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Source: www.guardian.co.uk Date: 3 hours 18 minutes ago Stuart Evers: Just because he's disowned The Cold Six Thousand, should readers automatically defer to his harsh judgment? More Source: www.booklistonline.com Date: 8 hours 47 minutes ago Booklist Online, featuring over 120,000 book reviews, as well as audiobook, video, and database reviews, is the counterpart to Booklist magazine, published by the American Library Association. More Source: www.omnivoracious.com Date: 8 hours 55 minutes ago New York Times: Stephen King on Raymond Carver by Carol Sklenicka and Carver's Collected Stories: King is pro-Maryann Carver (with a fellow AAer's disdain for Carver's drunken treatment of his first wife) and acidly anti-Gordon Lish: More Source: www.miamiherald.com Date: 12 hours 39 minutes ago Davidson has become the queen of the culinary mystery, and her 15th novel showcases her plotting and characterization skills. For the record, Davidson's recipes equal her plotting; I still use her stovetop chocolate soufflé from Dying for Chocolate. More Source: www.complete-review.com Date: 13 hours 23 minutes ago A fair amount of detail -- yet she manages to avoid any mention of both the recent Frankfurt Book Fair (where China was guest of honor) and Duo Duo's recent Neustadt International Prize for Literature win. (Posted by: M.A. More Source: www.beneaththecover.com Date: 13 hours 24 minutes ago It was inevitable. Traditional publishing sales kept falling and falling, while the number of self-published authors continued to rise. No business (at least More Source: www.boston.com Date: 17 hours 31 minutes ago Most people have heard about Cleopatra and Marc Antony: their epic love story, their heroics in battle, their dramatic deaths. But until now, little has been known about the equally dramatic lives of their children, who were left to the mercy of their fathers enemy, Octavian Caesar, after More Source: living.scotsman.com Date: 18 hours 39 minutes ago The Browser with Stuart Kelly - Kindly look again at bad sex award nominations More Source: www.nzherald.co.nz Date: 20 hours 49 minutes ago A first edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking 'Origin Of Species', which languished for years in a toilet in Britain, will go under the hammer this week, on the 150th anniversary… More Source: www.thejohnfox.com Date: Nov 23, 2009 Tod Goldberg writes short stories (Simplify) and novels (Living Dead Girl), in addition to just being a hilarious guy. He's also the Director of the MFA program at UC Riverside Palm Desert. BookFox had the opportunity to interview him by email for the release of his latest collection, "Other Resort More Source: www.conversationalreading.com Date: Nov 23, 2009 Nobel speaks, publishers listen: Curious readers clamoring for more work from this year’s Nobel laureate in literature will be able to get their hands on two more titles in the next three years. Metropolitan Books has acquired the North American rights to two novels by Herta Müller, the More Source: comicsworthreading.com Date: Nov 23, 2009 Graphic novel, manga, and comic book news, recommendations, and reviews with attitude by Johanna Draper Carlson. More Source: www.bookgasm.com Date: Nov 23, 2009 Its little women and big thrills as the all-new GRAPHIC CLASSICS: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT features an adaptation of the authors beloved novel LITTLE WOMEN in comic-book form, and also presents lesser-known Alcott stories, including the Gothic mystery “A Whisper in the Dark,” the horror tale More Source: audiobooker.booklistonline.com Date: Nov 23, 2009 Newsweek takes you down memory lane. Of note to audiobook listeners the iPod, introduced in 2001. More Source: americanfiction.suite101.com Date: Nov 22, 2009 The Life O'Reilly, a Novel, is the story of Nick O'Reilly, a partner in a fancy New York law firm who discovers he wants more out of life. More Source: features.csmonitor.com Date: Nov 21, 2009 Books: Book reviews, news from the literary world, and a daily blog by the books editor of The Christian Science Monitor. More Source: calitreview.com Date: Nov 21, 2009 The movie positively drags at two hours eleven minutes; when the kids at the front of the theater start chatting amongst themselves during the “tense” final scenes, something’s not right. More Source: socialsciencebooks.suite101.com Date: Nov 21, 2009 One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding exposes the wedding industry, looks at bridezillas, and asks how weddings became such large and expensive events. More Source: www.prlog.org Date: Nov 20, 2009 Nominees for the Yellow30 Sci-Fi 2009 Pluto Award to be announced soon!. It's finally that time of year. Anxious small press authors want to know who will be the nominees for the third annual Yellow30 Sci-Fi Pluto Award. More Source: www.austinchronicle.com Date: Nov 20, 2009 On topics of interest alone – first diaries in A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries, now letters in Yours Ever: People and Their Letters – one might accuse the essayist and novelist Thomas Mallon of voyeurism, or at least of a fetish for being the uninvited guest. More Previous | Next
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