Plug into The Enthusiast’s second podcast, featuring: James Franco’s soap opera performance art, incongruous vampire/Matt Preston compilations, ASB complaints, an interview with Kid Sam and plenty more!

It's reassuring that people still want to read. It's less reassuring that they're more than willing to head to the black book market, in digital or physical form, to get their fix.

Like a rush of blood to the fangs comes that sookiest (as opposed to Sookie-est) of shameless vampire-themed cash-ins: the overwrought compilation album. We reckon we could do better than this.

When searching for insight into the mindset of weeping tweens that worship the glittering demons of Twilight, look no further than the Killers.

New special edition copies of the blockbuster Twilight saga come with blood-red ink along the edge of the pages. We suss out age-old design tricks, in order to judge a book by its page edge.

At one crazy stage in the recent celebrity carnage, Jeff Goldblum and a host of other stars were reported to have died too. What does our response to deaths – real and fake – say about the cult of celebrity?

HarperCollins label Nikki Gemmell's new novel The Book Of Rapture as "fiction", and The Bride Stripped Bare as "literature". We discover the fascinating intricacies of book categorisation.