From the description, "Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Pagford is not what it first seems." more ›

A bookworm is eating at Apple. Today the Justice Department filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against the iPad-maker and a slew of major book publishers saying that they colluded to raise the price of e-books. Remember when it was Microsoft that was always getting kicked around for this kind of stuff? more ›

Self-excommunicating Goldman Sachs survivor Greg Smith's book may be worth as much as $1 million, a "top editor" in the publishing industry tells the Post. Smith is apparently being represented by N.S. Bienstock, a firm whose speciality is repping "reality TV shows and news personalities." Can we finally get a @GSElevator sitcom? And can that guy from Princess Bride play Lloyd Blankfein? more ›

Apparently bereft over the season end of Downton Abbey, American women have set their sights on an erotic British novel, Fifty Shades of Grey, about a naive college student's seduction by a billionaire businessman and its accompanying graphic depictions of BDSM: "Uncoiling from the floor, rising lazily, like a jungle cat, he points the end of the riding crop at my navel, leisurely circling it — tantalizing me. At the touch of the leather, I quiver and gasp." But don't laugh—women are apparently excited enough to do it with their dudes after reading this! more ›

About a month ago, police officers from the 6th Precinct started cracking down on the book vendors and their ubiquitous tables lining Sixth Avenue, especially down by the West 4th Street area. According to DNAinfo, more than 3000 books were confiscated one morning, with officers citing numerous violations of the city's General Vendor Code—this includes violations like leaving tables and wares set up overnight, and covering tree pits. more ›

The Harry Potter books and movies are all wrapped up, Harry himself is off having groupie sex, and many of the kids who grew up reading the series as it came out are now adults. So if you are like us and think its about time for author J.K. Rowling to write something more (and maybe more grown-up) we've got good news for you! more ›

Over nearly a decade, more than 70,000 individuals have shared over 40,000 stories with StoryCorps, the oral history project that has become a treasured national institution. And just in time for Valentine's Day, the most heartfelt, mushy tales of love ever recorded have been turned into a collection of essays for founder Dave Isay's latest book, All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps, released February 2nd. more ›

The end of the year is almost upon us, and with it comes the usual slew of best-of lists for you to base your gift-giving decisions around. This year, instead of coming up with another top-ten list, (there are plenty of those), we decided to let the experts (aka the staff at our favorite bookstores) do the dirty work instead. So without further ado, we present the best books of 2011, according to the people who know best. more ›

Welcome to our column Staff Picks, in which we ask the staffers at our favorite book, music, and movie stores around to town to share with us what they're reading, listening to, and watching this week. We figure they're good people to ask. Today we're checking in with the staff at Dumbo's eye-catching independent bookstore/gallery/venue Powerhouse Arena to find out what they've been dog-earing lately. more ›

Yes, sometimes Williamsburg is so twee it borders on nausea-inducing, but every once in a while, a homegrown project pops up in the neighborhood that's completely adorable without making you feel sick. The K.I.D.S Corner Library is one of those projects. more ›

Welcome to our column Staff Picks, in which we ask the staffers at our favorite book, music, and movie stores around to town to share with us what they're reading, listening to, and watching this week. We figure they're good people to ask. Today we're checking in with the staff at Shakespeare & Co. Booksellers in Greenwich Village to find out which tomes tickle their fancy. more ›

Get a temporary cure for your own case of winter wanderlust tonight at McNally Jackson bookstore in SoHo, where a bevy of stars will align to share their tales of travel with the poor souls who can't afford to jet off to Tanzania on a moment's notice. Lights, Camera...Travel! is a new anthology from Lonely Planet, featuring 33 stories from some of the most well-traveled people in the film business, some of whom will be celebrating its release tonight. more ›

It's hard to believe, but Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer's children's classic The Phantom Tollbooth is turning 50 this year. Millions of children (and adults, too—check out Adam Gopnik reminiscing in a recent New Yorker article) have been enchanted by the surreal tale of Milo and his trip to the Kingdom of Wisdom, but not everyone knows that Juster and Feiffer wrote the book while living in the same building in Brooklyn Heights. more ›

After a whirlwind month of back-and-forthing with Cooper Union, the St. Mark's Bookshop in the East Village has been granted a rent reduction from the university, after all! more ›

In the event that you missed WORD's late-night Murakami read-a-thon on the release night of his new novel, IQ84, fret not! You have another opportunity to hear parts of Murakami's eagerly anticipated magnum opus read aloud, this time by some rather famous fans. more ›

The long, sad saga of the St. Mark's Bookshop vs. Cooper Union has come to an end today, as Cooper Union hands down its final word: there shall be no rent reduction. more ›

Supporters of the St. Mark's Bookshop in the East Village have tried everything from petitioning to sing-a-longs to save the beloved indie bookstore, but the final word has always rested with owner Cooper Union, who is mulling the decision to reduce the store's rent from $20,000 to $15,000. Today, Bookshop champions The Cooper Square Committee is urging residents and readers for one final push, since Cooper Union is apparently set to vote on a decision very, very soon. more ›

Well, this is awkward. An author has withdrawn from the National Book Awards shortlist after she was mistakenly honored by the National Book Foundation, who royally screwed up this year's awards process. more ›

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is so last season. Want to stay in with the in crowd? Pick up Cecily von Ziegesar’s Gossip Girl, Psycho Killer instead. No, this is not a joke. more ›

If you've been anxiously counting the days until the American release of author Haruki Murakami's epic new novel, 1Q84, this is the event for you: WORD Bookstore in Greenpoint is hosting an after-hours Murakami Read-a-Thon/ release countdown party on October 24! Come together with your fellow Murakami-philes and pass the time from 10:30 p.m. to midnight (when IQ84 is officially released) with round-robin readings of the best Murakami passages from his previous books, and snack on Peter Pan donuts and cheap wine until the magic hour hits. more ›

Tyra Banks, bless her, continues her fierce rampage to take over each and every media platform with her latest conquest: the New York Times bestseller list. Yes, that's right, Tyra's young adult book, Modelland, debuted at number two on the list, which makes us alternately pleased that kids are choosing to read and slightly nauseous that this is what they're going apeshit for. more ›

Over the years, Henry Rollins has gone from full-throttle lead singer of Black Flag to a sort of punk professor emeritus, who now spends most of his time traveling the world to perform his unique brand of "talking show." Fellow alterna-rock elder statesman Thurston Moore, who's kept a steady gig with Sonic Youth for, oh, about 30 years now, has had his fair share of world travels himself, so it's only natural that the two are pairing up for a special reading this week at Soho indie bookstore McNally Jackson. more ›

By this point, we've already seen the geography of our fair city repurposed for the Ultimate Manhattan Movie Map and the Ultimate NYC Super Mario Map. Both are nerdy in their own right, but are they... the nerdiest? NO. Because this is the Ultimate Nerd Guide to New York, just in time for Comic-Con! more ›

Welcome to our column Staff Picks, in which we ask the staffers at our favorite book, music, and movie stores around to town to share with us what they're reading, listening to, and watching this week. We figure they're good people to ask. Today we're checking in with the staff at Fort Greene bookstore Greenlight to find out what they've been dog-earing lately. more ›

The struggling St. Mark's Bookshop is getting an assist from an infamous supporter of the underdog: Michael Moore! The rabble-rousing filmmaker, who spent his Monday night visiting with the Wall Street Occupiers, is planning to visit the bookstore tomorrow night for a signing. more ›

Ever since word got out earlier this summer that much-loved neighborhood store St. Mark's Bookshop was struggling to stay afloat in the world of Kindles and iPads, lit-lovers have been rallying to save the independent bookstore...and it might actually be working. more ›