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But how big is too big? Steve Wasserman, former editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review, served as editorial director of Times Books and publisher of Hill & Wang, an imprint of Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Americans puzzling over the role of today's powerful corporations - Bain Capital, Goldman Sachs, Google - may profit from considering the example of the United Fruit Company.

An advisory to readers who may be driving on this Memorial Day weekend: If, as you travel the nation's highways, you spot a hitchhiker with a wiry build, a pencil mustache and a mischievous look in his eyes, you might not wish to pick him up.

Americans puzzling over the role of today's powerful corporations - Bain Capital, Goldman Sachs, Google - may profit from considering the example of the United Fruit Company.

With names such as Lauren Beukes,SL Grey and Lily Herne paving the way for South African genre fiction, and making an international footprint, it's good to know we can add another name to that list.

Rebecca Forster, the best selling independent author of The Witness Series, recently wrote a blog post about "The X-Treme Novelist," naming four of her favorites including yours truly, Anonymous-9, Arthur Levine and Tim Greaton. She classifies these types of authors as those who "shred boundaries" and who are not afraid of market demands upon their creative processes.

Over his 13 years as ABC News president, David Westin says his biggest regret was in not heeding Peter Jennings ' skepticism about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Raymond Stock, former visiting assistant professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies at Drew University , lived in Cairo for 20 years before being deported by the regime of Hosni Mubarak in December 2010, apparently due to his 2009 article criticizing then-Culture minister Farouk Hosni's bid to head UNESCO in Foreign Policy Magazine.

This letter to the President of the New York Public Library, Anthony Marx, was written to express opposition to the plans to drastically restructure the library's landmark main building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets , by Michael J. Sandel Michael Sandel, a professor of government at Harvard, opens his new book with a provocative question: 'Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale?' In five crisply written chapters, he asks where transactional markets should end and democratic ... (more)

Nominees for the Northern California Book Awards -- presented by an eight-member consortium, Northern California Book Reviewers, Poetry Flash, Center for the Art of Translation, PEN West, Mechanics' Institute, Red Room, the San Francisco Public Library and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library -- have just been announced.

The legendary punk-rock club CBGB closed six years ago. But now a group of investors has bought the assets of the club and plans to establish a CBGB music festival in various New York City venues this summer.

As a professor at a Christian university, I wince when I hear students referred to as "customers." Administrators, policymakers, and, at times, even students themselves resort to seeing the relationship I share with young people as one of economic exchange.

Maurice Sendak, the children's book author and illustrator who saw the sometimes-dark side of childnood in books like "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night Kitchen," has died.

"Havana Requiem: a Legal Thriller" , by Paul Goldstein: Attorney and novelist Paul Goldstein manages the enviable feat of writing a compelling legal thriller without ever putting his characters in the less-than-thrilling venue of a courtroom.

In this Sept. 25, 1985 file photo, author Maurice Sendak poses with one of the characters from his book "Where the Wild Things Are," designed for the operatic adaptation of his book in St.

In this Sept. 25, 1985 file photo, author Maurice Sendak poses with one of the characters from his book "Where the Wild Things Are," designed for the operatic adaptation of his book in St.

Michael Cadnum lives in Albany, California. His thirty-fifth book, the novel Seize the Storm, will be published in 2012 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Like Sacajawea, she has plotted her own course. She loves her tribe, but she also loves to explore.