The Walking Dead Author Robert Kirkman on His AMC Show - Nymag.com
Regular readers of our blog probably know how excited we are for The Walking Dead , AMC's upcoming Frank Darabont–produced TV adaptation of Robert Kirkman's awesome long-running zombie-apocalypse comic-book series. Premiering in October, Dead

Note to Washington: Read and react to Richard Clarke's - Network World Fusion
Digg I recently finished Richard Clarke's new book, "Cyber War," and I have but two words for the former cyber czar -- thank you. I've probably read as much about this subject as Washington insiders and in my opinion, Clarke's book immediately

Writers Can Now Self-Publish on Apple's iBookstore - Paste Magazine
Who needs a book publisher when a 13-digit ISBN , proper formatting, epubcheck 1.0.5 validation and an iTunes Store account is all it takes to start selling novels in the iBookstore? According to Mac Life , those requirements along with a US Tax ID and an Intel-based Mac running OS X 10.5 or later

Book Asks: Is Internet Ruining Our Minds? - ABC News
NEW YORK (Reuters) - When author Nicholas Carr began researching his book on whether the Internet is ruining our minds, he restricted his online access and e-mail and turned off his Twitter and Facebook accounts. His new book "The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains" argues the latest

Sam Mendes to Direct New Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Musical - TheaterMania.com
Sam Mendes will direct the new stage musical version of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , according to a report on Deadline.com . As previously reported , the musical will feature a book by playwright David Greig and music from the songwriting team of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman

Panorama of Tiananmen Square - Associated Press
increased, said the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in its Chinese Rule of Law Blue Book released in February. Experts like Pi Yiyun, a professor of criminology at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, are skeptical

Blair Underwood aspires to book stardom - Denver Post
NEW YORK—Blair Underwood hopes to make it big in books. The actor is starring in a series of scenes for a new digital book technology called Vook, which combines digital reading with high-quality video. He debuts in "From Cape Town with Love," the

Supreme Court nominee Kagan's quotes on Senate confirmation process in book review - My Fox 8
Excerpts from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's review of Stephen Carter's book "A Confirmation Mess," in which she talks about the Senate's Supreme Court confirmation process: — "It is an embarrassment that the president and Senate do not always insist, as a threshold requirement, that a

Enlisting in ‘The Battle’ - Houma Courier
I made little money and spent months every year driving around America in a van with four other guys,” Brooks writes in his new book, “The Battle.” Grueling Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, Heritage’s cross-town