World of the Written Word

The Beckoning Ice It is February 1839, and the ships of the United States Exploring Expedition are thrashing about dreaded Cape Ho...

Deadly Shoals and a belated rave Mea culpa.  Until prompted by Linda Collison , author of Barbados Bound and Surgeon's Mate , I had...

From the GalleyCat at MediaBistro.com Jason Boog reports that Random House has released writer guidelines for four digital imprints, se...

Today I received two flyers. One wanted me to buy a rugby concession ticket, and the other invited me to a supermarket shopping spree. ...

Hobbit hailed as a tourism booster As the whole world knows, the World Premier of the first of The Hobbit trilogy happened in Wellingt...

Xenophobe corrupted dictionary     From Alison Flood in The Guardian Robert Burchfield , an eminent former editor of the Oxfo...

Barbara Hoffert meditates on this Christmas showing in the Library Journal Perhaps it’s the flood of good books, or just the flood of bo...

Picture of the iconic culprit up for bidding Anthony Castellano reports that an auction house is selling a black and white photo of th...

Do you have the brain of a four year old?     There are 4 questions. Don't miss one. 1. How do you put a giraffe into a ref...

Past winner highly critical of "catastrophic" choice A past winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature has reportedly called th...