If one good thing comes from the recent Republican takeover of the House of Representatives and near-takeover of the Senate, it’s a pretty sure bet that art, literature, and music… 4 / Read more »

What feats of derring-do won’t authors with a new book out not try? Just contemplating this latest sends chills down my spine. Joe Flint, on the Los Angeles Times Show… Read more »

Matthew Honan holds A.J. Jacobs responsible for the rise of “stunt books” — “like when you read the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica and wrote about it in your best-selling book The… Read more »

The following post by Edward Jay Epstein, author of The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies (available from Melville House, and reviewed in the Wall Street Journal… Read more »

Thanks to Stefan Fatsis over at Slate for clarifying: Here’s what’s actually happening. Mattel, which owns the rights to Scrabble outside of North America, is introducing a game this summer… Read more »

A major world-changing event rocked the literary world over the weekend. The iPad? Are you kidding? They changed the rules of Scrabble! Proper nouns are now allowed, according to a… 3 / Read more »