This is Romantic with the capital "R", for the literature movement, not romantic because of any marriage plot. We received thi...

So last week when I blogged about QR Markham's plagiarism I wondered whether he was punking us or just plain stupid. GalleyCat report...

Oh, hai!  Wut r u doin mom? Chaucer looked like a jack-in-the-box, repeatedly popping his head up from behind the laptop to look at me.

Steve McQueen's new movie Shame - about a New York man's sex-addiction problem, portrayed by Michael Fassbender - has received an N...

This week Twitter lit up with the revelation that a new, well-received spy novel - QR Markham's Assassin of Secrets - was heavily lifte...

Lit snob confession:  I used to read romance novels a lot.  I used to sneak them from my mom's room and read all the naughty bits.  Then...

 If you are looking for a great read-aloud story, look no further than The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber.  I so clearly remember havi...

...with coupons and credit cards. Exhibit A: I will make flower arrangements. Exhibit B: I will overdose on Martha Stewart pap...

Yes. Two, count 'em, TWO customers asked where our Christmas sales were at in the store. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS LITTLE BABY JES...

I wanted to see this movie ever since I saw it listed as "pre-production" on Logan Lehrman's IMDB page.  And wanted to see it ...

Viktor has a rather odd job - he writes "living obituaries".  That is, he interviews famous people then files the obituary to wai...

More microreviews! So, woefully behind on my Percy Jackson reading, I snarfed down books two and three during the Readathon. Riorda...