- Three Cups of Tea author asks judge to toss lawsuit
- Attorneys accusing Greg Mortenson of defrauding readers in Three Cups of Tea say his case is no different from that of James Frey, who admitted he lied in his memoir A Million Little Pieces.
- Something Fierce wins Canada Reads: True Stories video
- The Canada Reads: True Stories panel has chosen Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter by Carmen Aguirre as the winning book, after a controversial four days of debate.
- Hatchet Job award goes to Cunningham takedown
- A critic who accused a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of scattering literary allusions like 'tin cans tied to a tricycle' has won a prize for the year's most lacerating book review.
- Charles Dickens fans celebrate 200th birthday video
- Prince Charles led ceremonies Tuesday to mark the 200th birthday of novelist Charles Dickens — a writer as popular today as he was during his lifetime.
- Denis Villeneuve working on Footnotes in Gaza film
- Genie-winning Canadian director Denis Villeneuve, most recently acclaimed for his searing drama Incendies, is working on adapting comic artist and journalist Joe Sacco's Footnotes in Gaza for film.
- Nobel-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska dies at 88
- Poland's 1996 Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, whose simple words and playful verse plucked threads of irony and empathy out of life, has died. She was 88.
- Robert Munsch book translated for children of Nunavut
- The Nunavut Literacy Council has published the book Just One Goal, by acclaimed Canadian children's author Robert Munsch, in the Inuit language.
- DC to launch Watchmen prequel series
- More than a quarter of a century after Watchmen intrigued readers with tales of less-than-heroic and all-too-human — save for Dr. Manhattan — crime-fighting vigilantes, DC Entertainment is revisiting them in a series of original prequels this summer.
- audio Has the death knell sounded for the bookstore?
- A Q debate between Farhad Manjoo, a Slate columnist who hails the advent of e-books as a savior of reading, and Joanne Saul of Type Books, who believes the bookstore is vital to our culture.
- Neil Gaiman, Todd McFarlane settle long-running Spawn lawsuit
- Fantasy industry giants Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane have agreed to settle their long-running legal battle over Gaiman's share of the Spawn universe.
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