Sometimes reading 350-page novel is just too much work. And Cliff Notes can also be a pain. Thankfully, there's Book-A-Minute Classics!

I've been hesitant to write anything about HBO's attempt to adapt Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections into a TV series, because the network still hasn't greenlit a pilot.

Isaac Asimov hasn't had the best luck with Hollywood.

Once again, "Archer" lovingly scratched my belly by integrating obscure and highbrow references into its jokes.

As a hardened Internet veteran, there isn't much out there that surprises me.

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I'll see your Sherlock Holmes bare-knuckle boxing and raise you Edgar Allan Poe as a crime-fighting detective:ABC has ordered a crime drama where Edger Allen Poe solves mysteries.

As if the notion of Snooki writing a novel isn't already laughable enough -- her input was given to ghostwriter Valerie Frankel over conference calls -- everyone's favorite be-poufed Oompa-Loompa is upping the hilarity by taking herself seriously:The pint-size loudmouth - who, now that she’s an author, prefers to be called Nicole - tells the Daily News that "words can't even describe" what it means to her to have her book on stands.

Vanity Fair has an excerpt from Bill Carter's new book, The War for Late Night, about NBC's Jay Leno/Conan O'Brien boondoggle in the winter of 2009-10.