“It all started with a Slim Jim,” Shalom Auslander writes about the difficulties of keeping kosher and the temptations he faced in his youth, in the memoir that the New York Times Book Review calls “funny, fierce and subversively heartfelt.”

A special installation of magnificent Korean screens dating from the late 19th to the early 20th century will go on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 11. Featuring four screens drawn from American collections, Beauty and Learning: Korean Painted Screens will highlight a unique genre of Korean painting known as ch'aekkori (books and things), which flourished in Korea from the late 18th to the early 20th century.

Whether from a nostalgia for its existence as an imperial centre or as an escape from reality, the literary obsession of the Serbian capital grows with every passing season.

Now that the Totally Fulfilled book has been released I am hoping to have some more time to dedicate to this blog and update it much more often. As of May 1st, I will open the blog up and have your comments and questions posted for all to see. For everyone who has left me messages to date - please know I have personally read them all and I thank you for your kind words and support.

First of all apologies for not posting messages as much as I would like to. The book hit and I have literally been traveling non-stop all over the country promoting it. I have been fortunate to meet so many amazing people along the way.

The day before the final edition of my book went to the press I decided to create an additional section. Why? I was online and saw a quote from Dale Carnegie that was so inspiring and so confirming to the way I think that I had to investigate. I did some research on him that led me down an inspirational path. I gathered as many quotes as I could find from Mr. Carnegie that sum up what he was all about.

Oprah's Book Club chooses A New Earth and she joins the author Eckhart Tolle to teach a 10-week webcast series of classes on Oprah.com.

Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography, a biography of actor Tom Cruise written by journalist Andrew Morton, has hit the number one spot on Amazon.com's Top Sellers list and The New York Times Best Sellers list.

International project, called Universal Library (ULIB) makes complete texts available through single Web portal and gives readers access to 1.5 million books.

Denis Johnson won the National Book Award for a 600-page "Tree of Smoke" describing extremes of the Vietnam War and its consequences.

The Franklin Institute celebrates the creepiest time of year with its annual Halloween Spooktacular on Saturday, October 27, 2007 from noon to 3 pm, a festival of everything that goes bump in the night! Lucy Hawking will read from her new book, “George’s Secret Key to the Universe”.