Books Rule Comic-Con Yeah!

from Publisher’s Weekly No Lack of Major Prose Houses at Comic-Con By Rich Shivener From samplers and author panels to signings and galleys of science fiction and fantasy novels, major book publishers such as Penguin Random House and HarperCollins are once again...

The Revenge Of Frey

from Publishers Weekly BEA 2014: Big Children’s Books at BEA By Diane Roback, Carolyn Juris, John Sellers, and Matia Burnett Endgame by James Frey is HarperCollins’s big YA title of the show; it releases in September with a one-million-copy first printing....

Jim Brosnan Gone

from The New York Times Jim Brosnan, Who Threw Literature a Curve, Dies at 84 By BRUCE WEBER Jim Brosnan in Chicago in 1964. “The Long Season,” his groundbreaking 1960 book, began as a diary. Credit Associated Press Jim Brosnan, who achieved modest baseball success as...

“With that tush, who’d need to be literate?”

from The NY Daily News Olivia Wilde responds to GQ film critic claiming she is too hot to portray a writer: ‘Kiss my smart a–’ BY KIRTHANA RAMISETTI  Olivia Wilde has a witty response for someone who claimed she couldn’t have beauty and brains. The actress...