While J. D. Salinger didn’t think it was a good idea, he conceded a movie adaptation of his novel “The Catcher in the Rye”, may have been possible to bring about. The main sticking point in any adaptation though rests in who could portray the story’s lead, Holden Caulfield.
Yet perhaps the biggest problem will [...]

Reading books seems to be more effective than listening to music, or walking, when it comes to reducing stress.
Reading worked best, reducing stress levels by 68 per cent, said cognitive neuropsychologist Dr David Lewis. Subjects only needed to read, silently, for six minutes to slow down the heart rate and ease tension in the [...]

US author J.D. Salinger who died last week, aged 91 will be remembered for many things, though possibly not by the number of his (published) works:
Since Jerome David Salinger’s death on Wednesday, at the house in New Hampshire that served as his home and self-imposed prison, the torrent of words about the writer’s long, [...]

Alex Carnevale’s list of the The 100 Greatest Science Fiction or Fantasy Novels of All Time.

People who have written a book have equated the experience with running a marathon, and, as with many long distance runners, they feel a sense of great achievement, regardless of how well their book does.
It’s sort of like running a marathon; you have to train to build up to it and maintain some discipline, but [...]

Matt Kish is creating a visual representation of each page from the Signet Classic edition (1992) of Herman Melville’s adventure classic “Moby Dick”… in this instance that will amount to 552 pictures.
Via Coudal Partners.

A list of behaviours that readers of Jenny Crusie’s books consider unacceptable in a romance story heroine.
Keep reminding the hero that I am independent and can take care of myself, while constantly getting into situations where he has to “save” me.

The confessions of a semi-successful author by “Jane Austen Doe”…
Never an enthusiastic employee, I quit my job at age 35 to become a full-time writer, to live life on my own terms. After publishing four books – each of them critically acclaimed, several of them award-winners, none of them big enough sellers to [...]

There are still some authors who prefer to use typewriters – rather than computers – when writing.
“I need the sound of the keys, the keys of a manual typewriter,” he told one interviewer. “The hammers striking the page. I like to see the words, the sentences, as they take shape. It’s an aesthetic [...]

I once spent a few days in Alexandria, Egypt, and found it to be the most intriguing town in the country… and Teresa Levonian Cole’s account of her time there takes me right back:
It is the Alexandria of nostalgia, captured in the poignant poems of Constantine Cavafy, where the architectural whimsy of cornices, [...]