Piss Off, G

from The Guardian UK Thousands of authors opt out of Google book settlement Some 6,500 writers, from Thomas Pynchon to Jeffrey Archer, have opted out of Google’s controversial plan to digitise millions of books by Alison Flood Books at the University of Michigan...

be-Holden to Catcher

from PopMatters The Catcher in the Rye: The Greatest Book of Its Time The late J. D. Salinger’s masterpiece has long been the spark of debate, but in the high school classroom it still might be the best book of its kind. On 27 January 2010 J. D. Salinger died at...

Vampire Vook

from The Denver Post Vampire author Anne Rice set to release video book By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK—Anne Rice is giving the video book a try. The author of “Interview With a Vampire,” “The Vampire Lestat” and many other...

The Lost Man Booker Prize

from AP via Yahoo! News ‘Lost Booker Prize’ to be awarded for 1970 novel LONDON – More than three decades after Iris Murdoch won Britain’s top literary award, and a decade after her death, she has a chance to win again. The author is up against 21...