Disney
Partners with Bestselling Children's Authors for New Star Wars Adaptations
Disney Publishing Worldwide will release four new children's books tied to the original Star Wars film trilogy, starting in October 2014. Authors Tom Angleberger, Tony DiTerlizzi, Adam Gidwitz, and R.J. Palacio are reinterpreting the original Star Wars saga storylines in advance of the December 2015 release of the next Star Wars film, Episode VII. more »
Gabriel Garcia
Marquez Dies at 87: The Nobel-prize winning Colombian author is
considered by some "the most significant Spanish-language author since
Miguel de Cervantes."
New Murakami
Book Out In Japan: Some fans lined up at midnight, at a Tokyo
bookstore, to get a copy of the author's first short story collection in nine
years.
'Fun Home' Road
Trips to S.C.: The cast of the Broadway play (adapted from
Alison Bechedl's graphic memoir) is traveling to College of Charleston to
perform scenes from the play, after the school was threatened with state budget
cuts for recommending the book to its freshmen.
Waterstones
Opens New Location: The Hampshire location is the British book
chain's first new store since since 2008.
The Genre Debate:
Novelist Juliet McKenna argues, in "The Guardian," that sci-fi
travels farther than literary fiction.
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