News Around the Net

Sean Penn is in talks to play Max Perkins, the editor for F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe and others, in a biopic.  Who else is ready to cast Fitzgerald and Hemingway?

Why lying in historical fiction is a good thing.  Because then William Wallace wouldn't have been Edward III's father, duh.

Something useful to almost all of us:  Matt Stewart, author of The French Revolution, tells us how to generate first novel karma.

Memorable last words of literary legends.  How to go out like a gangster, literarily speaking.

A story of ebook prejudice.  Coffee shops trying to slow the revolution!

Find that reading books is losing some of its kick?  Maybe a good literary drinking game is just what you need.