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If not for the Meiji Restoration, Tokugawa Iehiro might be running Japan. Instead, the new head of one of Japan's most eminent dynasties, which ruled from 1603 to 1863, spends [...]

Eleanor Brown Writing to Answer a Question The idea of the struggling novelist may be cliche, but Eleanor Brown--our general fiction judge--lends honesty and depth to the notion because she's [...]

John Ed Bradley played center for Louisiana State University's football team, but had really wanted to be a writer since those days. His struggles after playing for LSU and to finding his way to writing his own books are discussed.

The opinions of readers on an article 'Marketing Myopia' written by Theodore Levitt, are presented.

Associate Professor, Writer and Cultural Critic Purdue University Roxane Gay is one of the hottest feminist writers in a time that is celebrating feminism. The Purdue professor's provocative novels, nonfiction [...]

Nonprofit Philadelphia radio station WHYY FM sat down with Philadelphia Newspapers CEO Brian Tierney and Philadelphia Daily News Senior Writer Will Bunch on Tuesday to discuss their differences of opinion [...]

Four years ago this month, with E&P's Joe Strupp, I explored in a number of articles the belated or conflicted media response to the 'swiftboating' of Sen. John Kerry, then [...]

If you ask a network executive about the issue of diversity, you're sure to hear the phrases 'good for business' and 'right thing to do.' After years of debate and [...]

Even after more than 30 years, readers are still eager to follow the stories set in the small Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon (population: about 1,200). After a four-year hiatus, [...]

We think it's a record--there are nine mass market bestsellers debuting on this week's chart, and seven of them are among the top 10. Another first-time event is a Nora [...]

Tolkien-related books fly off the shelves long before the box office results are in It may seem silly to talk about word-of-mouth for a 50-year-old book, but that's exactly what's [...]

Robin Cook's name is synonymous with medical thrillers. He's landed many books of this kind on the national charts over the last two decades. His latest, Shock, focuses on subjects [...]

Sandra Brown is another favorite author who also manages to land a number of books on the charts each year. Her latest from Warner, Envy, lands in the #2 hardcover [...]

The public's seemingly unending fascination with the late Princess of Wales continues with her offspring, as scrutinized by Christopher Andersen in Diana's Boys: William and Harry and the Mother They [...]

The Ritual Bath, Faye Kellerman's first book to star Lt. Peter Decker and his Orthodox Jewish wife, Rina Lazarus, was published in 1990 and won the Macavity Award for Best [...]

That's what Nicholas Evans did with his debut novel, The Horse Whisperer, back in 1995. The Delacorte title went on to become one of the fastest-selling first novels in publishing [...]

While Evans and Margolin are racking up sales at the chains, the newest hot title on the indie and regional track is Leif Enger's debut novel, Peace Like a River. [...]

Phillip Margolin's eighth bestseller, The Associate, is following the same path as his previous seven--right onto the national bestseller charts, landing today in our #11 spot. It's his second book [...]

Who is he? Professor of sociology at the London School of Economics, Sennett chairs the Cities Programme, studying the impact on our lives of the built environment. An American, Sennett [...]

I became a Harry Potter fan during a recent bout with the flu, when I felt too 'blah' to concentrate on what I regarded as more pressing reading. Harry, in [...]

In 'Stranger Than Fiction,' a nondescript IRS auditor discovers that he is actually a character in a novel and that the author plans to kill him off. Dismayed by the [...]

AP--In this comer, ladies and gentlemen, we have 'The South Beach Diet.' In this comer, 'Bud Light.' The world's largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch Cos., said that the popular South Beach Diet [...]

The Provocateur EL James Photographed by WESLEY MANN on Dec. 5 at The Beverly Hills Hotel. No one had more of an impact on publishing in $012 than EL James. [...]

The theme of this issue is the arts, which, strictly speaking, we mostly think of as painting, sculpture, music, dance, drama, film, and architecture. For some people, however, that's far [...]

I don't say that just because for decades he taught English at a Connecticut high school or because he went on to create a writing program, first at Connecticut College, [...]

They're new, but they're far from green. This year's 'freshman class' of writers in Oscar contention--which includes Michael Arndt ('Little Miss Sunshine'), Andrea Berloff ('World Trade Center'), Zach Helm ('Stranger [...]

Time was, when the first novel, more often than not, was a proving ground for talents as yet unaccustomed to the long haul of book-length fiction: a launching pad toward [...]