This month Random House Children's Books released The Mighty Lalouche, a picture book by Matthew Olshan illustrated by Sophie Blackall. It gets my vote for cutest picture book of the year so far.
Today in books: Drive follow-up will be released as a paperback this summer, Jonathan Safran Foer's complicated best book of the year criteria, and why print books will always rule the skies.
Today in books: The New York Daily News tips its toe into the world of blog blogging with a picture of a semi-nude Truman Capote, Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography was Amazon's top-selling book of 2011, and "China's Amazon" is going to start selling e-books.
Today in books: Kurt Vonnegut's son says that his dad may have been a grouch, but didn't own stock in Dow Chemical, the Department of Justice confirms an investigation into e-book price-fixing, and the tricky business of picking a pen name.
Today in books: the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award results are in, two poets have withdrawn from the T.S. Eliot prize shortlist, and California gets a Harry Potter theme park.
Today in publishing: Amanda Knox hires a lawyer to help with a book deal, British Poet Ted Hughes gets honored today at Westminster Abbey, and your iPad can now look like a magical leather-bound book.
Today in books: Marco Rubio secures a well-timed book deal, a possible new image of Jane Austen has been discovered, and Byliner enters the short story publishing game.
The Players: Niall Ferguson, writer, historian, brainy professor at Harvard who isn't afraid of rebutting a bad review with a lawsuit; Pankaj Mishra, writer, essayist, brainy reviewer for the London Review of Books who isn't afraid of unleashing a scathing review.
Today in books: Baghdad students don't like American books, zombies invade our literary fiction, popular fantasy author Anne McCaffrey has died, and Penguin stops its e-book library lending programs.
Today in books: The Literary Review's roundup of the year's worst sex writing includes Stephen King and Haruki Murakami, Mark Danielewski gets $1 million for 37 percent of his upcoming serialized novel, and even Mark Cuban has embraced self-publishing
Today in books: Martin Scorsese will direct another book based on an intricately plotted detective story, Europe's e-book pricing woes, and Neil Gaiman is a good sport on The Simpsons.
Today in books: The 2009 Man Booker winner is the latest prestigious literary property to be gobbled up by HBO, Diane Keaton's inventive memoir has some great Woody Allen stories, and the late Michael Crichton's scribbles have become a book about killer bugs and an evil CEO.
Today in books: Mitt Romney will be the subject of a big, comprehensive biography, the size of the Kindle Million Club is getting out of control, and World War Z sells one million copies at its own pace
Bill Clinton's new book airs old grievances, John Hodgman is not such a fan of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Stephen King options Rose Madder, and 13 letters written by reclusive author Harper Lee are up for sale.
MGM has bought the rights to Where's Waldo?, the illustrated kids book series in which the goal is to find the striped shirt-sporting hero in a crowd, and we have some suggestions on how to adapt.
On the surface, Amazon's Lending Library, which begins today, sounds Netflix-esque: Pay a fee for unlimited digital borrowing access.
Stunning stop motion animation and pretty embroidered book covers make Spike Jonze's latest project look both gorgeous and gruesome.
The world has moved on, but Traci Noble says there's still more dirt to tell
The publisher is already making excuses for its modest sales
The Moneyball author's first book was about bad behavior on Wall Street
Plus: Only Jay Gatsby could afford a first edition 'Great Gatsby' dust jacket
Plus: Where the Borders business model lost its way
The New York Times hates it, as expected
Plus: Ebook sales were up a whopping 162 percent in the first half of 2011
IKEA is redesigning their bookshelves to accommodate tchotchkes instead of hardbacks
Plus: An appropriate send-off for Borders
Also, in book news: Time lists the 100 best non-fiction books ever
Memoirs will hit stores in November
Also, in books: Michiko Kakutani gives Tom Perrotta's new novel a mixed review
Apparently footnotes in Alex Prud'homme's new book won't suffice
Plus: Coco Chanel was a German spy, according to a new biography
Plus: R. Crumb snubs Australian design festival over 'pervert' flap
industry sales figures show that people are buying more books than three years ago
Edward Jay Epstein reports on his experiment in electronic self-publishing
A new, anonymously written tome has all the hallmarks of an unauthorized biography
A study finds that readers imagine speakers saying dialogue in their heads
The New York Post says the reversal is "one of the bigger book-publishing mysteries"
New tablet computer with a nine-inch screen will run on Android
Your kids are irritating? 'Easier to say you're giving up tea for heroin,' says reviewer
"It was the right thing to do to put our words and our voices on paper"
Fittingly, the book has been placed in The New York Times's advice category
The Wall Street Journal's John Fund will help write the book, due out this fall
The novelist shares her favorite sites and her hilarious method to avoid procrastination
We picked from the advice Wired writer Steve Silberman solicited from 22 authors
The likely presidential candidate read "Twilight" on his granddaughter's recommendation
Controversy after only one female author appears in list of 75 'greatest' books
Also, mutton parts, baby-making and a prostitute-loving libertarian cartoonist
Carmen Callil does not agree with the choice of this year's winner
But she does ask him if she made him cry
Because there was no emotional justice!
Virginia Beach, home to the SEALs, has become a stalking ground for admirers
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