Colum McCann, T. J. Stiles, and Keith Waldrop win National Book Awards.

“The Imperial Cruise” argues that Theodore Roosevelt based his foreign policy on odd notions of race.

Junot Diaz failed for five years while writing “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.”

Big event books get their own movie-style trailers.

Karl Rove’s memoir “Courage and Responsibility” will be published in March.

A Minnesota father spoke only Klingon to his child for three years.

Barack Obama is the subject of more than sixty children’s books.

The “Great Unfinished Novel” reminds us of the randomness of art.

The baseball infographic Web site Flip Flop Fly Ball gets a book deal with Bloomsbury.

About time, eh? The Kindle arrives in Canada.

Colum McCann’s “Let the Great World Spin” is the best-selling National Book Award nominee.

The husband-and-wife translating duo Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky tackle Tolstoy’s shorter works.

The year’s top books about books.

George Carlin’s memoir “Last Words” was ten years in the making.

iPhone users downloaded more books than games in September.

“Chick lit” gets a bigger dress size.

Hyperion has named its new editor-in-chief.

Mattel releases “Twilighted” versions of Barbie and Ken.

Colum McCann’s “Let the Great World Spin” is at the top of Amazon’s 2009 best books list.

Marie NDiaye wins the Prix Goncourt for her novel “Three Strong Women.”

The Impac Dublin long list is very long.