An artist from Pixar has turned violent movies with adult themes, like The Professional and Silence of the Lambs, into illustrated children's books. Neat! Inappropriate!   Read Story »

Normally, authors of books don't fall under the purview of http://www.videogum.com. They are not in our wheelhouse, as people who use that expression like to say. But Nicholas Sparks is a little…   Read Story »

James Franco, an American actor best known for his role as Sgt. Dan Carnelli in In the Valley of Elah has been studying creative writing at Columbia University (and also film at New York University?…   Read Story »

This is odd news, because the adults who are excited about it are too old to actually watch the show, and children don't even know what books are ("imagine a bunch of Kindles on a shelf"), but…   Read Story »

Eat Pray Love trailer, you guys: Ugh. I understand that women have historically had a difficult time achieving emotional independence and self-actualization due to the oppressive and sexist…   Read Story »

Now, I don't know what a "book" is, but I agree that this is the way to sell one: Speaking of the intersection between books and noodles, one time I had a dream that I was going to go out to…   Read Story »

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that James Cameron was writing Avatar: The Novel, because if there is one thing that Avatar is best known and most loved for, it is the writing! Said James…   Read Story »

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Look, let's be real for once. Regardless of who you voted for in the last election--John McCain or that TERRORIST--or which political party you believe has the best ideas to lead our country through…   Read Story »

You can listen to a preview of the Tracy Morgan audiobook over at http://www.gawker.com. Apparently he goes off script a lot. Which is fun. Looks like AUDIOBOOKS are the new black!   Read Story »