If you were marooned on a desert island, what would you need to survive? A Swiss Army knife? Toilet paper? Moisturizer?
Author Dan Brown dismissed accusations that he stole the ideas for his best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code as "completely fanciful"
Two Florida men confessed late Wednesday night in the stabbing murder of Curious George collaborator Alan Shalleck, 76, whose body was found Tuesday in the driveway of his Boynton Beach, Fla., trailer home.
James Frey yesterday offered the first detailed explanation of why he embellished and lied about events in "A Million Little Pieces," his best-selling book: it made a better story.
Stephen R. Donaldson, author of six previous books in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, returns with the first of four new Covenant novels. In the original series, Thomas Covenant is transported to a fantastic world in which a battle for the soul of the land is being waged, and he is forced to accept his role as savior of the Land.
It's not easy to tell the world your mama was a prostitute and you spent your childhood around pimps and hos.
But that's exactly what Haki Madhubuti, Chicago poet, professor, activist and publisher, shares in YellowBlack: The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet's Life (Third World Press, 253 pages, $22.95).
Ask Canadian novelist, critic and poet Margaret Atwood a quirky question, and you are bound to get a playful answer.
Atwood, for instance, says she often is asked why there are so many images of washrooms, glass jars and mushrooms in her work.
When news broke on the Drudge Report in early October that Louis J. Freeh, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was publishing his memoirs the following week - after the obligatory sit-down with Mike Wallace on Sunday night - the hype suggested a big, big book.
This list is taken from the table of contents of Banned in the U.S.A. by Herbert N. Foerstel. It shows the fifty books that were most frequently challenged in schools and public libraries in the United States between 1990 and 1992.
-Impressions Edited by Jack Booth et al.
-Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
-The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
-The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier