Everything has been kept secret, except the author and title. But the first novel in five years by Japan's Haruki Murakami has become a hit even before its official release Friday.
In a time of cost-cutting in the publishing industry, wallets opened wide for a long-awaited second novel.
A New York City novelist and wife of the heir of the Hoover vacuum fortune is suing her sister, claiming that she hacked into a computer and stole portions of the manuscript of her latest book.
Sherry Jones' "The Jewel of Medina" reached bookstores Monday amid fears that the book about the Prophet Muhammad's child bride might lead to violence and threats. But the author said she had received no threats and was spending the day quietly, except for talking to reporters and being photographed.
Three men charged with plotting to attack the publisher of a novel about one of the Prophet Muhammad's wives made a brief court appearance Friday and were returned to custody.
Three men charged with plotting to attack the publisher of a novel about the Prophet Muhammad's child bride made a brief court appearance Friday after being charged with plotting to damage the offices of Gibson Square publishers.
Plans for the British publication of a controversial novel about a young wife of the Prophet Muhammad are stalled following a fire at the publisher's London office, a sales representative for the company was quoted Tuesday as saying.
With British publication in doubt for Sherry Jones' "The Jewel of Medina," the U.S. publisher of her controversial novel about the Prophet Muhammad has moved up the release date from Oct. 15 to Monday.
The publisher that took on O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It" after it was dropped in the face of public outrage has signed up another rejected project: Sherry Jones' "The Jewel of Medina," a novel about a wife of the prophet Muhammad that Random House canceled out of concern that it would anger Muslims.
A volunteer police officer shot dead by a gunman on a rampage in Greenwich Village last year will have his first novel published posthumously this spring.
A novel in which the entire narrative consists of mobile phone text messages was published Wednesday in Finland.
An excerpt from "A Perfect Match," an out-of-print romance novel written by Texas Agriculture Commissioner Susan Combs, a conservative Republican running for state comptroller. It is about National Security Agency code-breaker Emily Brown and Ross Harding, a spy assigned to protect her after she intercepts a message that endangers her life:
The willowy brunette laughed heartily, lustily, as she dismissed the notion that her romance novel full of steamy sex scenes crossed the line into pornography.
"Three Day Road," Joseph Boyden's acclaimed tale of Cree snipers during World War I, won Canada's annual First Novel Award on Thursday.
Margaret Atwood has had enough of long journeys, late nights and writer's cramp. Tired of grueling book tours, the Booker Prize-winning Canadian author on Sunday unveiled her new invention: a remote-controlled pen that allows writers to sign books for fans from thousands of miles away.
Having camped out on the New York Times bestseller list for about a year, The Shack was ripe for that tasty stew of analysis and breezy humor that is English criticism. And the online magazine Ship of Fools delivers it.
YA author Justine Larbalestier has gone public with her disappointment over her US publisher Bloomsbury's cover art for her forthcoming novel Liar. Specifically, Justine is upset that the cover shows a white girl, and the book is about a black girl.
A review of Kate Walbert's new novel "A Short History of Women". The novel is a series of linked stories that tell the tales of Dorothy Trevor Townsend, a British suffragist, and her descendants. Walbert is also the author, "Our Kind," a National Book Award finalist
We the editors regret to inform readers of The Liberty Tree Rag that Author B J Lee will no longer be writing his column. On Friday morning it was rumored that a black SUV was following him to his mailbox when he suddenly convulsed and fell to the ground.
It has been awhile since I sat down and read a book almost entirely in one sitting, so you can imagine my surprise when I read Marisa Silver's recent novel The God of War, about a young boy named Ares Ramirez who comes of age in a desperate desert landscape weighed down by the gu …
An Oxford author has appealed to Facebook users to help him with his latest novel.
Elizabeth Baines is joining forces with Eco-Libris who will plant a tree for every copy printed of her novel Too Many Magpies which comes from Salt in October.
"A book festival in the Middle East that claims to celebrate the "world of books in all its infinite variety" has banned a British author because her novel contains references to homosexuality.
It is a rare gem of a novel about a young American, disillusioned with his materialistic life in the states, who takes an incredible journey through the present-day wild Tribal Areas of Pakistan and the stunning mountains of Kashmir, regions plagued by violence and unrest, and su …
Never mind the movie, are Twilight novels turning today's children into sex-crazed tweenagers? That's the claim made by one LA Times writer, but we're unconvinced that the books are that depraved... or even that good.
Ben Folds is listed as being featured on "I Am" by Novel, but you'd be forgiven for not realizing that: his vocals are made Chipmunk-high, but he did the piano for the song. Talib Kweli and Spree Wilson do guest verses on the track, and Talib runs off with the show.
Meet Gwendolen Gross, author of The Other Mother, for an author talk and discussion at the Ramsey Public Library in Ramsey, New Jersey on Sunday, November 16th at 2:00pm. The event is free and open to all.
It's November again, Newsvine! And while that means we have to slog through the election, it also means it's time to stay up nights working on slamming out a 50,000-page novel before 11:59:59pm on November 30. NaNoWriMo home page
This is an interesting take on the novel To Kill A Mockingbird. It shows another side to the story which you may not have picked up on.
After much success on the BBC's Little Britain and currently on HBO's Little Britain USA, David Walliams has written his first novel, "The Boy in the Dress" - simply about a boy who dresses as a girl.
An excellent interview with Stuart Archer Cohen on his new book The Army of the Republic.
This quirky event takes the idea of national anything and uses it to liberate our inner authors. This November will be the tenth anniversary of the National Novel Writing Month.
SATURDAY, Oct. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Could a novel with an embedded message about good health help overweight girls develop the motivation to lose a few pounds? New research suggests that it just might, but the results weren't dramatic.
"Mobile novel" has become a favorite genre for young girls in Japan - a new kind of "user generated contents", written by the young girls and read among themselves.
Ismail Kadare's world is a sort of antimatter. It destroys ours. Except that, unlike the example from particle physics, it also complements ours and to stark effect.
The 31st Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest starts in 2 days! It will take place August 30 - September 1, 2008. Those who were daring enough to enter are tasked with writing a novel in 3 days. Yes, it can be done because it has done for 30 years.
Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov on Solzhenitsyn, the author of the Gulag Archipelago, who related the terrible truth about Soviet totalitarianism and the Soviet Gulag and pleaded for "abandonment of all forms of censorship".