This is a small, intimate novel about an exceedingly well-educated concierge in a Paris apartment building and her relationships. Here are five reasons I think this book is essential reading for grown ups.

Elizabeth Gilbert's blockbuster memoir "Eat Pray Love" is headed to the big screen with big star Julia Roberts in August. On Thursday, Universal released the first trailer for the film. The movie seems to have some of the appeal of....

The problem with ebooks so far is that they're books first, and the electronic bit is an afterthought. Basically the ebook paradigm has been to...

What a difference one bookstore can make. In less than two years, a small bookstore housed inside the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles...

Peter Miller, a publishing professional and used bookstore owner, wrote about the SXSW Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, for Jacket Copy. There was no missing Jaron Lanier at SXSWi in Austin. He's one of the most revered legend...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! It was the time of St. Patrick himself to which author Thomas Cahill refers in the title of his book, "How...

Five authors -- including a man -- are shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award, which gives $35,000 for "the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the stat...

Washington (CNN) -- Just months after the 9/11 attacks, the United States appeared to have its biggest catch in the newly launched war on terror....

Tony Judt’s new book is a dying man’s sense of a dying idea: the notion that the state can play a significant role in its citizens’ lives without imperiling their liberties.

The Death Squad Real-Estate Agent No one remembers who first saw him in the neighborhood, but Emile Maceus was nearly cer­tain that Emmanuel "Toto" Constant--the...

NEW YORK — Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei (ehl-BEHR'-uh-day) is writing a memoir about his years as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency,...

HTMLGiant asks an important question: does your life suck (normal life) or blow (writer’s life)?

Families buying boxes of Cheerios will find a prize inside -- not a plastic whirligig or sticker set, but a brand-new children's book....

Pria and other kind folks have forwarded me this audio link to the BBC’s radio play of the week, Clarissa, by Samuel Richardson. The part of Robert Lovelace is read by Richard Armitage - which will send many hears a-fluttering. It...

Yesterday I attended an author event at the National Security Law Center at Georgetown Law School. Nancy Sherman presented her book The Untold Story:...

Michael Lewis came on "The Daily Show" last night to talk about his new book, "The Big Short," about the few investors who bet against...

REGINA -- Calling it "a good day for victims of crime," Saskatchewan's justice minister applauded a court decision ordering killer-turned-author Colin Thatcher to turn over...

The inspiration behind this post is a gentleman of about sixty, who, when checking out a book by graphic memoirist Jeffrey Brown at the Circulation Desk told me, “This guy tells it like it is. Life is like this – he’s my hero.” I in...

Brigitte Aiton, Age 44 New York, New York “How do you deal with the fact that the person you’re with might hate you?” It was the first summer we were together. We were twenty-three years old. I felt like I met the most amazing per...

It's the 35th edition of the Hatecast. In honor of the occasion, Amelie Gillette and Onion News Network writer/director Lang Fisher did their best JFK impressions for 35 wisely unrecorded minutes before discussing Mike Tyson's passi...