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"On Monday, March 13, Slate will launch an exciting new publishing venture: an online novel written in real time, by award-winning novelist Walter Kirn. Installments of the novel, titled The Unbinding, will appear in Slate roughly twice a week from March through June. While novels have been...

In Hollywood, originality is anything but a virtue. Paramount rejected a recent project that had attached stars, an approved script, and a bankable director by telling the producer, "It's a terrific idea; too bad it has not been made into a movie already or we could have done the remake."...

I was driving by a strip club today. (I swear I was just driving by; I didn't even slow down.) The sign said "Break your New Year's resolutions here." It made me laugh. I thought it was pretty good writing, especially for a strip club. I also like, "Lather. Rinse. Repeat." I think it...

NEW YORK -- The indictment of I. Lewis Libby has had one unintended benefit for the former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney: The resurrection of his once forgotten literary career. Used copies of his 1996 novel, "The Apprentice," a thriller set in Japan that includes references to...

Four posts already, one about fitting in here, so I guess I better introduce myself. I enjoy reading "books with Buzz," the Lovely Bones, the Da Vinci Code etc., but I realized that those aren't exactly cutting edge, so I thought I'd try to find some place where people talked about books...