Two Jungle Book Movies to Hit Theatres?

Yup.

Top Ten Books on Marijuana

The list, care of the Daily Beast.

The Gentlemen Sign Painters of Dublin

Gentlemen of Letters - A Dublin Sign Painting Film from Colin Brady on Vimeo.

The 10 Best Movies Based on Memoirs

The list, care of DIY.

Peter Brook's "King Lear"

Books That Inspired Classic Rock

The list, care of Bookish.

10 Musical Compositions Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez

Happy listening.

Vintage Crime Photos from the LAPD Archives

Enjoy.

The Real Life Inspiration for Edgar Allan Poe's First Detective Story

Meet Eugene Vidocq.

Posters from the First World War

Enjoy.

36 Life Changing Poems Everyone Should Read

The list, care of BuzzFeed.

The Shocking Hard-Boiled World of Librarians

Pay your fines, or die! More, here.

My Life in Typefaces

 

The 10 Most Challenged Books of 2013

Happy reading, kiddos!

Rachmaninov Manuscript to Go to Auction

Symphony #2. Interested? Bring your checkbook.

Boxing...

...and poetry.

Sherlock Holmes Returns

In a new novel sanctioned by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

How to Be a Writer

The game!

Vintage Photos of Bygone Bookstores

Enjoy.

10 Things You Didn't Know about Shakespeare

The list, care of the Huffington Post.

Ayn Rand - the Musical

For reals.

Study for Edward Hopper's "Intermission"

English is Crazy

Patton Oswalt, on a Lifetime of Reading Stephen King

He discusses it, here.

Archie Will Die

But he'll return.

Marvel Has Movies Planned Out Until...

...2028. You read that right.

12 of the Strangest Comic Book Crossovers of All-Time

The list, care of Neatorama.

The Sign Painter

The Sign Painter from dress code on Vimeo.

James Franco Starring in a Movie Based on James Franco Short Stories

Anyone Interested in a Baylonian Cuneiform Cylinder?

Get out your checkbook.

40 Books That Will Make You Want to Visit France

The list, care of Buzzfeed.

Can Fan Fiction Go Mainstream?

That's the question recently asked by Wired.

From the piece...

The overlap between the professional and fan literary communities is one of those uncomfortable secrets no one denies, but few discuss. Fan fiction is mostly published pseudonymously, and the stigma surrounding it often causes writers to keep their professional and fan identities carefully compartmentalized.

Literary publishing’s uneasy relationship with fan fiction has been complicated by the realization that fandom is a huge potential market—one stocked with both prolific authors and enthusiastic readers.  But tapping that market is a dilemma few publishers seem quite prepared to engage.

14 Totally Badass Female Writers

The list, care of the Huffington Post.

Kafka's "The Trial," Directed by Orson Welles

April is National Poetry Month!

30 ways to celebrate, here.

10 Best First Sentences Ever

The list, care of the American Scholar.