Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu Teaming Up for Magnus Bane Series

Mortal Instruments author Cassandra Clare is teaming up with Wesley Chu for a new series about sorcerer Magnus Bane for Simon and Schuster. May 30, 2016

Twitter to Give Users More Room for Text in a Tweet

Twitter will allow users to enter more text into a tweet by excluding usernames in replies and media attachments. May 24, 2016

Lindsey Vonn to Publish Her First Book With Dey Street Books

Lindsey Vonn will publisher her first book with Dey Street Books. Strong is the New Beautiful arrives in October 2016 May 24, 2016

Boston's Sidewalk Poetry Can Only Be Seen When it Rains

A poetry project in Boston has created poems that only show up when it has rained. May 24, 2016

Snapchat Raises Another $200 Million for $20 Billion Valuation

Snapchat has reportedly raised another $200 million giving the chat social network a $20 billion valuation. May 23, 2016

Scholastic Announces Summer Reading Road Trip

Scholastic is embarking on a Summer Reading Road Trip with RVs going on a 25+ city road trip. May 23, 2016

Ed Roberson Wins 2016 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

Ed Roberson is the winner of the 2016 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. The award honors a U.S. poet for outstanding lifetime achievement. May 23, 2016

Jonathan Franzen Blows Two Shakespeare Questions on Jeopardy!

Jonathan Franzen blew two easy questions about Shakespeare on Jeopardy! He nailed the Bird category, though, and won money for the American Bird Conservancy. May 20, 2016

Google's AI Writes Poetry After Reading Thousands of Romance Novels

Google's AI has written several poems after reading thousands of romance novels. May 19, 2016

New Version of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code Being Released for Young Adults

Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is getting a new look and some editing for a young adult audience. The book will be released in September, before Inferno hits theaters. May 18, 2016

Hamilton Author Lin-Manuel Miranda's Inspiring Commencement Speech at University of Pennsylvania

Hamilton writer Lin-Manuel Miranda gave an excellent commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania. He discusses the power of story and its link to creativity. May 18, 2016

Scripps Buys Cracked for $39 Million

Scripps has acquired the humor brand Cracks. Cracked runs a website, apps and a podcast and creates original video. May 17, 2016

Veronica Roth Ventures Into Science Fiction in Carve the Mark

Veronica Roth's next series will be science fiction. It starts with Carve the Mark which arrives in stores early next year. May 17, 2016

Women Writers Dominate 2015 Nebula Awards

Women won in all category but one at the 2015 Nebula Awards. The winning novel is uprooted by Naomi Novik. May 16, 2016

Han Kang and Deborah Smith Win 2016 Man Booker International Prize

Han Kang and Deborah Smith won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for the novel, The Vegetarian. May 16, 2016

Tell-All Book by Anonymous Congressman Climbs Amazon Bestseller List

A tell-all book by an anonymous congressman has been climibng the bestseller list on Amazon May 15, 2016

Ta-Nehisi Coates Talks Writing New Black Panther Comics Series

National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses writing the new Black Panther comics series for Marvel and his take on the character. May 15, 2016

NBCUniversal to Acquire DreamWorks Animation

NBCUniversal has announced plans to acquire DreamWorks Animation. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2016. May 14, 2016

Leonard Riggio to Retire as Barnes & Noble Chairman

Barnes & Noble founder Leonard Riggio is retiring from his position as Chairman of Barnes & Noble. He will remain on the Board. May 14, 2016

Dead Writers Perfume Smells Like Old Books

Sweet Tea Apothecary has created a fragrance called Dead Writers Perfume. It smells like old books. May 14, 2016

George R.R. Martin Releases New Chapter From The Winds of Winter

George R.R. Martin has released a new chapter from Winds of Winter, written from the point of view of Princess Arianne of Dorn. May 12, 2016

Instagram Unveils New Logo and App Design

Instagram has unveiled a new look for its logo and its popular photo sharing app. May 11, 2016

Moist, Crevice and Slacks: Study Reveals the Most Repulsive English Words

The word moist is absolutely despised by Americans, as are the words crevice, slacks and phlegm. A new study looks at word avulsion in America. May 7, 2016

Free Comic Book Day 2016 is Saturday May 7th

Alan Tudyk discusses Free Comic Book Day 2016 and his and Nathon Fillion's new comic Spectrum which is part of their web series Con Man. May 6, 2016

Walt Whitman's Manly Health Tips

Walt Whitman is one of the best known American poets. He also gave some health advice in articles for the New York Atlas. May 4, 2016