This year marks the 10th annual National Novel Writing Month, meaning that somewhere out there are people who have written at least one book every year for a decade.This event, started by writer Chris Baty,...

John Hodgman, knowledge-haver, PC, and occasional "Daily Show" correspondent, participated in a live chat at the Washington Post yesterday and expounded on being mean to Jon Stewart, the myth of Chicago, which type of computer...

That was Rob Simpson's question after reports last year of the price tag for the Iraq War hitting $1,000,000,000,000. And how much is a trillion dollars, anyway? How can you even comprehend that number?Simpson, 51,...

For more than twenty years people have been picking up books because of the design skills of Chip Kidd. The iconic "Jurassic Park" cover, the snazzy Elmore Leonard reissues, David Sedaris' "Naked," even the New...

M.J. Rose, who first became famous for self-promoting her book "Lip Service" into bestselling success in 1998 (it became the first self-published book to be selected by the Doubleday Book Club), is now offering her...