Brief this: Captain Underpants is back (AP)
AP - Break out the briefs and red cape, if you dare. More tales of "Captain Underpants" are coming.(Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:23:05 GMT)

McGraw-Hill renews magazine deal with contractors (AP)
AP - McGraw-Hill Construction, part of publishing house The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., said Wednesday it extended its publishing agreement with the Associated General Contractors of America for two more years.(Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:54:32 GMT)

Muslim group calls textbooks discriminatory (Reuters)
Reuters - Muslim activists launched a campaign on Wednesday against a series of educational books that they say promote anti-Islamic sentiment among U.S. school children.(Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:00:41 GMT)

3 histories receive Bancroft Prize (AP)
AP - Biographies of Abigail Adams and Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange are among the winners of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for history.(Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:54:53 GMT)

Posner says he failed to source material for book (AP)
AP - An author and journalist who resigned last month from the Internet news site The Daily Beast over allegations of lifting material acknowledged that passages in his latest book are similar to those of another writer.(Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:36:52 GMT)

`Surrendered' flawed exploration of war's ravages (AP)
AP - "The Surrendered" (Riverhead Books, $26.95, 480 pages), by Chang-Rae Lee: "The Surrendered" gets off to a riveting start with a powerful first 30 pages, as readers follow an 11-year-old girl leading her two younger siblings on a refugee trek through Korea in the early 1950s.(Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:31:26 GMT)

Levy, Mantel battle 7 debut novels for UK prize (Reuters)
Reuters - Literary heavyweights Andrea Levy and Hilary Mantel are up against seven first-time novelists in the longlist for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction honoring women writers in the English language.(Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:49:21 GMT)

Thriller writer John Grisham ends holdout on e-books (Reuters)
Reuters - Popular legal thriller author John Grisham has broken his holdout against selling his books in an electronic format and will sell all of his 23 titles as e-books, his publisher said on Tuesday.(Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:20:49 GMT)