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Embattled author Greg Mortenson has given just two interviews since 60 Minutes and Jon Krakauer attacked the finances of his Central Asia Institute charity and his two wildly popular non-fiction… Read more »

The e-bookseller Kobo added $50 million in new funding last month (including $13 million from existing investors), according to this Paid Content report, which comments that the amounts are “pretty… Read more »

UK science fiction author Stephen Hunt is proud to call himself a ‘genre’ author. Since the launch of World Book Night last month, he has spearheaded a campaign heavily criticising… 4 / Read more »

Cobb County, GA, the county that cursed us with Newt Gingrich, biology textbooks with stickers warning of evolution’s status as a “theory, not a fact” (thankfully, that one didn’t stand),… 2 / Read more »

  To coincide with the PEN  World Voices Festival which begins next week, Booker-winner Salman Rushdie has selected 13 books by famous American authors to be placed in the rooms… Read more »

Palin’s Ghost & Palin aide to publish memoir The murky water of memoir Kindle’s magically disappearing magazines Does anyone want to be “well-read?” Good book reviews are no longer enough… Read more »