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As a major publisher stops forcing books to have author endorsements, is this the end of the road for the common cover ...

Manning argues that “trying to get blurbs is not a good use of anyone’s time”. He notes that a number of acclaimed titles in ...

In my wilder dreams, I am a bestselling literary novelist, and the jackets of my books are festooned with quotes from the ...

When all novels are thrust upon you as words of genius,’ wrote George Orwell, ‘it is quite natural to assume that all of them ...

I can't believe we have to wait another week for the Philadelphia Eagles to beat the crap out of the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX, I'm going to run ...

Australian winter music festival Splendour In the Grass has announced it won't return for 2025, after cancelling last year's festival two weeks after the official line-up was announced.

‘Walt was really too superhuman’, Lawrence tut-tuts ... to ‘a function’, namely childbirth. In Leaves of Grass, Whitman’s cult of personality was already up and running before the reader reached the ...

A GoFundMe campaign set up by his son has already raised more than $720,000 for Walt Butler, 83, whose Altadena house was consumed by flames Wednesday in the Eaton fire. “I’m still trying to ...