A trove of writings by Mark Twain has been discovered by scholars at the University of California, Berkeley, Janie Har reports for the Associated Press. The prolific author lived for… Read more »

The Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were presented over the weekend in Las Vegas, going this year to Donna Tartt for her novel The Goldfinch, and Doris… Read more »

George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four has become a symbol of protest in a country where the government has become increasingly Orwellian. Following a military coup in Thailand last month,… Read more »

Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez was hospitalized in Mexico City last week, the Associated Press reports (via NPR). The writer’s son Gonzalo released a statement, in conjunction with the Secretary… Read more »

A public library in San Antonio, TX has taken the digital age to the next level, Paul J. Weber writes for the Associated Press (picked up here by USA Today), by eliminating… Read more »

Zarar Khan reported for the Associated Press this weekend (picked up here by the Boston Globe) that Malala Yousafzai’s memoir, I Am Malala, has been been in private schools across… Read more »

Ernest Hemingway wrote some of his most enduring works from his estate in Cuba, where he lived off and on from 1939-1960, but until now most of his papers from that… Read more »

Newtown may have failed to effect meaningful action on gun control, but at least the Associated Press will now be able to tell the difference between a pistol and a… Read more »