nybooks — by Martin Filler Frank Ockenfels 3 Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss), Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks) A major theme in literature is a wistful regard for life as it was lived some forty or fifty years earlier, typified by Edith...
guardian.co.uk — A website that aims to rival Amazon has produced a feature that is mesmerising for those who, like me, obsess about what other people are readingI think it was Sarah Crown who first set me off. "Is it just me?" she asked (while accepting the cliche of that opening phrase),...
publetariat — New Resource Pages: Writing, Publishing, Book Marketing Amazingly, [The Creative Penn] now has nearly 400 posts and nearly 3000 comments and I get emails every day with questions, so I thought it was time to add some better navigation options. I want this to be a really useful site for all who...
bookshopblog — ON THE HUNT by Brian Webster bwwebster@gmail.com In the beginning, when we first started in the Internet Book business, we already had quite a few volumes to sell, but it became obvious that we neither had enough books or a wide enough range to do very well. What we needed was stock and variety. Searching...
latimesblogs.latimes — If you read F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and decided you'd really like to enter Gatsby's world, a video game might just do the trick. Sadly, the PC-based video game "Classic Adventures: The Great Gatsby" from I-play, despite having a feel for the texture of the world and a...
thepenguinblog.typepad — Last night I had the pleasure of attending the launch party for Robert Penn’s impassioned new book It’s All About the Bike at Rapha Cycle Club. It was a fantastic evening, with the Penguin staff arriving en masse on their bikes, a warm welcome from his editor Helen Conford and...
smartbitchestrashybooks — I knew “Hot Tub Time Machine” wasn’t an original idea. From Margaret, we have this request for help: I found your site while looking for a book I read years ago and wanted to find again. I tried to find this book for my mom who loved it but she died...
guardian.co.uk — He has finally triumphed, but the happiness is not solely Charles Bicht's. Is there anything more joyful than watching 124 Hemingway lookalikes slug it out?After 11 years of toil, Charles Bicht has finally had his day. Dressed in a safari suit, the white-bearded Floridian this Saturday beat 123 other hopefuls...
guardian.co.uk — Why can't publishers serve fiction for girls without a simpering array of pearly grins and pony-tails? Enough candy-coatingEarlier this year Meg Rosoff expressed a desire to let loose with an illegal firearm, goaded by the "aggressive pinkness" of the upcoming Queen of Teen award. My immediate reaction was to applaud...
thecreativepenn — Amazingly, this blog now has nearly 400 posts and nearly 3000 comments and I get emails every day with questions, so I thought it was time to add some better navigation options. I want this to be a really useful site for all who visit! So, I have added a new...
smartbitchestrashybooks — P.N. Elrod, Vicki Pettersson, Jim Butcher, Ilona Andrews, and Carrie Vaughn, it is so your lucky day: Janette found the belt on your cover. You are ALL officially part of the UF Belt Club! Who’s next?! eHarlequin.com has a new site - head on over and tell me what you think. And...
omnivoracious — With the paperback edition of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (one of our top 10 books of 2009) hitting shelves today, we checked in with author/inventor/dynamo William Kamkwamba to see where his inspiring journey has taken him over the last eight months. Not surprisingly, he provided a staggering list...
latimesblogs.latimes — Actor Maury Chaykin died Tuesday, his 61st birthday, in Toronto. The veteran character, who had dual citizenship in Canada and the U.S., appeared in "Dances with Wolves," "The Sweet Hereafter," "Blindness," "A Life Less Ordinary" and many other films.He also played detective Nero Wolfe in the A&E Television series "A...
latimesblogs.latimes — Thirteen books were announced on Tuesday to be in the running for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. Known as the Man Booker longlist, or the Man Booker dozen, the list includes new novels by Peter Carey, David Mitchell and Rose Tremain. The list will be winnowed to a short list...
bookninja — The longlist for the Booker Prize includes Canadian, and part-time Ninja, Lisa Moore’s fantastic novel February. Longlist: Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (Faber and Faber) Room by Emma Donoghue (Pan MacMillan – Picador) The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore (Penguin – Fig Tree) In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (Grove...
guardian.co.uk — We're unexpectedly heartened by a Man Booker prize longlist that includes many Guardian books desk favourites. What do you think?And here we have it: this year's Man Booker longlist – the "Booker dozen", as it is whimsically, not to say tweely, known.First impressions from the books desk: exciting to see...
guardian.co.uk — A major crime-writing festival, a roomful of industry names to impress, and two minutes to do it in. GulpCrime, once the Cinderella of literary fiction, is continuing to grow in popularity, as was clear last week in Harrogate, at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing festival.The festival is a haven...
smartbitchestrashybooks — Today, I have an interview with two authors, Marjorie Liu and Kelley Armstrong, and as a twist, they asked me some questions, too. Kelley and Marjorie both have books out today, so happy book release day to them both! Armstrong’s new book, Waking the Witch, is the 11th book in...
jwikert.typepad — Where I buy a print book often comes down to convenience (which store is closest), pricing, availability (is the book in stock?) and loyalty programs (e.g., member discounts). The choice of a brick-and-mortar vs. an online store adds in the component of urgency; do you need the book today or...
eclecticbooklover — Today I'm lucky enough to host Cynthia Eden, an award-winning author of several paranormal romances and romantic suspense novels. Her latest release, Deadly Fear, is due out August 1st. Take it away, Cynthia! Romantic Suspense Recipe Hi, everyone! Hope you are having a fantastic summer! And, Jacqueline, thanks so much for...
guardian.co.uk — The final day had its low-key moments, but overall it's been a rollercoaster. I'm almost sick of fantasy costumes. But not quiteOn its last day, Comic-Con didn't so much shift down a gear or two as pull into a layby, apply the handbrake and kill the engine.Sunday was kids' day,...
guardian.co.uk — He won't give plot clues, but Jeffery Deaver will give his 007 novel a contemporary setting. Can it work? Tell us what you thinkLast week I received an invitation to an "exclusive Project X" event. I knew it was something to do with the new James Bond novel, which Jeffery...
guardian.co.uk — Technological change in the world of books is coming so thick and fast it's hard to keep upThese are heady times for the cultural commentator. Change in the world of books is coming so thick and fast it's hard to keep up. Scarcely have we adjusted to one innovation than...
guardian.co.uk — Published a few years before The Origin of Species, Browning's paradoxical love poem seems to anticipate the Darwinian outlookRobert Browning's "Two in the Campagna" is a study in paradox. It's a love poem that deconstructs love, a pastoral that has seen not only death but bio-diversity. Conversational, daringly sexual, it...