The LA Times Jacket Copy report lets us in on a highly coveted ticket — the Patti Smith / Dave Eggers double-bill at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival. The… Read more »

REPORTER: Do you find your second novel coming slow? MISS LEE: Well, I hope to live to see it published. (From the transcript of press conference published in Rogue magazine… Read more »

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 »

  Via GalleyCat. Literary scandals, a showdown between two bestselling authors, dueling Asian charities, a revolutionary new electronic reading platform startup, and a free content promotional giveaway straight out of… 4 / Read more »

“I wish I could still subscribe to the Death of the Author theories I glommed onto so readily in college,” writes Ryan Chapman at his blog Chapman/Chapman, but the author’s… Read more »

A new book may answer, once and for all, the question raised by several other books and, of course, that movie that was half great, half awful: Was Julia Child… 2 / Read more »

For twenty years, Columbia University professor Manning Marable worked on the book that, as a New York Times story by Larry Rohter notes, “he considered his life’s work: redefining the… Read more »

According to a London Observer story by Robert McCrum, the Scottish novelist and London Review of Books contributor Andrew O’Hagan will ghostwrite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s book. O’Hagan has been… Read more »

A trove of unpublished writings by Malcolm X — including journals he kept in the year leading up to his assassination — is being kept from publication by a bitter,… 9 / Read more »

After a decade of litigation, a judge has ruled that the publisher of a bestselling Holocaust memoir, Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years, by Misha Defonseca, which turned out… 4 / Read more »