Successfully fictionalising legendary people isn't easy.

While you're standing on the footpath, waving your stick and ranting at young whipper-snappers, popular culture passes you by...

After two decades of obsession with America, the boy from Mt Roskill journeyed through its heartland.

Mark Ellingham (Profile) and Peter Florence (Hay Festival) have compiled four collections of short stories under the title Ox-Tales.

'In a perfect world, I would never drink, but it ain't a perfect world' says Sam Hunt.

A doyen of NZ literature has compared plagiarism to drug cheating in sport because of the unfair advantage it gives over contemporaries.

Vintner's Luck author Elizabeth Knox cried for days after seeing the big-screen adpatation of her acclaimed novel.

The second instalment in the vampire trilogy is here, but why is it so popular.

It might be a short book but making a film of Where the Wild Things Are was a giant of a job for left-field director Spike Jonze.

Most copies of Witi Ihimaera's The Trowenna Sea, which contains plagiarised passages, are set to be taken off bookstore shelves.

A Ferrari disappears. Then the owner begins to suspect that her bank accounts have leaked tens of millions of dollars without explanation.

Author Witi Ihimaera was last night presented with a prestigious arts award - a week after he was caught up in a plagiarism row.

Flipping the lid on the biggest pop culture phenomena of recent times, Twilight.

More well known for his award-winning children's stories than adult sci-fi.

Like Fiona Farrell, Bernadette Hall spent six months in Ireland courtesy of the Rathcoola Fellowship.

There's nothing like a beautiful cookbook to get the tastebuds tingling.

Snoopy gets all the breaks.

Wellington writer Damien Wilkins discusses how a trip to France was a journey in more ways than one.