Unabashedly Bookish

First lines, like first dates quickly make or break an author's relationship with their potential reader. Read more...

Sex certainly sells, but how about really poorly written sex? Read more...

I spent the summer reading James Lee Burke, this country's greatest living crime novelist. In the wake of the four year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, it's Burke's Tin Roof Blowdown that's among the most elegiac looks at the disaster that claimed almost 2000 lives. Read more...

So, George Pelecanos recently did a reading in London's Boogaloo Pub to promote his latest book, The Way Home. Now, this wasn't just any old run of the mill author event Read more...

Sadly, Frank McCourt, the bestselling author of Angela's Ashes, ‘Tis, and Teacher Man, has passed away. He was 78 years old. Read more...

The Irish are currently writing the best suspense novels on the market and it has nothing to do with luck. Read more...

If words do in fact last forever, does the person who put them to paper have any rights to them once they're dead? Read more...

At the center of the most watched show in Bravo's history stood a book. Read more...

Today, we celebrate the 105th anniversary of Leopold Bloom's stroll through Dublin as envisioned by James Joyce in his classic and controversial novel, Ulysses. Fittingly, this month, an ultra-rare signed first edition of the book sold for £275,000 -- roughly $450,000. Read more...

Measuring in at just over a foot long, Agatha Christie's spine is now - according to the Guinness Book of Worlds Records - the longest in history! Read more...