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Actor Daniel Radcliffe has taken on roles that are very different from each other since he finished playing Harry Potter in the "Potter" films.

We asked nine horror aficionados - including Charlaine Harris, Jack Ketchum, Mira Grant, and Fangoria magazine-to choose the one book that keeps them up at night.

Rachel Kramer Bussel is the editor of The Big Book of Orgasms, Hungry for More, Women in Lust and many other anthologies.

Foundation Medicine, Inc. has announced that it has partnered with the Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute and Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation to launch a first of its kind, multi-center, international prospective study, the Genomics of Young Lung Cancer.

Four local filmmakers move out of their comfort zones to adapt local literature into short films, reconnecting with their roots in the process on Utter 2014 - the prelude to this year's Singapore Writers Festival.

Have you ever had that moment of discovery when you realize that a character in a book is just like you? She seems to feel exactly like you feel, and responds exactly as you would to a situation.

Book Buzz: TFIOS's streak at No. 1 ends Teen love story was No. 1 for 11 straight weeks Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1rDfUjo Your Take contributions have not been reviewed for accuracy by USATODAY.

Calls for a boycott of a prominent Turkish author of Jewish descent over Israel's assault in Gaza have been denounced by politicians in Turkey as a "hate crime."

Attention 'Fifty Shades' fans We have some very special guests in Studio 1A http://t.co/ofnW7bIGeC - TODAY July 24, 2014 Johnson: "It's not like a romantic situation.

It's been touted as the world-class centre that will cement Norwich's place on the literary map.

There's some heavy lifting for the trio of actors taking on the complete works of Shakespeare, from left, Jason Guy, Mark Irish and Paul Romero.

Ask someone who came of age in the 1980s what they remember about the movie Eddie and the Cruisers and one of the following responses is likely: It spawned the great rock-radio staple "On the Dark Side" and briefly made MTV stars of the improbably named John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band .

Halfway through this engaging and authoritative biography , I decided to interrupt my reading to look at some of its subject's many stories and novels.

Simply describing Pequot Library's weekend event as a "book sale" would be much like referring to Paris as a city with a lot of old paintings displayed in a lot of old buildings.

The co-creator of BBC Two's The Fast Show graduated from the UEA in 1980 after studying for a BA in England and American Literature with a minor in Film Studies.

LONDON: British-Indian writer and Kolkata-born Neel Mukherjee's latest novel 'The Lives of Others' that is set in 1960s Bengal and revolves around a man's extremist political activism during troubled times has been shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize 2014.

Grumblers grumble as Hollywood rolls out concept art for what amounts to rebooting Batman for the third time in recent memory.

Michael Schmidt's massive new book, "The Novel: A Biography," covers nearly 700 years of prose and hundreds of writers.

If you love books and maps, then Dorothy Collective has got the cartographical wonder for you: their Book Map features titles of over 600 books by literature's greatest authors - from Thomas Hardy to Virginia Woolf, and Tolkien to Kurt Vonnegut - in form of a street map in the style of a turn of the century London.

His goal is is to create a Bible where "The Biblical Literature [is] designed & crafted for reading, separated into four elegant volumes, and free of all numbers, notes, etc."