for her fourth novel, Questions of Travel, at a ceremony in Canberra on Wednesday lunchtime.
7 hrs ago | SF Weekly
Fourne: Classic French bakery now open in Berkeley across the street from some of the Claremont's tennis courts.
11 hrs ago | Trend Hunter Magazine
Vandalized Book Campaigns - The Penguin Street Art Series Turned Book ...
Combining graffiti and literature, publisher Penguin UK launched the Penguin Street Art series.
15 hrs ago | Examiner.com
Cormac McCarthy's novel 'Suttree' labeled 'unsurpassed' literature
Examiner doesn't often venture into the "blogosphere" but accidentally caught John Sepich's take on the Cormac McCarthy masterpiece only just recently read by Examiner: "The novel is like a 470-page Tom Waits song -- blood and whiskey and men with names like J-Bone and Cabbage and Daddy Watson and Ab Jones and Hoghead and Boneyard.
15 hrs ago | CBS Local
The Eaton Collection: The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Library
Science fiction and fantasy fans rejoice and take some time to visit the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy .
16 hrs ago | Times Online
Maurice Nadeau, who has died at the tender age of 102, was, according to John Calder, writing in the TLS , "the most versatile and many-faceted figure in post-war literary Paris".
20 hrs ago | National Public Radio
The Funny (Touching, Fascinating) Pages: 5 Comics For Summer
When's the last time you read a comic book? Oh, right, the term now is "graphic novel" - as if calling them "comics" was somehow undignified or not sufficiently intellectual.
22 hrs ago | Russia Beyond the Headlines
Getting back to basics: Russian classics no longer lost in translation
'The Enchanted Wanderer" by Nikolai Leskov, released by Vintage Classics in April 2013, reveals a neglected writer's masterful evocations of restless passion.
22 hrs ago | The Day
New exhibit illustrates New London's colorful past
It may have been built in 1773, but the Nathan Hale Schoolhouse in New London has turned a decidedly 21st-century corner with its latest exhibit.
23 hrs ago | Seeking Alpha
Robert G. Hagstrom's 'Investing: The Last Liberal Art'
Robert G. Hagstrom, chief investment strategist and managing director for the Legg Mason Investment Counsel and author of eight investment books, found inspiration for this book in Charlie Munger's notion of a latticework of mental models.
Novel Approach to Meta-Analysis of Microarray Datasets Reveals Muscle ...
Elucidation of new biomarkers and potential drug targets from high-throughput profiling data is a challenging task due to a limited number of available biological samples and questionable reproducibility of differential changes in cross-dataset comparisons.
Book Buzz: DiCaprio, Scorsese tackle 'Wolf of Wall Street'
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio sit at a table at the Beverly Hills Hotel bar in 2010.
Scholar, Author James Weldon Johnson Was Born On This Day In 1871
James Weldon Johnson lives on in history and is often best-known for his leadership of the NAACP by becoming the organization's first Black manager.
Neil Gaiman in conversation - live coverage
Tonight the author Neil Gaiman will be appearing at the Peacock theatre in London in conversation with Claire Armitstead, the Guardian's literary editor.
Given the fact I loathe the word "foodie" and dislike the term "beach read" , I'm surprised I'm so excited about this list.
A rare first-edition copy of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre goes under the hammer this month.
The work, the first published novel penned by Haworth's legendary literary sister, has been given an auction estimate of between A 30,000 and A 50,000.
Graphic novels are being used as educational tools
As his classes struggle throughout the year with some denser Shakespeare passages, Brad Fennessy pulls out his secret weapon – comics.
This Blumesday Celebrates Judy, Not Joyce
Today is Blumesday. Not the Bloomsday where readers celebrate James Joyce's novel Ulysses - that was Sunday.
POLITICAL: The "(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs" has been officially lost
For every 'designer drug' the authorities ban, clandestine labs are churning out a new version.