For fifty years, Beat poet Gerd Stern has been blamed for discarding a letter that Jack Kerouac described as “the greatest piece of writing I ever saw,” a move that… Read more »

Long after her death, Agatha Christie continues to be a source of mystery and intrigue. Maria Puente writes for USA Today that a collection of Christie’s diamonds — long thought… Read more »

Fans of William Faulkner, Nobel laureate and one of the great voices in the history of American literature proved themselves shockingly sane this week. In a Tuesday auction hyped by… Read more »

There are a number of factors that might catapult an author into million-dollar book deal territory, but it-girl Lena Dunham is in a league of her own with a first… Read more »

What does it take to land a million dollar book deal lately? Well, so far in 2012 there’s been the case of the celebrity memoir (Cissy Houston, Whitney’s mother), the… Read more »

It’s finally happening. We warned you. Out of Archer City, Texas, comes Larry McMurtry’s  giant Last Book Sale. According to the Austin Chronicle: Larry McMurtry is putting two-thirds of the inventory… Read more »

An extremely rare set of watercolors by Beatrix Potter was auctioned off at Sotheby’s in London today, for a whopping £60,000, or about $95,000. The set of four watercolors (on… Read more »

A rare copy of Agatha Chrisie’s Poirot Investigates, the 1924 story collection featuring her soon-to-be-famous detective Hercule Poirot, went for a record-breaking sum at auction, according to this report in… Read more »

The cover of a rare Tintin book sold for a record-breaking €1.3 million ($1.6 million) at a recent auction in Paris, at the Artcurial auction house. Hand-drawn by Tintin’s creator,… Read more »

“Newly-discovered draft pages of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince — that may shed new, political insight on the classic book — have been put on display at a Paris… Read more »