November 22, 2009, 7:25 AM / THURSDAY, 7p.m.: Spit at Spot Coffee, weekly open mike poetry/spoken word performance event, 227 Delaware Ave.

The literary world recently was treated to an unexpected surprise when the estate of novelist Vladimir Nabokov decided to publish an unfinished novel that he had wished burned upon his death.

Anthony Joseph on politics of black literature. Up and coming reading in Vienna next week.

BEIJING: Beijing boy Liu Hanzhao, 9, is starting his day with reading aloud Confucian classics for 20 minutes after breakfast.

TORONTO - Books about civil war and the Great Depression have won Canadian Children's Literature Awards.

Share + Nov 18, 2009 11:32 pm US/Eastern 1 of 1 Author Colum McCann , Frank McCourt's daughter Maggie McCourt and her daughter Chiara McCourt speak during a memorial service for Frank McCourt at Symphony Space on Oct.

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A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen . Edited by Susannah Carson.

Necessity is really the mother of invention when we see this idiom being incarnated in our daily lives.

Contemporary Santhali literature has taken off in a big way since it became an official language of Jharkhand in 2003, but it has not come of age because the government has not added it to the list of official Indian languages, says a pioneer of the Santhali book trade.