Neil Gaiman’s newest book will be called The Ocean at the End of the Lane.

Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby will not be released until summer 2013.

See a diagram of deaths written by Edgar Allan Poe.

The social aspects of Homer’s epics are likely true.

Celebrate Julia Child’s 100th birthday with 10 books.

10 films you never knew were books.

100 best ever teen novels.

A list of the best lists.

Children’s book writer, Jean Merrill, dies at 89.

Stephen King will write a sequel toThe Shining.

Top 10 most difficult books.

For the love of Edward Gorey.

James Gleick writes about auto correct.

Shakespeare in the park fans get a free book from Random House.

Chris Colfer lands a YA book deal.

8-bit book covers.

A library card with Elvis Presley’s signature is expected to fetch close to $4k.

John Steinbeck’s son is livid over the “profoundly tragic” use of his father’s work to defend capital punishment.

Joan Rivers is escorted out of Costco by police over their refusal to carry her book.

For the first time ever a David Sedaris story will become a film.

Chicago Public Library is planning an amnesty from overdue book fines.

If great authors wrote in JavaScript.

What adults can learn from kid’s books.

Watch the only footage of Mark Twain in existence.

The Royal Tenenbaums in print.

Match your swim suit to your beach read.

Every Harry Potter chapter image in one picture.

Henry Miller on reading.

See vintage book posters from the New York Public Library.

Learn about the Aleppo Codex, the oldest, most complete, and most accurate text of the Hebrew Bible.

Eat like your favorite authors.

10 best closing lines in books.

The worst books to read at the beach.

See the tattoos on famous authors.

Watch the official trailer for The Life of Pi.

See the book cover designs from Pierre Faucheux.

Philip K. Dick and the cinema.

Percy Bysshe Shelly was worried about information overload in 1821.

8 areas of culture influenced by Moby Dick.

In defense of Batman.

See 30 alternative book covers.

What to read if you loved The Hunger Games: a flowchart.

See a periodic table of typefaces.

How to get a refund for Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine, and why.

Get free digital samples from books on the 2012 Man Booker Longlist.

Watch the official trailers to The Cloud Atlas.

J.K. Rowling builds a Hogwarts tree house for her kids.

The war of William S. Burroughs and Truman Capote.

Find out why the letter Z is associated with sleep.

Listen to a rediscovered F. Scott Fitzgerald story.

A 7-year reading of the Talmud is at an end.

Lewis F. Richardson, the father of modern meteorology, pays tribute to Jonathan Swift in verse in a scientific paper in 1920.

A fictional marijuana strain comes to life.

Neal Cassady’s sex life.

See 8-bit illustrations of the first line in novels.

The history of Tales of a Thousand and One Nights.

Daniel Clowes is graceful with terrible interview questions.

See Joss Whedon and Dave Foley perform a story written by a kid.

The history of the deckle edge.

See retro library posters.

Author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey, dies at 79.

The bestselling books this year, so far…

Dinah Fried prepares meals from novels.

Read a love letter from Balzac.

Remember that time Edith Wharton wrote erotica?

Why is New York is obsessed with Hungarian literature.

The Hunger Games and Game of Thrones dominate new baby names.

Watch Gary Oldman read from R. Kelly’s biography.

Create a jinn and win a prize!

See Christoph Seelbach’s library photographs.

Larry McMurtry auctions off 300,000 books from his bookshop.

A study of how to read comfortably in bed.

A 6-year-old judges books by their covers.

See illustrations from Matt Furie’s new book.

Read a critical letter from F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Oscar Wilde responds to a critic.

Johnny Depp is editing Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl novel.

11 writers who acted.

See Carl Sagan’s reading list from 1954.

Cookbook author, Marion Cunningham, dies at 90.

Neil Gaiman signs a 5 book deal with Harper Collins.

The film version of  Mockingjay will be split into two parts.

The missing illuminated manuscript, Codex Calixtinus, was found.

Bad endings to choose your own adventures.

What if Cormac McCarthy wrote a scene from Seinfeld?

Listen to William Faulkner read his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

See an atlas for the blind.

Gabriel García Márquez has stopped writing due to early senile dementia brought on by cancer treatments.

See Flannery O’Connor’s college cartoons.

Books are being published with disappearing ink.

How Charles Dickens inspired The Dark Knight Rises.

Read the most highlighted passages from Fifty Shades of Grey.

Neil Gaiman will write a prequel to Sandman.

How Fifty Shades of Grey misrepresents BDSM.

Read an interview with Dave Eggers.

Neal Stephenson has a Kickstarter project for a sword-fighting simulator.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Read an interview with Jonathan Safran Foer.

Test your knowledge of stormy literature.

Yoko Ono’s top 10 must read books.

Use Thomas Pynchon’s Trystero mail system.

How a library used book burning threats to save itself.

Why Michael Chabon hates dreams.

Read an interview with the man trying to recreate the Gutenberg Bible.

Robert Louis Stevenson gives his birthday to a little girl.

Paper Passion: a collaborative scent from Wallpaper* Steidl and I Hate Perfume.

How language hurts our understanding of colors.

Matisse illustrated Ulysses.

How a short story ruined a marriage.

Today is Bloomsday.

Salinger’s quest for privacy continues posthumously.

Hemingway’s home is sold.

Thomas Pynchon goes digital.

See the new Truman Capote book covers.

See landscapes carved into books by Guy Laramee.

Read an interview with Martin Amis and Olga Slavnikova.

Watch Michael Lewis give his commencement speech to the Princeton Class of 2012.

Even Barnes & Nobel is defending the agency model.

Watch Dr. Ruth endorse Fifty Shades of Grey.

Watch 10 short films based on 10 short stories.

Check out Calligraphica, a blog devoted to beautiful writing.

An early playhouse used by Shakespeare is discovered.

Studies show that enhanced e-books are hurting literacy.

Watch Ray Bradbury read his poem If Only We Had Been Taller.

Lev Grossman on walking while reading.

The Bowler Press will release a typeset 3 volume limited edition of Pride and Prejudice.

Call the new installation at the NY MOMA, dial a poem.

Haruki Murakami Bingo.

An original Tintin cover fetches $1.6 million at auction.

See stacked book sculptures by Jonathan Callan.

Read an interview with Dave Eggers about his new book A Hologram for the Emperor.

A first edition of the Book of Mormon was stolen.

The Rosenbach Museum opens a new revolving Maurice Sendak exhibit.

Listen to Neil Gaiman read his obituary for Ray Bradbury, who died 91.

See a tent that looks like a book.

The lost history of Fifty Shades of Grey.

Stephen King will publish Joyland in physical form only.

What if Jack Kirby did My Little Pony Comics? Or Batman and Jay-z teamed up solve 99 problems? Comics Alliance give us Great Comics That Never Happened.

Read Kurt Vonnegut’s real letter from Slaughterhouse Five.

Visit 10 literary bars in Manhattan.

If you like Fifty Shades of Gray, you’ll LOVE these.

Watch the trailer for On the Road.

Publisher’s Weekly defends themselves from Stephen Colbert.

Children’s illustrator, Leo Dillon, dies at 79.

Penguin and Macmillan continue to fight Amazon’s price fixing accusations.

Listen to Jarvis Cocker read from The Hueys in the New Jumper by Oliver Jeffers.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s house is saved from redevelopment.

See some terrifying French children’s books.

Listen to Dave Eggers read Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle.

Read an interview with Sam Lipsyte.

How Isaac Asimov inspired Paul Krugman.

When authors paint.

Watch the trailer for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s silent film version of The Great Gatsby.

Terry Pratchet wins the Woodhouse Award and has a pig named after him.

Listen to Flannery O’connor read from A Good Man is Hard to Find.

Read an interview with Junot Díaz.

Author, Ellen Levine, dies at 73.

Green Lantern becomes DC Comics first gay superhero.

Watch Charles Bukowski talk about depression.

A new ancient language is discovered.

Watch the trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby.

The gnawed Roman skeleton that inspired Silvia Plath’s All the Dead Dears goes on display.

Listen to Arthur Miller read Death of a Salesman.

Watch Neil Gaiman address the University of the Arts class of 2012.

Pop music loves T.S. Eliot.

Play with a P.G. Woodhouse time-sink.

Follow Electric Literature’s expertly curated site for a free story a week.

James Bobin is looking to cast Zach Galifianakis as Ignacius in The Confederacy of Dunces. Fingers crossed!

Typewriter erotica was all the rage in the 1920′s.

Luminarium makes illuminated manuscript cookies.

Read an interview with Jennifer Egan, who is publishing a science fiction book on Twitter.

Netia Jones recalls working with Maurice Sendak on opera renditions of his books.

How a 15-year-old built a library.

Maurice Sendak died last week.

Mexican novelist, Carlos Fuentes, dies at 83.

It is a little-known but undisputed historical fact that Johannes Gutenberg did not invent the printing press.

A rare hand-written Antoine de Saint-Exupery manuscript containing a story cut from The Little Prince goes up for auction. Read a translation of the page here.

Find out who Frederico Garcia Lorca’s lover was.

A new perfume for book lovers from Geza Schoen of CB I Hate Perfume.

Watch Morgan Freeman encourage kids to read in 1971.

Watch a 1951 animated short of A Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe.

Read an interview with Orhan Pamuk on The Museum of Innocence.

Celebrate 200 Years of Edward Lear.

See Harry Clarke’s illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Wisconsin is keeping old typefaces alive.

Graphic designer Karen To gives dead words new life.

See the top 10 most read books in the past 50 years.

Edinburgh’s Phantom Book Artist sends Ian Rankin 17 small paintings for his birthday.

Why Charles Simic still writes poetry.

The Descriptive Camera captures your photos with words.

Sylvia Beach Whitman keeps Shakespeare & Co. alive after her father’s death.

See a flowchart of how a book is born.

Iain Sinclair meets Gary Snyder in his retreat in the woods.

I Shot the Serif: a new first person font-based shooter.

Legendary singer, Donna Summer, dies at 63.

TI and Jay-Z openly support same sex marriage.

The Handsome Furs split up.

John Updike’s childhood home will become a museum.

Harlan Ellison will republish his juvenile delinquent fiction.

Children’s author and Newbery Medal winner winner, Jean Craighead George, dies at 92.

Charlene Harris will end her Sookie Stackhouse series next May.