The New York Times' Janet Maslin has posted a glowing review of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, which goes on sale Tuesday. "Too many popular authors (Thomas Harris) have followed huge hits (The Silence of the Lambs) with terrible embarrassments...

So it turns out that Thomas Pynchon really does sound like The Dude from The Big Lebowski. Tracy Locke of The Penguin Press confirms that the reclusive author narrates the trailer for his new book, Inherent Vice, which we wrote about on Shelf Life...

Since there's no delicate way to introduce the word at the center of Jesse Sheidlower's funny, yet surprisingly informative book, I'll leave it to A Christmas Story's Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley): "The word. The big one. The queen mother of dirty...

Jerry O’Connell (formerly the chubby kid from Stand By Me and currently the lucky, lucky husband of Rebecca Romijn) is set to write a memoir about his experiences as a stay-at-home father of twins, according to GalleyCat. The book, titled Cry, Feed,...