Spring in literature
“March has arrived; the sun is shining; finally – finally! – there’s no snow on the ground. To celebrate, take the Guardian’s quiz on the pleasures of the sweetest season.”

How to Design a Cover in 1:55 seconds
Ever wondered how a book cover comes to be? Check out The Making of a Book Cover time-lapse video that condenses the intense Photoshop compositing and retouching and the painstaking revisions process all in under two minutes.

The Subconscious Shelf
The New Yorker invites you to “lie back, relax, let the good doctors at the Book Bench analyze the contents of your bookshelf.”

From stick figures to sweet flick
Jeff Kinney had a clear template when it came time to adapt his wildly successful Diary of a Wimpy Kid children’s books to the big screen.

Read along as authors write ‘Exquisite Corpse Adventure’ online
Every two weeks a different children’s-book author and illustrator join forces to figure out how to move along the story in the online book “The Exquisite Corpse Adventure.”