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- Twitter fiction festival: an innovative showcase for storytellingThe second Twitter fiction festival will be held between March 12 and 16, 2014.
- 'Outlander' TV series gets a new trailerThe 'Outlander' historical novels are by Diana Gabaldon.
- 'Gone Girl' film is reported to have 'a whole new third act'The ending of the film version of ' Gone Girl' is reported to be different from the final pages of the novel, which created controversy among readers. What will the change be?
- Love & WarJames Carville and Mary Matalin defend and explain their famously bipartisan marriage.
- Reader recommendation: AmsterdamMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- 'Game of Thrones' trailer: HBO releases a new preview for season 4A new 'Game of Thrones' trailer gives fans a glimpse at what to expect in the new season.
- 'Lean In' will be released in a new edition for college gradsA new version of Sheryl Sandberg's 'Lean In' with extra chapters geared towards graduates will be released this April.
- The Invention of Wings"The Secret Life of Bees" author Sue Monk Kidd weaves her own narrative into the real-life story of abolitionist Sarah Grimké.
- Reader recommendation: One Summer, America 1927Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Poet Amiri Baraka, founder of the Black Arts movement, dies at 79Amiri Baraka, onetime poet laureate of the state of New Jersey, was one of the most important and controversial African American literary voices.
- Want your novel to succeed? Make it more complexMembers of the computer science department at Stony Brook University in New York say their computer model can determine whether a novel will be successful. Some of their findings were surprising.
- Small presses release some of the best books aroundIn 2014, as in years past, it looks as if some of the best new releases will be coming from America's smaller publishers.
- Lifetime develops TV adaptation of 'Flowers in the Attic' sequel 'Petals on the Wind'Lifetime's remake of 'Flowers' has yet to air, but the network announced it's already developing an adaptation of the second novel in 'Flowers' author V.C. Andrews' series.
- Horace and MeCan the man who coined the phrase "Seize the day" still teach us how to live vibrantly?
- Reader recommendation: A Wall in JerusalemMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ tops ebook salesThe Nazi dictator’s controversial manifesto is among the bestselling political books on Amazon and iTunes.
- Bobby Orr: 12 things I learned from Bobby Orr's autobiography, 'Orr: My Story" Here are a dozen things I learned from reading "Orr: My Story," by hockey great Bobby Orr.
- Orr: My StoryBobby Orr finally gets around to telling the story behind one of the greatest careers in the history of professional sports.
- Professor discovers previously unpublished Mary Shelley lettersIn the letters, 'Frankenstein' author Mary Shelley discusses her son, among other subjects.
- Fox News campaigns against unflattering Roger Ailes biographyThe biography by Gabriel Sherman, titled 'The Loudest Voice in the Room,' will hit shelves on Jan. 21, but has already created a firestorm.