Top ten type faces of the decade.

The Oxford English Dictionary will not be printed again.

John Cusack will star in Raven, a film about Edgar Allan Poe.

A 6-year-old gets a 23-book deal with Strategic Book Publishing, but it may not be a very good deal.

Berlin is “bombed” with poetry.

Heart of Darkness is now a graphic novel.

JK Rowling gives £10million for  multiple sclerosis research clinic.

Aug. 24 is probably not really the Bible’s anniversary.

Is the crime novel the only real social fiction?

Mockingjay sells more than 450,000 it’s first week.

There will be a sequel to Kick-Ass?

The Sandman is in the early stages of a TV adaptation.

Archie gets it’s first gay character.

Silvia Plath fans ask for a more fitting memorial.Novelist Vance Bourjaily dies at 87.

McSweeney’s sponsors two contests.

Hunger Games
Paperback
$8.99

Catching Fire
Hardcover
$17.99

Mockingjay
Hardcover
$17.99

President Obama is seen leaving a bookstore with a galley of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom.

J. M. Barrie maybe related to two mummified infants found in a trunk.

A business professor replaces text books with graphic novels.

The most exciting university presses.

Seattle libraries close for a week due to funding problems.

Linguistic abilities may be linked to Alzheimer’s.

Celebrate Ray Bradbury’s 90th birthday by testing your Bradbury knowledge.

Moby Dick with dragons.

There are typo vigilantes.

Günter Grass writes his last autobiographical novel.

Mr. Popper’s Penguins will hit the silver screen.

TODAY is read a comic book in public day! (done!)

Chances are if you are a local Santa Cruz resident, you already know who The Devil Makes Three is… But just in case you’ve missed them over the years, here is a little bit about them! Pete Bernhard, Cooper McBean, and Lucia Torino are The Devil Makes Three, a punk-bluegrass group formed in Santa Cruz, California. The three of them are originally from the east coast, primarily hailing from Vermont. Pete moved west right out of high school with Cooper soon following suit. After first settling Olympia, Washington and playing in an ill-fated band, McBean – who by now had the name of his home state tattooed across his neck – again joined musical forces with Bernhard. In turn, they later teamed with New Hampshire-native and U.C. Santa Cruz attendee Lucia. Since then they have taken the West Coast, especially the Bay Area by storm. You can catch them in Santa Cruz usually twice a year at the Catalyst, or in various other music venues as they tour with their other projects: Pete Bernhard (solo) and Elders.

Okay, so it’s not really public domain, but it IS free!

On August 28th from noon to 5pm

Check out the book trailer they made, take a gander at their book, and wander around their website!

Avery Monsen is an actor, artist, and writer.

Jory John is a writer, editor, and journalist.

They are friends, and neither is dead. Yet.

Rooney Mara will star in the American version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

Was there a real-life Quasimodo?

Viggo Mortensen will star in the film adaptation of On the Road.

Two New Jersey libraries remove gay themed books.

Why does Miami-Dade county have so few bookstores?

15 writers from the cover of TIME.

The most passionate literary couples in history.

J.D. Salinger’s toilet is being auctioned. Seriously.

A Swiss woman dies presumably trying to find Christopher McCandless’ (Into the Wild) final resting place.

Novels for the emerging adult.

Txting lingo is as old as the Victorian age.

The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library will open this fall.

Betty White signs a two-book deal.

Ricky Martin’s memoir will be published in November.

India gets it’s first e-reader.

See the highest paid authors.

A Florida city denies a permit request for a 9/11 Quran burning.

Watch an interview with the cast of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.

See the London premier of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.

Jeanette Winterson defends books and strikes out at libraries replacing them.

Have Americans cornered the market on coming-of-age stories?

Is James Ellroy haunted by his mother?

The uncertain future of fiction.

Download the pdf here.

Read an interview with Don DeLillo.

Jay-Z is writing a memoir.

In the event of a massive book death, new uses for books.

A new social networking site based on books.

Tolkein and Dickens decedents collaborate on a children’s fantasy.

The most overrated writers of the world?

Read an interview with China Miéville.

Slate recommends books for President Obama’s vacation.

Futurama has created the most new words of any other television series.

Ricky Gervais is being sued for stealing the idea for Flanimals.

Why people use pen names.

What is a poetry box?

Eternal City  by Matthew Baker

In the same way that a lamb, fed a fat diet of seeds and stems, can grow larger, and thicker, and eventually become another thing entirely—a sheep—power is simply the adult version of something smaller that each of us are born with: cruelty.  What cruelty feeds on, then, is the Other.

Everything I ever needed to know I learned as a child, in the groves of plum and cedar beyond our village, inventing games of chance for the other children in which chance played no part, in which winning or losing depended on my whims alone.  For me, the pleasure in these games was in exposing the Other in each of the children, finding a way to divide them from the rest of the pack, herding them away from the fields and into the caverns, a dark place for my cruelty to feed.  For the mechanic’s son, it was his lips—thick and pale, chapped almost to whiteness from a nervous habit, licking them with the tip of his tongue, a habit which I had pretended to have until he had acquired it as his own… (read more at Annalemma Magazine)

This week Savuer posted recipes from some of their favorite fiction titles. Check them out!

The Joy Luck Club: Eggplant in Garlic Sauce

Eat Pray Love: Cacio e Pepe Pasta Sauce

Le Grand Bouffe: Jacques Pepin’s Apple Tart

Chocolat: Chocolate Truffles

Willy Wonka: Chocolate Sauce

Dim Sum Funeral: Pork Bao