Literature News

Starting her writing career while serving a 10 1/2 prison sentence, and receiving advice from prison mate Martha Stewart, the official queen of street literature Wahida Clark is not putting the pencil down anytime soon.

Saving Houdini, the dust-jacket flap tells us, is Michael Redhill's first book for young readers.

Despite all the hype surrounding this year's high-brow best-seller, Capital In The 21st Century by Left-wing French economist Thomas Piketty, a survey has revealed that more than a quarter of those who picked up the 685-page tome never got past page 26, and only just over 2 percent of readers finished it.

An Azar Yazdi Award is on display after the unveiling ceremony in Tehran on July 9, 2014.

The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival, under the artistic direction of flutist Linda Chesis, opens its 16th season on Wednesday, August 6 with the concert Inspired by Italy.

An American classic was born 54 years ago today with the release of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird."

'Tearling' author on censorship and realistic heroines Erika Johansen talks her debut novel, 'The Queen of the Tearling.'

In an effort to overcome a decline in sales, and the profoundly dwindling public interest in reading, Korea's two largest book retailers Kyobo Book Center and Yes 24 set out their own unique strategies.

In the United States, the 1968 Miss America pageant was the threshold of modern feminism, wherein protesters led by Carol Hanisch fled to the Atlantic City Boardwalk and rallied against the event organization's wrong implication about women.

If you plan on going to Walt Disney Japan any time soon, you might see this Winnie the Pooh glassware designed by Nendo.

These stunningly intricate macaron designs depict characters and scenes from the classic children's novel 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardobe.'

Subterranean has posted the table of contents for the upcoming collection The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume Five: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale which features a dust jacket by Bill Sienkewicz: Philip K. Dick was one of the seminal figures of 20th century science fiction.

Herman Melville's classic "Moby-Dick" has a strong Nantucket connection and a lasting legacy that has trickled over into this century.

HEA contributor and best-selling romance author Donna Kauffman dishes on last night's 'So You Think You Can Dance.'

To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee's Pulitzer prize-winning book , is now the latest masterpiece to be reinvented as an audio book.

When a writer passes before her time, readers and fans often mourn not only the loss of her presence in the world, but the loss of the words she may yet have written.

A preponderance of rocket ships, lasers and alien raider attacks clearly marks Clayton Callahan's second novel, 'Tales of the Screaming Eagle: The Legend of Kilroy,' as futuristic science-fiction.

Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year Award , Diana Souhami with her biography and memoir of Edith Cavell at the EDP Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards.

Rare first edition of Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill A Mockingbird' donated to Oxfam book shop.Manager Janet Gilbert with the book along with a rare Victorian book on butterflies and moths which was also donated at the same time.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri will join Princeton's creative writing faculty in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Prince-ton University, but not until September of 2015.