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How much big-time authors are paid.

New Yorkers seem to fall into two camps: those who never want to see another photo from September 11 and those who work through grief with words and pictures. For the latter, a selection from the remarkable number of books timed to the anniversary.

This fall's new family shows offer a few incremental tweaks to the formula, especially when it comes to dear old dad.

Dave Eggers has a new novel, but good luck trying to score a copy.

With The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith tackles celebrity, spirituality, and the curse of the sophomore slump.

Seeing green is a lot better than feeling green, but staying straight doesn't have to mean opting out. Below, our St. Paddy's Day answers to First Night.

We all have that friend -- the one who'll eat, sleep, or read anything New York. Just in time for Christmas, five new titles for that obsessive urbanite's stocking.

For his novel The Grand Complication, Allen Kurzweil spent nine years researching everything from Middle Eastern museums to eighteenth-century watches to the Dewey decimal system.