President Obama, Sasha and Malia Buy Books for Christmas Gifts

President Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia made their annual trek to a local bookstore for Small Business Saturday. They loaded up on books to read and to give as gifts. November 30, 2014

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Mark Strand Dead at 80

Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mark Strand has died of cancer at the age of 80. He is a former U.S. Poet Laureate. November 30, 2014

Jacqueline Woodson Responds to Daniel Handler's Racist Watermelon Joke

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson wrote an essay about the racist watermelon joke her friend Daniel Handler made at the NBA ceremony. November 29, 2014

Beach Boy Mike Love Inks Memoir Deal

Beach Boys co-founder Mike Love will publish a memoir telling the inside story of the legendary 1960s band. November 28, 2014

Top Authors and Illustrators Create Special Editions for Charity Auction

Sotheyby's is hosting an auction to benefit House of Illustration, the UK charity. Top illustrators and authors have created new art and annotations of their classic works. November 28, 2014

Evangeline Lilly Dresses Like a Squickerwonker to Chat About Her New Book

Evangeline Lilly dressed in a Squickerwonder costume to promote her new children's book on Jimmy Kimmel Live. November 27, 2014

Crime Writer P.D. James Dead at 94

Bestselling mystery novelist P.D. James has died at the age of 94. November 27, 2014

HarperCollins to Provide Ebook Excerpts for JetBlue Passengers

HarperCollins teams up with JetBlue to provide ebook excerpts on JetBlue's new wifi service. November 26, 2014

J.K. Rowling Tops List of Hollywood's Most Powerful Authors

The Hollywood Reporter has named its 25 Most Powerful Authors. J.K. Rowling, Stephen King and George R.R. Martin top the list. November 26, 2014

Bill Cosby Biographer Apologizes for Not Writing About the Sexual Assault Charges

Journalist Mark Whitaker, the author of Cosby: His Life and Times, has apologized for leaving the many sexual assault allegations against Cosby out of the book. November 25, 2014

Barnes and Noble Offering 500,000 Signed First Editions for Sale on Black Friday

Barnes and Noble asked more than 100 top authors and celebs to sign first editions of their books. 500,000 signed books will be available in bookstores on Black Friday. November 24, 2014

UT Austin Acquires Entire Archive of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

UT Austin's Harry Ransom Center just picked up some literary treasure: the entire archive of Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. November 24, 2014

James Patterson's House of Robots to be Animated Web Series

James Patterson's new illustrated book House of Robots will be an animated web series on the Fred channel. November 23, 2014

Daniel Handler Apologizes Again, Raises Money for WNDB

Daniel Handler really knows how to make a grand gesture. He apologized again for racist comments and donated $110,000 to We Need Diverse Books. November 23, 2014

Vape is the Word of the Year

The Oxford Dictionaries have named vape as the word of the year. It beat out slacktivism and normcore. November 21, 2014

Phil Klay Wins, Daniel Handler Horrifies at National Book Awards

Former Marine Phil Klay won the National Book Award for Fiction. Host Daniel Handler made racially offensive joke that horrified many. November 20, 2014

Whoopi Goldberg Writing Book About the Downside of Marriage

Whoopi Goldberg just inked a deal with Hachette to write a book about the downsides of marriage and love. The comedian will publish the book in September, 2015. November 13, 2014

Amazon and Hachette Bury the Hatchet

Amazon and Hachette have reached a deal. Hachette authors' books are shipping on time again. But Douglas Preston still isn't happy. November 13, 2014

Chelsea Peretti Has the Funniest Booksigning Ever

Brooklyn Nine-Nine star and comedian Chelsea Peretti held a booksigning for fans. She hasn't written a book, she just signed other people's books. November 12, 2014

Taylor Swift's Departure From Spotify Hailed by Songwriters

Songwriters are happy that Taylor Swift has pulled her music from Spotify. Songwriters are paid almost nothing in royalties under these streaming service agreements. November 12, 2014

Writers Guild of America Supports Obama's Net Neutrality Proposal

Writers Guild of America West came out in support of President Obama's defense of Net Neutrality which will stop cable companies from creating fast and slow lanes on the Web. November 11, 2014

Kathy Stinson and Dusan Petricic Win Top Canadian Children's Literature Award

Kathy Stinson and Dusan Petricic win the top Canadian children's prize for their book The Man With the Violin. They will share a prize of C$30,000. November 9, 2014

Netflix to Make TV Show Based on Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Time to order Netflix. The company is making a live action tv series with Paramount based on Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. November 7, 2014

Long Lost Steinbeck Short Story Published in The Strand Magazine

A lost short story by John Steinbeck was found by the editor of The Strand Magazine. The story about a black WWII pilot was read on the radio by Orson Welles in 1944. November 7, 2014

Joe Hill Talks Horns and Why the Devil is Like a Superhero

Joe Hill's novel Horns is a new feature film starring Daniel Radcliffe. He talks about fiction writing and tells Seth Meyers why the Devil is really a superhero. November 5, 2014