music Haruki Murakami donating his huge record collection to university David Pescovitz

authors Fear and Soldering, an excerpt from Peter Bebergal's Strange Frequencies Gareth Branwyn

authors Author Peter Bebergal discusses his latest book, Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural Gareth Branwyn

books Hunter S. Thompson letter archive up for auction David Pescovitz

books Why Edgar Allan Poe's work is still so damn good and creepy David Pescovitz

libraries The New York Public Library's curious collection of authors' personal items David Pescovitz

books Tom Wolfe, pioneering "New Journalist" and novelist, RIP David Pescovitz

books Study: Publishers sell books written by women for less than those written by men Seamus Bellamy

books S.E. Hinton reveals why Johnny and Dally had to die at the end of The Outsiders David Pescovitz

television Watch Hunter S. Thompson on 1967 TV game show "To Tell The Truth" David Pescovitz

books Read a newly-discovered Kurt Vonnegut short story David Pescovitz

books Chuck Palahniuk hid a timecapsule in his former home and the current owners found it David Pescovitz

authors Hysterically twisted Twitter exchange between authors Chuck Wendig and Sam Sykes Gareth Branwyn

books Animated interviews with "futurists" Ayn Rand, Kurt Vonnegut, and Aldous Huxley David Pescovitz

obits RIP Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Mark Frauenfelder

authors Grant Morrison interview: "Laughter can banish any and all demons" Propaganda Anonymous

books William Peter Blatty, creator of The Exorcist, RIP David Pescovitz

books Scarily prescient 1958 animated interview with Aldous Huxley David Pescovitz

books George Orwell's letter from his former French teacher, Aldous Huxley, about Nineteen Eighty-Four David Pescovitz

books Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, Nobel prize laureate and author, dead at 87 Xeni Jardin