MP3: The Meaning Of A Format by Jonathan Sterne

<i>MP3: The Meaning Of A Format</i> by Jonathan Sterne

Early in MP3: The Meaning Of A Format, the author Jonathan Sterne describes an important—and surprisingly grisly—experiment in the history of audio technology.  read more

Data: A Love Story by Amy Webb

<i>Data: A Love Story</i> by Amy Webb

Author and consultant Amy Webb defines the romantic search described in her memoir Data: A Love Story as a quest not for just a life partner … but a soulmate.   read more

The Adventures of Superhero Girl by Faith Erin Hicks

The Adventures of Superhero Girl by Faith Erin Hicks

Writer & Artist: Faith Erin Hicks Publisher: Dark Horse Release Date: February 13, 2013...  read more

Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett

<i>Percival Everett by Virgil Russell</i> by Percival Everett

First, a word on the title: Percival Everett by Virgil Russell is a book by, that’s right, Percival Everett.   read more

Nemo: Heart of Ice by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill

Nemo: Heart of Ice by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill

Writer: Alan Moore Artist: Kevin O’Neill Publisher: Top Shelf Release Date: February 27, 2013...  read more

Questlove to Release Memoir Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

Questlove to Release Memoir <i>Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove</i>

The Roots' Questlove announced that his memoir Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove will be released this June.  read more

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss

<i>The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo</i> by Tom Reiss

In Django Unchained, a German dentist/bounty hunter lectures Leonardo DiCaprio—cast as a dentally challenged Mississippi planter—on an irrefutable fact: French novelist Alexandre Dumas was a black man.  read more

Thomas Pynchon’s Next Novel Set in New York’s Tech Scene

Thomas Pynchon’s Next Novel Set in New York’s Tech Scene

Thomas Pynchon’s next novel, due out on Sept. 17, concerns the technology scene in Manhattan known as Silicon Alley.  read more

Exclusive DC Comics Preview: "Justice League Dark #17"

Exclusive DC Comics Preview: "Justice League Dark #17"

Writers: Jeff Lemire, Ray Fawkes Artist: Mikel Janin Publisher: DC Release Date: February 27, 2013...  read more

DC to Launch New Batman/Superman Team-Up Series

DC to Launch New <i>Batman/Superman</i> Team-Up Series

The new series, set to debut in June, will be written by Greg Pak (Planet Hulk) who will be teaming with artist Jae Lee (Before Watchmen: Ozymandias).   read more

Justice League of America #1 by Geoff Johns and David Finch

Justice League of America #1 by Geoff Johns and David Finch

Writer: Geoff Johns Artist: David Finch Publisher: DC Comics Release Date: February 20, 2013...  read more

Susceptible by Geneviève Castrée

Susceptible by Geneviève Castrée

Writer & Artist: Geneviève Castrée Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly Release Date: February 19, 2013...  read more

DC Announces New Creative Team for Green Lantern Titles and Spin-Offs

DC Announces New Creative Team for <i>Green Lantern</i> Titles and Spin-Offs

According to a report via "MTV":http://geek-news.mtv.com/?p=110428, DC has officially announced the new creative teams set to take over their various Green Lantern properties.   read more

Julia Child Featured in Female Force Comic Book Series

Julia Child Featured in <i>Female Force</i> Comic Book Series

She's been on television, written cookbooks, been portrayed by Meryl Streep in a movie and now Julia Child will be featured in her very own comic book.  read more

Swann Dives In by Charles Salzberg

<i>Swann Dives In</i> by Charles Salzberg

British writer Stuart Evers addressed the question of mystery fiction as literature, observing that, “...at its best, crime writing offers unique insights into society, psychology, and human behavior. It can be both engaging and literate; compelling and well-written. It can be innovative and surprising, but what it can't be, it seems, is feted in the same way as literary fiction. The most crime writers can hope for is to be told, as Ian Rankin indeed was, that their novels 'almost transcend the genre.' Faint praise indeed.”  read more

The Graphic Canon: Volume 2 edited by Russ Kick

<i>The Graphic Canon: Volume 2</i> edited by Russ Kick

There's something seductive about an impossible project … and what would seem more impossible at first glance than The Graphic Canon?  read more

Black Mask Studios Recruits Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman, More to Develop Original Comics

Black Mask Studios Recruits Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman, More to Develop Original Comics

Established by the team of 30 Days of Night author Steve Niles, HALO-8 Entertainment’s Matt Pizzolo and Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz, the transmedia publishing company Black Mask Studios have now enlisted an impressive crew of writers and artists to pen their first original comic books.   read more

Watch a Teaser for Kelly Oxford's First Book

Watch a Teaser for Kelly Oxford's First Book

Kelly Oxford, the Canadian housewife and mother turned Twitter sensation, is set to release her first book of essays. Entitled Everything’s Perfect When You’re a Liar, the collection is set to be released by Harper Collins.   read more

Exclusive DC Comics Preview: "Batwoman #17"

Exclusive DC Comics Preview: "Batwoman #17"

Batwoman #17 marks the spectacular climax of a storyline that reaches back to the character's introduction to DC's New 52  read more

District 14: Season 1

District 14: Season 1

Writer: Pierre Gabus Artist: Romuald Reutimann Publisher: Humanoids Release Date: February 27, 2013...  read more

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