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- Movie 'How I Live Now,' based on a YA novel set during World War III, gets a trailer'How I Live Now' is being adapted into a film starring 'The Host' actress Saoirse Ronan.
- Are Shakespeare's fingerprints all over this 鈥 or not?University of Texas professor Douglas Bruster is claiming lines of 'The Spanish Tragedy' by Thomas Kyd were written by the Bard.
- Harlequin moves further into the digital marketplaceHarlequin announces an e-book-only imprint, in addition to planning for many e-book originals through other imprints.
- Let Freedom RingPhotos by Look staffer Stanley Tretick and accompanying text by Kitty Kelley vividly evoke a time when the US was pregnant with both conflict and promise.
- Reader recommendation: ZealotMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Bestselling books the week of 8/15/13, according to IndieBound* What's selling best at independent bookstores across America
- Ron Burgundy will write a memoirRon Burgundy will be the name behind a book titled 'Let Me Off at the Top:聽My Classy Life and Other Musings.' Ron Burgundy is Will Ferrell's alter ego in the 2004 film 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.'
- 'The Wizard of Oz' as ... a TV medical drama?CBS is reportedly developing L. Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz' as a medical drama set in New York.
- 'Harry Potter' new covers will grace trade paperback versions as of Aug. 27The new 'Harry Potter' covers, by artist and writer Kazu Kibuishi, were created to honor the 15th anniversary of the US publication of 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.'
- The Big DisconnectDo your kids a favor and read this book.
- Reader recommendation: Savage PeaceMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Wattpad launches crowdsourcing section to support authorsThe writing website now encourages members to support the projects of authors, who pledge a fundraising goal to be met in one month.
- Film adaptation of 'The Lost Child of Philomena Lee' stars Judi Dench, Steve CooganA movie adaptation of writer Martin Sixsmith's book stars Judi Dench as a woman looking for her long-lost son and Coogan as Sixsmith.
- Kelly Clarkson, museum vie for Jane Austen ringKelly Clarkson bought a ring owned by Jane Austen at an auction. But British Austen-lovers are doing their best to keep this treasure on their side of the Atlantic.聽
- Is assigned summer reading a bad idea?Many schools require students to read over the summer. Is this diminishing the joy of finding books and creating reluctant readers?聽
- George R.R. Martin's Santa Fe movie theater opens for businessThe Jean Cocteau Cinema opened this past weekend with a showing of the movie 'Forbidden Planet.' Martin himself was in attendance.
- 'Harry Potter' celebration at Universal Orlando will include cast Q&As, wand lessons'A Celebration of Harry Potter' is scheduled for this January. Will it include a look at the new portion of the 'Wizarding World' park?
- George Orwell: A Life in LettersThe letters of George Orwell (real name: Eric Arthur Blair) suggest a life beset by internal conflict.
- Reader recommendation: David CrockettMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- 15 highest-earning authors of 2013 Check out the 15 highest-earning authors of 2013. This year's top-grossing author only began writing in 2009.