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My Friendship With a Murderer

By Jack Dickey

Be More Danish

By Lev Grossman

The 'Brain App' That's Better Than Spritz

By Annie Murphy Paul

Meet the Former Factory Worker Who Just Won a $100,000 Poetry Prize

By Lily Rothman
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Ernest Hemingway's Dirty Letter for Sale

The sexy note that Hemingway wrote to legendary actress Marlene Dietrich in 1955 could draw as much as $50,000 in an online auction. Dietrich's grandchildren plan to sell her belongings in an AuctionMyStuff.com sale from March 19 to April 6

By Lily Rothman

Keith Richards Is Writing A Children's Book

The Rolling Stone guitarist has a deal to write a picture story called "Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar" that will be published this fall. The book will include illustrations by Richards' daughter Theodora

By Sam Frizell

'Goldman Sachs Elevator' Tweeter Loses Book Deal

The man behind a popular and rather infamous Twitter account that entertained many in the finance world but infuriated top execs at Goldman Sachs has lost his book deal after it was discovered that the ex-banker had never actually worked at the firm

By David Winograd

'Goodnight Moon' Author's Poetry Published Posthumously

'Goodnight Songs' came out this week.

By Laura Stampler

Authors Beg Amazon: Stop the Cyberbullies

Popular vampire novel author Anne Rice has signed on to a petition demanding that Amazon disable anonymous book reviews after Internet trolls began ganging up on her in a section of the website normally reserved for critical but comparatively mild commentary

By Lily Rothman

Actress Sells Book of Poetry About Dead Actresses

ICYMI: Amber Tamblyn is also a very talented poet!

By Lily Rothman

This App Can Help You Read Up to 1,000 Words a Minute

Could smartphones actually help our reading skills?

By Kyle Chayka

Google Doodle Celebrates John Steinbeck

The author would have been 112

By Laura Stampler

How I Quit Google

Spurred by privacy concerns, one writer decided to quit cold turkey — and found what she was searching for

By Julia Angwin

This Test Will Tell You How Fast You Read Compared to the Rest of the U.S.

Can you beat the national average?

By Jessica Roy

Sex, Lies and Hinduism: Why A Hindu Activist Targeted Wendy Doniger’s Book

Dinanath Batra has arm-twisted publisher Penguin India into recalling and destroying American scholar Wendy Doniger’s book, The Hindus: An Alternative History. Here's why he has a problem with it

By TIME Staff

50 Years of Beatlemania

At 8 p.m. on Feb. 9, 1964 an unheard-of 60% of American TVs tuned to CBS to see The Beatles on Ed Sullivan.

By Bob Spitz

Here's Something You Didn't Know About the Beatles: A Very Strange Story from Their Ex-Con Bouncer

The Beatles first arrived in the U.S. fifty years ago, on Feb. 7, 1964 — so now, a story you probably haven't heard about the band

By Lily Rothman

Recording a Dungeons & Dragons Audiobook Was One of the Hardest Things Ice-T Has Ever Done

"You roll a 5 and encounter a... WTF??"

By Kyle Chayka

The Luminaries is Headed to the Small Screen

Eleanor Catton's Booker Prize-winning novel is being made into a TV miniseries

By Megan Gibson / London

9 Other Things J.K. Rowling Got Wrong

The author admitted Hermione should have ended up with Harry, not Ron. What else should should have changed?

By Eliana Dockterman
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