- 10/13/12 /
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Marvel Reveals Secret Avengers Lineup at New York Comic Con
Get ready for the Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and his ex.
Books
- 10/11/12 /
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Chinese Author Mo Yan Wins Nobel Prize
Sorry, Murakami.
- 10/10/12 /
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Junot Díaz and Dave Eggers Among National Book Award Finalists
It's called reading, guys.
- 10/8/12 /
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Reese Witherspoon, CW Making a Modern-Day Great Expectations
Sure.
- 10/8/12 /
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The Dauntingly Competitive T.C. Boyle on His New Novel, San Miguel
"I’m too competitive — too crazily competitive — to play anything."
- 10/8/12 /
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Lena Dunham Is at Least $3.5 Million Richer
She sold her book.
- 10/8/12 /
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P.S. I Hate You: The Angry John Lennon Letters
The former Beatle was an enthusiastic, occasionally cranky pen pal.
- 10/8/12 /
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Inside Chris Ware’s Graphic-Novel-in-a-Box
The contents of his latest work, Building Stories, wind their way through fourteen different elements, including pamphlets, mini-comics, magazines, newspapers, and a Little Golden Book.
- 10/4/12 /
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See ‘Trading Cards’ for Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies, and Other Banned Books
Books and badassery collide in one awesome art project!
- 10/4/12 /
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Lena Dunham’s Advice Is Now Worth $3.6 Million
And the bidding is still going.
- 10/3/12 /
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The Casual Vacancy Did Not Break Any Harry Potter Sales Records
It sold 375,000 copies.
- 10/2/12 /
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Junot Díaz Is Among This Year’s MacArthur Fellowship Winners
That's $500,000 big ones to keep him writing.
- 9/30/12 /
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Gary Shteyngart Had an Incredibly Negative Experience with American Airlines
So he wrote about it in the New York Times.
- 9/28/12 /
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What’s Missing From J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy? Let the Critics Tell You
Magic, Dumbledore, and really any Harry Potter references at all.
- 9/27/12 /
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What Would Your Favorite TV Show Look Like As a YA Novel?
They've got you covered. Hehe.
- 9/25/12 /
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Let the Parks and Recreation Cast Explain the Humblebrag
"It's such a drag having such a huge dong."
- 9/25/12 /
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Tig Notaro Writing a Book About Her Tough Times
About "the highest of highs and lowest of lows of a lifetime, crammed into a four-month period."
- 9/24/12 /
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J.K. Rowling’s ‘Ironclad’ Unicorn Sex Rule
Her new book is for Muggles. Adult Muggles.
- 9/21/12 /
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Penny Marshall on My Mother Was Nuts, Directing ‘Bobby D,’ and Her Tense ET Appearance
"I just went berserk. (A) I was tired. (B) It was a child that was interviewing me."
- 9/20/12 /
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See the Deliciously Pulp Book-Cover Art for Stephen King’s Joyland
Carnies welcome!
- 9/18/12 /
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Elbows, Knees, and Blows: All the Ways Jack Reacher Kicks Ass Over Seventeen Novels
So many elbows to the face.
- 9/17/12 /
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The Vulture Diaries: Emma Straub’s Week in Pop-Culture Consumption
The author of Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures logs seven days of pop-culture consumption.
- 9/17/12 /
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Michael Chabon May Just Be the Perfect Writer for the Obama Age
With his latest novel, Telegraph Avenue, Chabon proves that he has the chutzpah of hope.
- 9/13/12 /
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See Fred Armisen As Penny Marshall in an Ad for Her Book, My Mother Was Nuts
"They gotta go to the Amazon to get the book?"
- 9/7/12 /
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Black Eyed Peas to Blame for Fifty Shades of Grey
It's like two rivers of awfulness formed an ocean of terrible.