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The Construct of Sexual Orientation
It didn't take long before complaints began to circulate on Twitter about the image used on the cover of this week's Publishers Weekly to illustrate the annual feature on African-American book publishing. Read More
In early May, White House Counsel Greg Craig circulated a memo inside the West Wing. Part of a series of memos on protocol, it explained how to deal with writers researching books and articles on the White House.
It started with an Angel Tree.
One Christmas, Olivia Stinson met kids whose names hung on a Christmas tree at her church. Their names were there because their parents weren't; they were in prison.
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A reporter pressed Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Monday on whether the White House is concerned about the fate of newspapers. 
"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts." (William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style," 1918)
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will produce its last printed edition on Tuesday and become an Internet-only news source, the Hearst Corporation said on Monday, making it by far the largest American newspaper to take that leap. 
The high-risk, questionable venture is a staple of biblical narratives -- Noah building the ark, the Israelites heading out into the wilderness without any provisions, the idea that a couple of loaves and fish could feed a crowd. So maybe Rick Warren was reading Scripture instead of the business pages when he decided to expand his ministry this year by launching a glossy new magazine with a $10 cover price. 
Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., has launched a quarterly magazine called "Purpose Driven Connection," along with a bundle of personal growth tools designed for small group implementation. 
The publisher of a disputed Holocaust memoir has canceled the book, adding the name Herman Rosenblat to an increasingly long list of literary fakers and ending with a heartbreaking crash his story _ embraced by Oprah Winfrey among others _ of meeting his future wife at a concentration camp. Read More
Dec. 9 marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of John Milton, and fans around the world are celebrating with literary events, exhibits and readings of his epic poem Paradise Lost.
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