License to Read

Couples break up, "YOLO" goes out of style, but the literature you love is forever.

The actor talks to AD about his passion for architecture, the golden days of speakeasies, and what it was like starring in the year’s biggest film, The Great Gatsby

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You know what's better than a night out? A night out with a book...After all, when else will you feel as inspired to pull down a favorite tome and do a dramatic reading than when you’re on your second cocktail?

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When Marilyn Monroe died in August, 1962, she left behind a lot of broken hearts and some good books. 

[Her shelves] included no shortage of great literary works – everything from Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, to Ulysses by James Joyce, to Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky... Woody Guthrie’s Bound For Glory, a work that inspired Bob Dylan and other troubadours, shared shelf space with The Roots Of American Communism by Theodore Draper, still considered the definitive history of the American Communist Party.

'The Kite Runner' celebrates its 10th anniversary...complete with a new foreword by author Khaled Hosseini. It spent almost five years on USA Today's Best-Selling Books list.

Just in time, too: Hosseini's new novel, And the Mountains Echoed, a multi-generational tale of families from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco, arrives May 21. 

There are volumes of poetic tributes honoring love, nature, and even death, but books have frequently been a poet's greatest muse.

During the Oscars on Sunday, there will be lots of glamour, gold and jewels but very few books. Yet before the stars, the lights, the effects and the costumes, there were words.

Due to Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby coming out on Friday, all the talk in the book world is on Gatsby. New York Magazine's Kathryn Shulz admits that she despises the book.

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Aside from scoring book nerd points, these will also help you dominate on trivia night!

In 2001 or 2002, guitarist and singer David Gilmour of Pink Floyd recorded a musical interpretation of William Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 18' at his home studio aboard the historic, 90-foot houseboat the Astoria.

Final Four voting this week!

LONDON — A supernaturally tinged barnyard manual has won Britain's quirkiest literary award, the Diagram Prize for year's oddest book title.

"Goblinproofing One's Chicken Coop" by Reginald Bakeley was awarded the prize Friday by trade magazine The Bookseller.

The book took 38 percent of the votes in a public ballot, beating finalists including "How Tea Cosies Changed the World," "Was Hitler Ill?" and "God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis."

Jimmy Fallon's "Late Night" staff has a knack for finding the most absurd, disturbing and/or hilarious books, including such literary gems as. "Are Women Human?" and, "A Day In The Life Of Canada."

This week, our mouths (and minds!) watered looking at a few delightful book cakes over at Shelf Life. Hungry as we are, we couldn't resist scouring the Internet for more...