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Nov 22 2010: Norris Church Mailer, a woman bred in the rural poverty of Arkansas who married Norman Mailer and managed his career and family life over three decades while carving out her own niche as a writer, died of cancer on Sunday at her home in Brooklyn Heights. She was 61.
Nov 18 2010: This year's National Book Awards winners were announced last night.
Arguably the biggest surprise of the evening was Jaime Gordon's win in the Fiction category for Lord of Misrule, which beat Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America,
Nicole Krauss's ...
Nov 15 2010: The backlash continues regarding Amazon's handling last week of a controversial Kindle book offering advice to pedophiles
Nov 12 2010: Newsweek magazine is merging with news website The Daily Beast, it has been announced.
It will bring together one of US publishing's oldest names with one of its newest, under the stewardship of former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown.
Newsweek, established in 1933, ...
Nov 12 2010: This week, The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud won the Giller Prize which honors the best of Canadian writing, but don't expect to find print copies of the book flooding shelves anytime soon - tiny publisher Gaspereau is running at max, hand printing just 1000 ...
Nov 10 2010: Ten years in the making, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - a beautiful but harrowing work of non-fiction by Rebecca Skloot - has won the second Wellcome Trust Book Prize worth 25,000 UK pounds (about US $40,000)
Nov 10 2010: Johanna Skibsrud is the winner of the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, worth Canadian $50,000 honoring the best in Canadian literature.
Her voice quavering, the 30-year-old Nova Scotian thanked her publisher Gaspereau Press, which brought out her first novel, The ...
Nov 02 2010: English teacher Shelley Evans-Marshall gave her ninth-grade class an assignment featuring the American Library Association's list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books - and lost her job because of it.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio ...
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