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    Andrew Losowsky

    Andrew Losowsky

    Senior Books Editor, The Huffington Post

  • Neil Gaiman Announces First Video Game

    Surprisingly few well-known authors have worked on video games. This isn't the first time that Gaiman has tried to make a game, he told Mashable. "The first [video game] I remember being involved with...there were several Sandman games going back to the days of CD-ROM.

  • PHOTO: Polanski Victim's Book Cover Hides Shocking Twist

    The woman who Roman Polanski illegally had sex with in 1977 when she was 13 years old has written her memoir - and its cover hides a shocking twist. The book is called The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanksi, and will be published in September by Atria Books. Its cover, just released, features an intense image of Samantha Geimer taken less than three weeks before the rape, which took place during a modeling shoot in 1977.

  • Most Misleading Book Cover Ever?

    The latest edition of Flowers in the Attic came out a few years ago, published by Pocket Books. It was a reprint of a popular story first published in 1979, written by bestselling novelist V.C. Andrews, who died in 1986.

  • 'Fight Club' Sequel In The Works

    Chuck Palahniuk has confirmed that he's working on a sequel to the bestselling Fight Club that became a cult movie starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton - and this time it's going to be a graphic novel. Chelsea Cain has been introducing me to artists and creators from Marvel, DC and Dark Horse, and they’re walking me through the process. It will likely be a series of books that update the story ten years after the seeming end of Tyler Durden.

  • WATCH: George R.R. Martin Smashes Guitar At Concert

    George R.R. Martin smashed a guitar on stage last to express his "anger" at comedy music duo Paul & Storm, with the help of Neil Gaiman. It occurred at Comic-Con in San Diego, in reaction to their parody song "Write Like The Wind (George R.R. Martin)", which went viral last year.

  • Orson Welles On Dating Marilyn Monroe (NEW BOOK)

    My Lunches With Orson, edited by Peter Biskind ($28, Metropolitan) is a book containing transcripts of a series of lunchtime conversations between Orson Welles and his friend, director Henry Jaglom, in the early 1980s, when the director was in his late 60s. The book is described by literary website The Millions as "entertaining, salacious reading for those of us who enjoy old Hollywood gossip delivered with exquisite nastiness." He calls Humphrey Bogart "both a coward and a very bad fighter,” and says that Katherine Hepburn “laid around the town like nobody’s business.” And he also describes dating a young Marilyn Monroe.

  • 7 Great Literary Feuds

    Recently, Frederick Seidel reviewed Rachel Kushner’s new novel, The Flamethrowers in the New York Review of Books. The review was so controversial that Nicholas Miriello responded to Seidel in the Los Angeles Review of Books with this assessment of Seidel’s critique, “he cruelly summarizes key portions of the text until they are rendered mid-cult trash, giving it only a superficial reading while never daring to interrogate the novel’s core themes or interests.” (Disclosure: Miriello is a Senior Editor at The Huffington Post.) As authors and critics continue to butt heads, we thought we would revisit some of our favorite literary rivalries.

  • John Grisham Initially Banned From Guantanamo

    Guards told a military defense attorney Captain Justin Swick that two of Grisham's books had been "rejected for content" when he tried to deliver them to his client, Sufiyan Barhoumi, in both print and audiobook editions. There is a library in the military-run prison for those being held, including books by Danielle Steele, C.S. Lewis, John le Carré and Charles Dickens, the Guardian has reported.

  • 8 Most Evil First Names

    In his books including Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Eating the Dinosaur and Killing Yourself to Live, author and pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman has taken on topics as diverse as reality television, rock and roll, porn, the Unabomber and Tom Cruise.

  • Story Of Oscar Wilde's Last Shirt

    Oscar Wilde’s last shirt owes its survival to being in the wash when he died in Paris on November 30, 1900. Had it not been, his close friend and literary executor, Robert Ross, would almost certainly have disposed of it, as he did Oscar’s other personal possessions of no monetary or sentimental value. It survived thanks to the Dupoirier family, who owned the Hôtel d’Alsace, where Wilde was a long-term resident.

  • WATCH: Holden Caulfield Diagnosed By Psychiatrist

    The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger was published 62 years ago today. This classic tale of Holden Caulfield, told from the point of view of the protagonist as he looks back on some of his adventures while confined in a psychiatric hospital with an unnamed diagnosis, has sold more than 60 million copies worldwide, and continues to be a high school favorite. The reclusive author Salinger died in 2010, and a new documentary about him is being released later this year.

  • JK Rowling Wrote A Book Under A Pseudonym!

    J.K. Rowling has written a crime novel called The Cuckoo's Calling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, according to the Daily Telegraph. Rowling is reported as saying to the Sunday Times of London, “I had hoped to keep this secret a little longer because being Robert Galbraith has been such a liberating experience. The novel was published in April by Sphere in the UK - the same imprint at Little, Brown as her first fiction novel after Harry Potter, The Casual Vacancy.

  • Check Out This 3D Printed Book!

    3D printers have been used to create all manner of objects, and now artist Tom Burtonwood has created, and made available the plans for, a book. "I have been thinking for some time how it would be nice to produce a book of textures and reliefs," he wrote on Thingiverse, where he also made available the plans for people to download. "The impetus for this project was a call for submissions from the Center for Book and Paper here in Chicago at Columbia College.

  • 'The Great Gypsy'?!

    Summer reading lists are a common thing for schools - but usually the books on the list actually exist. A list produced by a Long Island school district contains so many errors that it would almost be funny if it weren't for how terrible some of them are.

  • WATCH: How Faithful Is New Netflix Series To The Book?

    "Orange is the New Black" is a new TV series produced by Netflix, based on Piper Kerman's memoir of her experiences of serving a 14-month sentence in a women's prison in 2004. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today.

  • Amazon Teams Up With George R.R. Martin

    Amazon is launching a new comics imprint, featuring adaptations of work by George R.R. Martin, Hugh Howey and Neal Stephenson, it was announced today in a press release. Jet City Comics will produce both digital and paper comics. "My fans have been clamoring for the return of Dunk & Egg ever since the graphic novels of ‘The Hedge Knight’ and ‘The Sworn Sword’ went out of print several years ago, so I am delighted to announce that Jet City Comics is bringing them back—newly formatted for digital readers, and in paper for those who still prefer the traditional formats. Hugh Howey's bestselling Wool is being adapted into a comic that will be published in six individual comics starting in October.

  • 'I Punched A Window Over A Typo'

    When we are lost in the mazelike tunnels of our psychological wounds, it is like seeing the world through the distorted reflection of a fun-house mirror. After the effects of berserker rage wore off and I calmed down, I was brought back to reality. In his book Man’s Search for Meaning, psychiatrist Victor Frankl says we should not excuse people’s crimes, but hold them accountable for their actions and help them change for the better through rehabilitation.

  • Amazon Names Best Books Of 2013 So Far

    Amazon has named its best books of 2013 so far, and there are some unusual choices from its editors. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today. 1. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson: What if you could be born again and again?

  • Where Can Self-Published Books Get Reviewed?

    With few exceptions, major news publications do not review indie books, even though more than 235,000 titles were self-published as of 2011. This lack of coverage in traditional media outlets, however, has not stopped indies from their rise. In May 2013 alone, according to Digital Book World, at least ten self-published books were best sellers, including The Bet by Rachel Van Dyken, Twisted Perfection by Abbi Glines, Real by Katy Evans and Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1–5) by Hugh Howey.

  • WATCH: Salinger Documentary Trailer Leaves Questions Unanswered

    The first trailer for the forthcoming documentary movie "Salinger," about the life of the famous recluse author, has appeared on Yahoo! Movies, and it looks intriguing. It sells Salinger's life as one filled with pain and tragedy, and also seems to feature an actor dramatizing his writing process and breakdowns against a background of projections of his childhood. The movie is listed on IMDB as appearing on September 6th, and being currently in post production. According to the cast list on that page, the author Elizabeth Frank is the only prominent female voice in the movie, which includes the thoughts of Judd Apatow, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Danny DeVito.