Michael Chabon on why he loves The Phantom Tollbooth.

Max Brooks, author of World War Z will be speaking at the D.C. Jewish Community Center tonight at 8 pm. Details here.

Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed, will be reading and signing her latest work at Politics & Prose on Connecticut Avenue NW tonight at 7 pm.

Raj Patel's book Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System profiled on alternet.

The message that is so much harder to explain to Americans is that politics is necessary. People do need to get their hands dirty by getting involved in social change. There is a particularly American fantasy that we can together create a better ( Read more... )

In honor of National Library Week, EW.com presents eighteen sexy trips to the library in movies.

"Stone Village Pictures has optioned the film rights to late Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov's once-banned novel The Master and Margarita says The Hollywood Reporter."

A review of The Yiddish Policemen's Union, the new book by Michael Chabon, an alternate-history noir story.

One of my favorite authors just won the Bulgakov award at PORTAL, the Ukrainian science fiction convention. He posted about it on his livejournal. Tangentially related, I know, but still! I might have recommended his book Little, Big to a few of you a few dozen times.

"Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan are among 15 nominees the second Booker International Prize for fiction."

Author Ian McEwan discovers a brother he never knew about, a bricklayer living less than 20 miles away.