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The "St. Petersburg Cossacks" hate Vladimir Nabokov and his work, and they're taking this rage out on his former home.

It's a classic example of good flash fiction, but who actualy wrote it? Some say Ernest Hemingway, but the Quote Investigator begs to differ.

Started as a Kickstarter project almost a year ago, Six Finger Films has released the first look at their film based on one chapter of the as-yet-unfinished novel.

After looking at a number of studies, researchers believe “reading to a child in an interactive style raises his or her IQ by over 6 points.”

A tweet on Friday from Random House’s most civilized imprint raised a few eyebrows.

The master of horror surprised some people last week by releasing a 25-page polemic on the need to regulate guns in the U.S. — just for Amazon Kindle.

Toronto-based storytelling site Storybird launched in 2010 and now has over two million members.

A group of Californians have filed a lawsuit against the cyclist and his publisher, claiming his “books should never have been sold as works of non-fiction”.

A group of diehard fans, describing themselves as “Michael Jackson’s Rapid Response Team to Media Attacks”, has attacked Randall Sullivan’s new biography of the King of Pop via his Amazon page.

With Bloomsbury (publisher of the Harry Potter books) reporting improved margins and higher eBook sales, it poses the question: why aren’t authors seeing more money as a result?

The sign saying the cyclist’s books would be moved to the fiction section in a Sydney library was not ‘officially sanctioned’.