We ran an excerpt from a then-untitled novel; it didn't take Maaza Mengiste long to get a book deal.

Nice to see this sort of thing happen these days.

Here comes a prequel!

Do you enjoy Dan Kois's Vulture posts? Then you'll probably like his book, we'd imagine.

Sam Anderson's favorite books of the year range from the super-short stories of Lydia Davis to the mammoth work of William T. Vollmann. All have obsession in common.

Searing memoirs, nautical adventures, and an Afro-bedecked superhero with all the honeys on his side.

And to awesome invented terms like the "Last Great White American Player Syndrome."

Plus: 'True Blood' gets its Alcide!

Lethem: “I felt starved for something booklike in this book-resembling object.”

Kirkus was always known, to the booksellers and industry reporters who relied on its write-ups of forthcoming titles, as the cranky review house.

When publishers release e-book and hardcover editions of their books simultaneously, believe it or not, the hardcovers sell less.

"I'm tired of being misunderstood. I will show you the tears, fears, and sweat. I will open my heart and reveal the good in my life as well as all the drama."

Was watching John Stockton play really "like being trapped in the missionary position for two decades"?

And he loved 'Breaking Dawn.'

Reding: "In a way, it's not as much about meth as it was about small-town America. Meth was the lens."

This Friday, Cormac McCarthy will auction off the portable Olivetti manual typewriter on which he wrote 'The Road' and other novels.

No matter how passionately you love a florid, overwritten, hilarious book, the movie can be EVEN BETTER.

Of two whole people.

On Palin's new book: "I can only imagine how many typos will make it through."

Prepare to hear the term "The Straw We" bandied about at holiday parties.