Semiconductor giant Intel has taken an outside-the-box approach to shaping future technologies by hiring sci-fi writers to use their… Jeff Mills | 08.14.2011 | Comments (5)
So, are you one of those people that's inadvertently given away the crucial details of a previously-unseen movie in conversation? Or maybe… Alex Heigl | 08.11.2011 | Comments (6)
Okay, so that headline is kind of misleading. There are multiple version of the Marvel universe banging around, and in one of them (the Ultimate… Alex Heigl | 08.2.2011 | Comments (17)
The dearth of female artists, writers, and characters in mainstream comics is nothing new. However due to recent criticism, DC Comics'… Jessica Gentile | 07.31.2011 | Comments (14)
You may know Kurt Vonnegut as the author of Slaughterhouse-Five and other novels, or you may just know him as that dude that appeared in Back To… Jeff Mills | 07.29.2011 | Comments (41)
Bill Keller's writerly ambitions have come crashing to the ground, after he announced today that his column in the New York Times Magazine… Ben Reininga | 07.25.2011 | Comments (2)
Bible lovers listen up: The Common English Bible is upon us, and this one is built for the twenty-first century. In a four-year, $3.5 million… Jeff Mills | 07.21.2011 | Comments (4)
In bad news for readers, booksellers (and of course, the thousands of people who work in its stores), Borders announced yesterday that it will… Danielle Gibson | 07.20.2011 | Comments (19)
Isn't it terrible when you realize that two things you really like hate each other? Like when your best friend confesses he's always kind… Ben Reininga | 07.19.2011 | Comments (78)
It turns out Sarah Palin was a poet, and she didn't even know it. Hart Seely, writing for Slate in 2008, kicked off the Palin-poetry movement… Jeff Mills | 07.5.2011 | Comments (8)
Who would have imagined Scientology pamphlets being passed around as samizdat in 2011 Russia? But that may happen soon as a Moscow court recently… Jeff Mills | 07.2.2011 | Comments (57)
As many Hooksexup readers pointed out, the scene in Bristol Palin's new memoir describing the first time she had sex with Levi Johnston comes off… Virginia Smith | 06.28.2011 | Comments (12)
To inhale or not to inhale, that is the question. South African anthropologist Francis Thackeray thinks he may have discovered the true source of… Jessica Gentile | 06.27.2011 | Comments (1)
Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road, based on a series of shambolic, mid-century cross-country trips taken by the author and friends… Jeff Mills | 06.26.2011 | Comments (5)
Independent bookstores are now faced with the unthinkable: charging admission for author readings and signings. With competition like Amazon… Jeff Mills | 06.23.2011 | Comments (5)
As if I needed another reason to be bemused by poor, sad Keanu, the actor has penned a book based on his Sad Keanu persona, an internet meme… Danielle Gibson | 06.22.2011 | Comments (6)
We previously told you about a book that decried Sesame Street as a sneaky vehicle for left-wing propaganda, and now, out next month, we have… Jeff Mills | 06.19.2011 | Comments (19)
Bristol Palin's book Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far doesn't hit shelves until next week, but the part everyone's actually… Virginia Smith | 06.18.2011 | Comments (68)
An interesting New York Craigslist ad has recently surfaced, looking for a worker-bee writer to churn out prose in the style of bestselling… Jeff Mills | 06.17.2011 | Comments (7)
Samuel L. Jackson may have read it first, but Werner Herzog gives him some stiff competition with his rendition of everyone's favorite… Jessica Gentile | 06.16.2011 | Comments (6)