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By Nadine Epstein and Rebecca Frankel In the early 1960s, Bob Dylan performed at tiny Greenwich Village folk clubs, acoustic guitar strapped across his compact shoulders, harmonica perched on a metal rack around his slender neck. His chord changes were...

Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Roadside Picnic is a book about aliens in which no aliens appear. Rather, one character hypothesizes, aliens seemed to have zipped carelessly around Earth and strewed it with trash—like roadside picnickers...

This post is sponsored by The Cruelty by Scott Bergstrom Taken meets The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Bourne Identity in this action-packed debut thriller (optioned for film by Jerry Bruckheimer) about a girl who must train as an assassin to...

With each passing month, comic companies release their solicitations for the upcoming months, usually two-three months in advance. We, as the consumer, get an idea of what to expect in the coming months, like what new books are debuting or what books...

November/December 2013 Kevin Larimer Self-published author Jennifer Ciotta, literary agent Kristin Nelson, and independent publishing entrepreneur Richard Nash discuss the creative opportunities, challenges, and rewards of self-publishing. Page 1...