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Amazon to Start Publishing Its Own Books

Continuing their dominance of the print industry, Amazon is now starting its own publishing company. In the coming weeks it will publish 122 books spanning multiple genres, poised to compete alongside major existing publishing houses in New York and instilling fear in the hearts of publishers everywhere.  read more

"Pandora For Books" BookLamp Launches Today

Booklamp.org went live earlier today, offering a free service similar to the wildly popular Pandora internet radio service, but for books.   read more

Colin Meloy to Headline Decatur Book Festival

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival, one of the largest in the country, has announced its lineup....  read more

2010 Person of the Year in Nonfiction: Mark Twain

Since the quintessential American author was not himself available for interview, we decided to do the next best thing and talk to Hal Holbrook, the man who's spent as much time as anyone getting inside the author's head.  read more

Awesome of the Day: The AJC Decatur Book Festival

This weekend, more than 300 authors and thousands of readers will descend upon our little city of Decatur, Ga., for the largest independent book festival in the U.S. Jonathan Franzen will launch his new novel Freedom here. He’ll be joined by George Dawes Green (founder of The Moth), Pulitzer Prize winners David Finkel and Nathasha Trethewey and Paste books editor Charles McNair....  read more

The 10 Best Books About Writing

Writing is hard. Not for everyone, mind you, but there are some people that land triple axles or swallow swords, and we don't consider this the norm. Thankfully, the following gifted writers have shared the secret that their best words weren't a gift at all, but the fruits of frustrating, wearisome work.  read more

William Faulkner Lectures Get Digitized for the Internet

Prolific, legendary and no-doubt verbose writer William Faulkner would likely have had a hard time adjusting to abbreviated forms of social media like Twitter. But his work has managed to find a new life on theiInternet, through the newly digitized and streamable audio files of his lectures at University of Virginia, where he served as Writer-in-Residence in 1957 and 1958....  read more

Our Favorite Musicians-Turned-Authors

Recently, we told you about singer/songwriter Josh Ritter entering new territory by penning a novel, and it got us thinking: which other singers have ventured onto literary soil? Turns out, quite a few, and — more often than not — they write about topics that are a bit unexpected. Here’s a compilation of some of the more off-the-beaten-path/noteworthy projects. (You’ll notice we left autobiographies off this list. After all, any old ghostwriter can crank out one of those.)...  read more

Top 10 Best Debut Novels of the Decade (2000-2009)

Today, we pay tribute to some of the best new literary voices of the past ten years...  read more

Paste's Holiday Gift Guide for Book Worms

It’s difficult to buy gifts for book lovers—you never know what books they already have or if they’ll approve of your selection. Here are some reading-related gift ideas for the book worms in your life: ...  read more