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...

Fifth Avenue, 5 AM

from HarperStudio Fifth Avenue, 5 AM The images of Breakfast at Tiffany’s are branded into our collective memory: we can see Audrey Hepburn stepping out of that cab on the corner of 57th and 5th, and we can picture her again with George Peppard, huddled in an alleyway...