Muggles play Quidditch in Central Park - CNEWS
NEW YORK (AP) — In J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, Quidditch is a game like soccer played by wizards and witches on flying broomsticks. The real-life version played by non-magical people known as Muggles stays earthbound, but the matches can be exciting nonetheless. The International

Book Publishers Agree Change Coming; Details Murky - Post Chronicle
Giants and upstarts of publishing gathered at the annual BookExpo America here this week agreed e-books will transform the business, although exactly how it will all shake out remains unclear. From biggest publishers to newcomers there was agreement on one thing -- the big change will come when

Book review: Prose. Poems. A Novel by Jamie Iredell - Examiner
Any time I read a book that experiments with form I’m both excited and skeptical: Is it new and necessary or is it dressing on a window with no view? Jamie Iredell’s first book, Prose. Poems. A Novel. , published by Chicago-based fledgling Orange

Book review: 'The Invisible Bridge' by Julie Orringer - Los Angeles Times
a "big" novel to carry into the summer holidays — one in which you can lose yourself without the guilty suspicion that you're slumming — then Julie Orringer's "The Invisible Bridge stories titled "How to Breathe Underwater."

Chapel Hill author picked to write next James Bond book - Raleigh News & Observer
James Bond is back. A new novel featuring secret code name "Project X," and will be written by American novelist Jeffery Deaver, best known for his series of thrillers featuring forensic genius Lincoln Rhyme. It's scheduled to be published May 28