In the News: Bourdain's Books, Straightened Out

Join Daniel Sinker (who posed as @MayorEmanuel during the Chicago mayoral race) as he tweets an original sci-fi story about the mythology of books at @HuffPostBooks today.

Ecco has given Anthony Bourdain his own imprint for three to five books a year that "reflect his remarkably eclectic tastes."

The High Line reminds the poet Mara Jebsen of other train tracks in Togo—and how we learn to live with less.

That's one way to repurpose bookstores: the novelist Isabel Losada will spend a week in a bookshop window working on her next novel.

Living rooms across the world will never be the same with the redesign of Ikea's iconic "Billy" bookshelf, but does that really mean that books are dead?

Two authors of young-adult novels say agents suggest books are easier to sell if gay characters are "straightened" or nonexistent.

As if being a critic weren't tough enough: how much of a poem can you quote without expensive permissions?

Enjoy three fun anecdotes from Roger Ebert's new memoir, "Life Itself," which comes out today.

James Dean offered glimpses of his skyrocketing career in letters to his girlfriend Barbara Glenn, which will be auctioned in November.