“There’s a very small number of people on this planet who have this very specific job.” That’s how Mad Libs editor Laura Marchesani describes her work, and the exact thought that made me curious about ...

Nonsense was big business for Larry Sloan, who co-founded a Los Angeles publishing company in the 1960s to print books that were blueprints for silliness. The series of word-game books, “Mad Libs,” ...

What began as nothing more than a party game for adults has, over time, become a household name and a publishing sensation. For 50 years, kids and adults have mined their imaginations, throwing out ...

My earliest memories of Mad Libs date to junior high, when Marcy Merti and I would explode into giggle fits over inappropriately placed nostrils, double-knit pilgrims and one particularly frightening ...

Leonard Stern, an Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and director whose career in television spanned “The Honeymooners,” “Get Smart” and “McMillan & Wife” and whose additional career in publishing ...

One look at this bestselling book will have you saying "You Belong With Me." By Rylee Johnston All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a ...

Yesterday, very early in the morning, I had the opportunity to interview Augusten Burroughs, author of the monstrous bestseller Running with Scissors. (By opportunity, I mean I walked backwards into a ...

The prolific writer-producer's credits also include "Get Smart," an Abbott & Costello movie and a pair of Ma & Pa Kettle films. By Mike Barnes Leonard B. Stern, the prolific writer and producer whose ...