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Stephen Leacock Nonsense Novels New York Review Books ISBN 1-59017-118-7 Originally published in 1911, Stephen Leacock's little volume of shorts spoofing established literary forms-the ghost story, the armchair ...

Stanford students can attend athletic events, musical performances, plays and movies without leaving campus.

One hundred and seventeen years after his first appearance in print, in the pages of Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887, fans and nonbelievers alike seem to feel compelled to try to explain Sherlock Holmes's ...

Novelist Kazushige Abe has won the prestigious Akutagawa literary award for his novel, "Grand Finale," organizers of the major event said on Thursday.

Grisham. Doubleday, 368 pp., $27.95. Readers of popular fiction, like consumers of fast food, value consistency more than other attributes of their chosen fare.

Most of those New Year's resolutions will be broken several weeks before Groundhog Day.

Author Michael Crichton poses at The Peninsula Hotel in New York. In Crichton's new book, 'State of Fear,' he questions global warming in the thriller about eco-terrorists who plot a series of natural disasters ...

Book ideas often stem from the mundane to the extraordinary events in an author's life.

Some of Peter Straub's contemporaries in popular fiction have responded to the aging of their careers by expanding the universes (and increasing the page counts) of their novels.

Authors often compare writing a book to bringing a child into the world. Hearing an author speak in person is, to borrow the metaphor, a unique opportunity to see how an author resembles his work and to learn ...

If you make your way through the old stone doorway, and past several boxes of books you will find a few dedicated people.

LIKE SILVER fish in a recently opened though musty old book, the contemporary Jamaican fiction writer has found herself exposed to light.

It's taken a while, but inevitably the events of Sept. 11, 2001, have found their way into popular fiction.

Alexander McCall Smith has become one of those commodities, like oil or chocolate or money, where the supply is never sufficient to the demand.

Julian Rathbone has always set subversively right the things most popular fiction is content to leave wrong.

It's not all about hearts and flowers anymore. With workshops such as "Kick-Ass Heroines and the Plots that Love Them" and "Setting the Scene at the CIA," the upcoming New Jersey Romance Writers Conference will ...

Oh, hell. We re not alone. Plug "Travis McGee" into Google, and you ll get fan site after fan site, many of them excellent.

That said, it's still interesting to compare the most recent Post bestseller list with the one from The Post of July 20, 1969.

Over the fourteen years of Walter Mosley's publishing career, during which he has turned out 19 books, Mosley has experienced segregation and discrimination - in the bookstore.

PAUL Bremer, who stepped down as Ambassador to Iraq two weeks ago, has begun meeting with New York publishers about writing a memoir of his life and his experiences in the Middle East.

Hugh B. Cave, a popular fiction writer whose career spanned nine decades and covered nearly every genre, died on Sunday at 93.

Hugh B. Cave, a popular fiction writer whose career spanned seven decades and covered nearly every genre, died Sunday.

One of the interesting things about the present moment in U.S. literary history is that the tough, fibrous membrane that used to separate literary fiction from popular fiction is rupturing.

In recent years, LDS fiction has increased in both quantity and quality, said Robby Nichols, vice president of marketing for Covenant Communications.

Cheerfully acknowledging the multicultural reality of today's Charlotte, the Novello Festival of Reading will have as its headliner this fall author Isabel Allende, whose books are ...

The ending of a novel is much like the final inning of a baseball game: The fans are on their feet, cheering you on, hoping for a satisfying outcome.