Remember Twilight? That modestly budgeted movie released last year with vampires and some such? The one with that guy from Harry Potter and the girl from Panic Room. It was based on the first in a series of four young adult novels by some chick called Stephenie Meyer, they were meant to have sold a ...

In a recent opinion piece that ran in The Washington Post, Ron Charles bases an argument for  young people's lack of intellect and sense of "suburban contentment" on the fact that bestselling titles on college campuses lean more towards the popular (Stephenie Meyer and J.K. Rowling for fiction; Ma...

Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Programming, OpEd, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Casting, Reality-Free I'm neck-deep in the midst of a vampire obsession. I'm one of the Twi-hards eagerly awaiting the Nov. 20 release of Stephenie Meyer's next vamp-flick, New Moon . I was immediately sucked ...

Twi-hards were buzzing last week at the news that Drew Barrymore might be in as director of “Eclipse,� the third installment of the “Twilight� franchise. But the current buzz is that Barrymore is out, and Paul Weitz, brother of “New Moon� director Chris Weitz , is in. Acting411 blog has ...

Stephen King is getting more annoying by the minute. He recently slammed Stephenie Meyer and called her a no-talent loser. Ok, he wasn’t quite that harsh, but really, you shouldn’t slam someone who has such a huge fan base as Stephenie Meyer and her "Twilight" series. I’d...

Wolfe and Irving, Vargas Llosa and Garcia Marquez, Amis and Barnes – those of us who love a good literary feud can now add to the list reigning horror author Stephen King, who lashed out at the upstart Stephenie Meyer in an interview with a reporter from USA Today – and threw in a few more barbs...

  Bill Gates wants rich people to feel the pain, so he unleashed mosquitoes on them. Really. "The Impaler," a self-described "Vampyre" who ran for Governor of Minnesota in '06 as the Vampyres, Witches and Pagans party (wha?) candidate, has been arrested for harassing his...

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.” Stephen King discussing authors he likes and, obviously, devastated authors he...

The mythology of Roberto Bolaño’s hard-knock life is starting to crumble: his widow says he was never a heroin addict, and others say he was not in Chile during the Pinochet coup. Slate takes a quick look around at the state of the book business. Russell Smith offers some reading recommendati...

"Twilight" fans have been eagerly waiting to see if Taylor Lautner would reprise his character of Jacob Black in the sequel, "New Moon." Rumors have been swirling that he might be replaced, because the character changes quite a bit from the first movie to the second. Well, wait n...