J.K. Rowling Announces New Book, The Casual Vacancy

By Kristen Blanton at 5:05 PM on April 12, 2012

Today, J.K. Rowling announced the title of her adult novel. The Casual Vacancy is set for a Sept. 27 worldwide release. Little Brown announced the details. "When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock.  read more

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Watch Four New Harry Potter Clips

By Caitlin Peterkin at 12:01 PM on July 6, 2011

It’s more than a week away for we Americans, but Harry Potter fans across the pond have already been camping out in London’s Trafalgar Square for Thursday’s world premiere of the franchise’s finale....  read more

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J.K. Rowling Reveals "Pottermore" Details

By Caitlin Peterkin at 11:44 AM on June 23, 2011

Last week, J.K. Rowling unveiled a mysterious website called “Pottermore,” which displayed the words “Coming Soon” with the author’s signature scrawled at the bottom. Two owls on the page hyperlinked to a YouTube channel, which was little more than a countdown to the date June 23, 2011....  read more

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Watch the Final Harry Potter Trailer

By Caitlin Peterkin at 11:22 AM on June 17, 2011

It’s here....  read more

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J.K. Rowling Teases New Potter Website

By Caitlin Peterkin at 3:13 PM on June 16, 2011

If the books weren’t enough evidence, the J.K. Rowling’s newest project proves that the Harry Potter mastermind knows how to build suspense....  read more

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A Dozen of Literature's Greatest Jerks

By Lindsay Eanet and Ani Vrabel at 7:00 AM on August 9, 2010

The other day, while listening to LCD Soundsystem’s “Dance Yrself Clean” the line, “Talking like a jerk / Except you are an actual jerk / And living proof that sometimes friends are mean” started knocking around in our heads, and it got us to thinking about all the jerks we’ve met in our lifetimes. From there, we started thinking about all the jerks we’ve read about in our lifetimes—there are plenty of literary characters we’ve encountered that almost make the real-life jerks seem tolerable. Below are a dozen that particularly stand out....  read more

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