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The unrivalled Diana Athill
Sat, 31 Oct 2009
A bestseller at 91, she forged the modern memoir In the early 1980s, the publisher André Deutsch had an idea for a book I could write about the partition of India. I didn't take it up, which I regret now because I was wrong to imagine, as I told him, that "everything" had already been written about. the subject. Instead, I proposed a...
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| Biographies |
Siegfried Sassoon: The reluctant hero
Tue, 03 Nov 2009
Cambridge University is on the verge of securing Siegfried Sassoon's personal papers for posterity – his unpublished poems and letters are more relevant than ever, says Michael Morpurgo I once came across a letter written by a military officer to a soldier's mother. "We regret to inform you," it said., "that your son was shot at dawn...
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| Obama's half-brother writes book 'inspired by father's abuse'
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
Obama's father beat me and my mother, Mark Ndesandjo says, as he launches self-published semi-autobiographical novel 阅读中文 | Read this in Chinese Barack Obama's half-brother in China has broken his media silence to launch a semi-autobiographical novel, which he said was partly inspired by their. father's abuse. Mark Ndesandjo...
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| The life and death of Trotsky
Sat, 31 Oct 2009
Tariq Ali on Trotsky by Robert Service and Stalin's Nemesis by Bertrand M Patenaude Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service 600pp, Macmillan, £25 Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky by Bertrand M Patenaude 352pp, Faber, £20 For over half a century, Isaac Deutscher's three.-volume biography of Trotsky, a...
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| A Flood Of Palin Books To Hit Shelves
Tue, 03 Nov 2009
Sarah Palin's upcoming memoir, Going Rogue , will be released Nov. 17. It's already a best-seller and a target for parody. Going Rouge , a book of essays from two editors of The Nation , will be released the same day. Marjorie Kehe, book editor for The Christian Science Monitor , calls it a perfect. storm for publishers...
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| Graphic Books
Fri, 30 Oct 2009
Top 5 at a Glance 1. THE BOOK OF GENESIS: ILLUSTRATED, by R. Crumb 2. ABSOLUTE DEATH, by Neil Gaiman, Chris Bachalo and Mark Buckingham 3. STITCHES: A MEMOIR, by David Small 4. BATMAN: CACOPHONY, by Kevin Smith and Walter Flanagan 5. THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young
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| Harold Evans: A Long Career Of Chasing Stories
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
The British journalist talks with Steve Inskeep about his tenure as editor of the Sunday Times in London and his crusade to maintain journalism's commitment to public good. Evans has a new memoir called My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times .
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| Obama's half brother recalls their abusive father (AP)
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
AP - President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel — the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir.
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| Mary Karr, Remembering The Years She Spent 'Lit'
Tue, 03 Nov 2009
The Liar's Club, Mary Karr's memoir about her hardscrabble childhood in Texas, was named one of the best books of 1995. In her new book, Lit, Karr details her early adult years and her struggles with alcohol, depression and motherhood.
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| Sarah Palin promises more cities on book tour (AP)
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
AP - Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is promising to visit more cities than a conventional book tour when her memoir "Going Rogue" is published later this month.
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| 'Googled': Biography Of A Company, And An Age
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
Media critic Ken Auletta tracks the development of Google from a search engine to the provider of all things Internet in his new book Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.
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| Postcards From the Edge: Tocqueville’s Letters Home
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
Most of Alexis de Tocqueville’s letters home from America have never been published in English. But Frederick Brown has translated them for a volume due out next year.
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| Mary Karr talks about memoirs, alcohol abuse and her new 'Lit'
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
Mary Karr's best-selling 1995 memoir, The Liars' Club, about her rough Texas childhood with alcoholic parents, "kick-started .
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| Ayn Rand’s Revenge
Fri, 30 Oct 2009
Anne C. Heller’s biography conveys the conviction and odd charisma of Ayn Rand, whose individualist message is still resonant for American conservatives.
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| Vincent van Gogh - The Complete Letters: review
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
This sumptuous edition of Vincent van Gogh's complete letters shows that the artist was as adept with pen and ink as with paint and canvas says Martin Gayford
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| Books of The Times: Wartime China’s Elegant Enigma
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
Mme. Chiang Kai-shek led a long, vastly complicated life, one that is richly detailed in Hannah Pakula’s long, vastly complicated new biography.
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| Obama's half brother recalls their abusive father in novel
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
President Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel, the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive .
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| I, Banker
Fri, 30 Oct 2009
An admiring biography of Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, who the author believes can point Wall Street in a new direction.
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| Two biographies of Ayn Rand.
Mon, 2 Nov 2009
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| Letters: When Dusk Is Only Dusk
Fri, 30 Oct 2009
To the Editor:.
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| Letters: Stumped by ‘Wasp’
Fri, 30 Oct 2009
To the Editor:.
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| Children's |
Favourite children's books we should never have loved
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
It's an unsettling experience to discover just how bad some of the books one adored as a child actually were I visited the offices of Pan Macmillan last week to interview William Horwood , he of Duncton Wood fame, and in the process got chatting to his editor Julie Crisp about the children's books. which hold up on rereading as an adult...
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| Riordan Sets His Sights on Egypt
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
Like his Lightning Thief star Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan is a demigod—at least in the eyes of his readers. With the release next May of the first title in his new middle-grade fantasy series, about ancient Egypt, he is set to become a pharaoh, too. In The Kane Chronicles, Book One: The Red Pyramid., kids will meet Carter Kane, 14...
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| An explosive combination
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
The author and the illustrator explain how bonfire night banter ignited new careers for both of them It all happened because of bonfire night. As he stood with family and friends amid the oohs and aahs of the village firework display, novelist Conn Iggulden found himself trying to explain, in answer. to a curious child's question, how...
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| Best Children's Books of 2009
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
On Monday, Publishers Weekly announced its Best Books of 2009, including our list of 30 Best Books for children. From accounts of civil rights heroes, to harrowing (and hopeful) stories about contemporary teenagers, to picture books that perfectly capture friendship, curiosity, or flights of fancy, 2009. held a treasure trove of wonderful...
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| Berenstain Bears Books to be Made Into Film
Tue, 3 Nov 2009
USA Today reports that Walden Media has acquired the film rights to the popular Berenstain Bears books. Shawn Levy ( Night at the Museum ) has signed on to direct a film based on the children's book series. "To stand that kind of test of time is pretty formidable," says Levy, who will produce. the film through his company, 21 Laps...
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| This Blog's for You: Ten of the best blogs for folks who take kids' lit seriously (but not too seriously)
Sun, 01 Nov 2009
A magazine article changed my life. Admittedly, that sounds like a bit of hyperbole, but it's true. There I was in New York City, with my shiny new MLIS degree, working at my very first children's librarian post. I was still experiencing that first flush of excitement people have when they start a new. job in an occupation they love, and...
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| Be afraid!
Fri, 30 Oct 2009
With Hallowe'en upon us, Charlie Higson reads from his chilling new novel for children, The Enemy, in which grown-ups have been wiped out or turned into zombies by a killer virus, and talks to Michelle Pauli about running the book past his 10-year-old son, killing off his characters, and why children. are intrigued by horror. This week...
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| Do you know what today's kids need? Thumb amputation, that's what
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
The American writer Maurice Sendak, already one of my heroes, has climbed even higher in my estimation. Asked what he would say to parents of young children who were concerned that the imminent film of his Where the Wild Things Are might be too scary, he said: "I would tell them to go to hell." For their. children, he had the following...
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| Yes, They Can: Google Lit Trips and games give kids a new perspective on social justice
Sun, 01 Nov 2009
Children, especially girls, are finding supporters across the globe—some their own age—who are engaging with virtual education programs, an online game, and books that promote social justice and a better world. “Education seems like a simple thing,” says Greg Mortenson, coauthor. of Three Cups of Tea (Viking...
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| Children's Book Reviews: 11/2/2009
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
This week's reviews include picture books from Alexandra Day, Peter H. Reynolds, and Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney; starred reviews for new fiction from Katherine Sturtevant and Jean-Claude Mourlevat; comics from Lark Pien and Holly Black; and books to invigorate minds and imaginations.
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| Teen Book Buzz Webcast 2009 Introduces 60 New YA Titles
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
More than 60 new YA titles were introduced in 60 minutes during Teen Book Buzz Webcast 2009, sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's BookGroup, Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, Follett Library Resources, and School Library Journal.
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| Comics |
Josette Baujot obituary
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
When the comics artist Hergé (aka Georges Rémi) created his most famous character, Tintin, in the late 1920s, he drew the tuft-haired young reporter in black and white. His fellow Belgian Josette Baujot, who has died aged 88, was responsible for colouring Hergé's Tintin albums for more than. a quarter of a century during the...
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| Viz's Roger Mellie to curate Tate Britain exhibition
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
The cartoon's team will take charge of their own section of the Tate as part of a season on social satire Read more from today's diary There will be something just a little different coming up soon among the masterworks at Tate Britain – the world as seen by Viz magazine. Or more specifically, the world as it appears through the...
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| Life in Comics: The End of Adolescence?
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
In 2004, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Michael Chabon gave the keynote speech at the Eisner Awards. Speaking about the maturation of the industry, he referred to some of the excesses of the 1990s as comics "adolescence": "An excess of desire to appear grown up is one of the defining characteristics of. adolescence. But these follies were...
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| Marvel Makes Theirs iPhone
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
The growing array of comics available for iPhones got a Hulk-sized addition last week when Marvel Comics, the leading US comics publisher, announced deals with four iPhone applications. Comics both recent and classic are now available for download from Comixology, iVerse and Panelfly. Scrollmotion, another. leading app for iPhones that...
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| Back To The Future: Tor.com Buys Book-Size Webcomics to Serialize
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
In an unusual acquisition deal, Tor.com, an experimental Macmillan website/publishing venture focused on launching original science fiction, fantasy and comics, has acquired web-only publishing rights to two full-length 192 page graphic novels and will serialize them over 6 months through the Tor.com. website.
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| Boom! Studios’ Mark Waid is Unstoppable!
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
Mark Waid started out in the superhero camp, as an editor at DC and then as a freelance writer, shaping such iconic series as The Flash and Captain Marvel. Now, as editor-in-chief of independent comics publisher Boom! Studios, Waid is transforming the paradigm of monthly comics publishing.
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| 'Genesis': R. Crumb Illustrates The Bible
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
Underground comic legend R. Crumb has put the entire text of the best known book of the Bible into a graphic work. In The Book of Genesis Illustrated, he depicts it all, from the creation of the world to the death of Joseph.
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| Comic-Con founder Dorf dies at 76
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
Sheldon Dorf, who founded the now world-famous San Diego Comic-Con International Comic Book Festival, has died at the age of 76.
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| Current Events |
Dairy Queen and Barbed Wire: The New Reality of US Occupation
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
Charles Simic US soldiers at an ice cream shop, Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, October 1, 2009 (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) Back in September, I read an article in The New York Times about an American base in Iraq that I haven’t been able to get out of my mind. It describes a U.S. military. installation in the Sunni Triangle...
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| Iraq on the Edge
Thu, 19 Nov 2009
By Joost R. Hiltermann For the occasional visitor such as myself, various methods exist to measure America's standing in Iraq, Iraqi suspicions and aspirations, and progress in the transfer of power, but none prove as illuminating as the checkpoints into and throughout Baghdad's Green Zone, that diminishing. symbol of the Bush...
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| One-Term President?
Tue, 03 Nov 2009
Garry Wills Barack Obama paying his respects as the bodies of eighteen American soldiers killed in Afghanistan were returned to the United States, Dover Air Force Base, October 29, 2009 (Doug Mills/The New York Times/Redux) I am told by people I respect that Barack Obama cannot pull out of both. Iraq and Afghanistan without...
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| Story told of contradictory Civil War general (AP)
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
AP - "Devil's Dream" (Pantheon Books, 335 pages, $26), by Madison Smartt Bell: In "Devil's Dream," Madison Smartt Bell has chosen as his subject a Confederate general and slave trader who would go on to become one of the leaders of the early Ku Klux Klan.
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| When Weeding Is Wrong: A principal asks for banned books to be removed from the collection
Sun, 01 Nov 2009
A parent of one of our eighth graders came into the library and began pulling books off our shelves. She ended up stacking 15 books on the circulation desk—including The Giver, The Chocolate War, Monster, and Looking for Alaska—and demanded that we permanently remove them from our collection.
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| 'Obamanos!': One Year Into Obama's Presidency
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
Hendrik Hertzberg, author of Obamanos! , assesses the year since President Obama's election. And former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee and NPR political editor Ken Rudin talk about gains Republicans made in the 2009 elections.
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| Grant Could Assist Acquisition of Poet's Papers
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
The National Heritage Memorial Fund in Britain said that it would give about $900,000 toward the purchase of Siegfried Sassoon's archives, which includes notebooks he kept during World War I.
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| Noted Spanish author Francisco Ayala dies
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
Celebrated Spanish author, sociologist and scholar Francisco Ayala - exiled from his native country for about 40 years after the Spanish Civil War - has died at the age of 103.
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| Family of Stieg Larsson at war over book proceeds
Tue, 03 Nov 2009
The family of Stieg Larsson the Swedish crime writer who died five years ago are engaged in a bitter fight over proceeds from the sale of his books.
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| The Online Price War Over Books Has a Fresh Twist (Or Two)
Tue, 03 Nov 2009
The price war over books sold online takes a new twist as Amazon continues to sell some titles for $9 even after they are released.
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| Fiction |
Guardian Review Book club with Terry Pratchett
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
Discworld creator to appear at Guardian book club on 14 December at Kings Place, London Join us for a very special Book club with Terry Pratchett , who will talk about his 37th Discworld novel, Unseen Academicals: 'Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old fashioned, grubby. pushing and shoving, but the new...
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| Prescribed reading: medicine in literature
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
A new book prize turns a welcome spotlight on a rich and varied tradition of writing about health and medicine Last night I attended the prize ceremony for the inaugural Wellcome Trust book prize , awarded to "outstanding works of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health, illness or medicine.". I was attracted by its slightly...
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| Obituary: Francisco Ayala
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
One of the greats of Spanish literature, he spent decades in exile in the Franco era The Spanish literary lion Francisco Ayala, who has died aged 103, enjoyed a remarkable privilege: attending a major international conference to mark his own centenary. With dozens of books to his name, he was more acclaimed. for novels and short stories...
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| Battle over Stieg Larsson's fortune
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
• Bitter row over legacy of Swedish crime sensation • Trilogy published after author died of heart attack As the author of three dark and violent crime novels, Stieg Larsson was at home in a dysfunctional landscape of simmering resentments and rancourous family secrets. But the Swedish writer cannot. have foreseen how, almost five...
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| Story Plant Revamps Model
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
Founded in 2008 by two veteran publishing professionals—former Berkley publisher Lou Aronica and literary agent Peter Miller—Story Plant is a publishing venture originally intended to focus on a list of hardcover genre fiction. But after releasing its first two hardcover books last fall., Aronica acknowledged that he and...
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| Taking the novel seriously
Fri, 30 Oct 2009
Rana Dasgupta did not enjoy the rough and tumble that saw him voted winner of the Guardian's Not the Booker prize. But, as Richard Lea discovers, he is a man who takes the job of writing in earnest The winner of a literary prize is sometimes surprised, often delighted, seldom ever disappointed. But. when I finally caught up with the...
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| AOT #186: Ralph Nader Podcasts Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us!
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
Ralph Nader, consumer advocate and two-time candidate for President of the United States, is a relentless force for grassroots activism and democratic change in America. Nader discusses and reads from his new novel Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!, a vivid fictional account that answers the question. “What if?” What if a cadre of...
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| Landscape of neglect
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
Fact and fiction blur as Heartland novelist Anthony Cartwright take Chris Arnot on a tour through estates of despair There is a passage in Anthony Cartwright's novel, Heartland, currently being serialised on Radio 4, in which veteran Labour councillor Jim Bayliss ponders why his seat in Cinderheath. is under threat from the British...
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| Damned minutes
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
From Sacher-Masoch to Jane Austen, the novelist selects the novels which best anatomise the 'dark, interior stickiness' of a passion peculiarly well-suited to literature Howard Jacobson is the author of 10 novels, including The Very Model of a Man, The Mighty Walzer and Kalooki Nights. He has also written. studies of Jewishness...
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| 'The Lacuna,' Kingsolver's Vacant Return
Tue, 03 Nov 2009
It's been nine years since Barbara Kingsolver, author of The Poisonwood Bible, has released a new novel — but is The Lacuna worth the wait? Critic Maureen Corrigan says this personalized perspective on the Red Scare in Mexico reflects the hidden meaning of the book's title: vacancy.
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| What We're Reading: Nov. 3 - 9, 2009
Tue, 03 Nov 2009
A new weekly feature spotlights staff picks of standout books. This week, new novels from Barbara Kingsolver, Philip Roth and Paul Auster. Jonathan Safran Foer makes the case against Eating Animals, and Ken Auletta's Googled profiles one of the world's most significant companies.
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| Paperback Trade Fiction
Fri, 30 Oct 2009
Top 5 at a Glance 1. PUSH, by Sapphire 2. THE SHACK, by William P. Young 3. OLIVE KITTERIDGE, by Elizabeth Strout 4. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson 5. SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM, by Uwem Akpan
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| John Irving still spinning fiction from real life (Reuters)
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
Reuters - Backstage, renowned novelist John Irving tells a story about the 300-pound (165-kg) man he found in the sauna at his New York hotel that morning.
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| Renaissance Men
Fri, 30 Oct 2009
Tolerant, passionate and humane, Thomas Cromwell is cast as the picaresque hero of this Man Booker Prize-winning novel of Henry VIII’s turbulent court.
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| For Thrillers, Glenn Beck Is Becoming New Oprah
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
The outspoken media darling of populist conservatism uses the plots of the novels he features as a springboard for issues.
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| Spotlight | Purchase: Meet ‘Olive Kitteridge’
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
Elizabeth Strout, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Olive Kitteridge,” read from the book at Manhattanville College this week.
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| Essay: What to Write Next
Fri, 30 Oct 2009
If you’re anything like me, figuring out what to write next can be a real hassle. Here’s a guide to picking a genre for your next novel.
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| WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS (AP)
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
AP - 1. "Tempted (House of Night Novels)" by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Press)
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| Montreal's Laferrire wins France's Prix Mdicis
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
Montreal writer Dany Laferrire has won the Prix Mdicis in France for his novel L'nigme du retour.
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| Short stories show a valiant effort from John Grisham
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
Give the king of the legal thriller credit for expanding his literary range. Today, Ford County, John Grisham's first collection .
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| Obituaries |
Spanish novelist Francisco Ayala dead at 103 (AFP)
Tue, 03 Nov 2009
AFP - Spanish novelist Francisco Ayala, whose works dealt with the abuse of power and who taught at several top universities in the US, died Tuesday at his home in Madrid, his foundation said. He was 103.
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| Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss dies at 100
Tue, 03 Nov 2009
Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died.
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| Poetry |
American Pastoral
Thu, 19 Nov 2009
By Jonathan Raban Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field by Anne Whiston Spirn Published in 1935 in the middle of the Depression, William Empson's Some Versions of Pastoral casts a hard modern light on sixteenth.- and seventeenth-century poems...
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| Stephen King publishes poem in Playboy
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
The Bone Church, a narrative work about an ill-fated jungle expedition, appears in November edition Marge Simpson's appearance as its cover girl has attracted a frenzy of media attention, but this month's edition of Playboy magazine contains another, almost equally unexpected celebrity appearance: from. author Stephen King, making a very...
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| Prizes |
U.K. author wins $75,000 US Cundill History Prize
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
British historian Lisa Jardine has won the Cundill History Prize for her book Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory, which tells the story of a Britain occupied by a foreign power.
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| Canadian, American writers win French literary prizes (AFP)
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
AFP - Haitian-born Canadian writer Dany Laferriere and American novelist Dave Eggers on Wednesday were awarded France's Medicis literary prize celebrating original writing.
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| Novelist NDiaye wins France's top literary prize
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
French-born writer Marie NDiaye has won the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize, for Three Strong Women, her moving tale of the struggles of women in Europe and Africa.
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| NDiaye, Novelist, Wins France’s Top Literary Prize
Tue, 03 Nov 2009
The French writer Marie NDiaye won France’s Prix Goncourt on Monday for “Three Strong Women,” her tale of the struggles of women in Europe and Africa.
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| New Martel book on Holocaust 'shocking'
Sat, 31 Oct 2009
British publisher Canongate has revealed that Canadian author Yann Martel's first book since his 2002 Booker Prize winner Life of Pi will focus on the Holocaust.
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| Reviews |
Review: 'SuperFreakonomics' as fun as predecessor (AP)
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
AP - "SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance" (William Morrow, 320 pages. $29.99) by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner: In their 2005 book "Freakonomics," economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen. J. Dubner used dozens of interesting...
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| How to Find the Best of Lange
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
Jonathan Raban Hopi man, 1920s; photograph by Dorothea Lange (Oakland Museum of California) Some visual footnotes to my piece on Dorothea Lange in the new issue of The New York Review . I wrote about her work for the Farm Security Administration and her famous photograph Migrant Mother , and also discussed other areas of her...
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| Fiction Book Reviews: 11/2/2009
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
Reviewed this week, new books by T.C. Boyle, Douglas Preston, Louise Erdrich, Jack Higgins, Jerome Charyn and Jim Harrison. Plus, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein creates an "athiest with a soul," Katherine McMahon unravels a post-WWI mystery, Wallace Stroby kicks off what looks like a promising new series., and Bill Flanagan chronicles 40...
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| Review: 'The Road Out of Hell' a chilling tale (AP)
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
AP - "The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders" (Union Square Press, 304 pages, $24.95), by Anthony Flacco, with Jerry Clark: This is a darkly disturbing true account of a 13-year-old boy, Sanford Clark, sent to live with his uncle on an isolated chicken. farm in California in 1926...
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| Web Exclusive Book Reviews: Week of 11/2/2009
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
This week: stars for Michael Psilakis's How to Roast a Lamb, Andrew Smith's Eating History, Peter Nichols's Final Voyage, Rebecca K. O'Connor's Lift, Desmond Morris's Planet Ape, and Sherry Jones's The Sword of Medina. Plus: journalist Amy Goodman, conservationist Lawrence Anthony, actor Robert Englund., ex-J.A.P. Lisa Fineberg Cook...
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| Simon & Schuster Unveils Internal E-galley System
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
Simon & Schuster has unveiled an e-galley program to provide digital ARCs to the media. Galley Grab, which is still in beta at www.galleygrab.com, offers DRM protected downloads of S&S titles, for review and feature coverage, which can be read on varioues e-readers, including the Sony eReader. and the Nook.
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| Review: Michael Chabon explores manhood in book (AP)
Tue, 03 Nov 2009
AP - "Manhood for Amateurs" (Harper, 320 pages, $25.99), by Michael Chabon: The singular experience of becoming a father can change everything. This seems to include — for literary papas — what you want to write about.
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| Review of Roses by Leila Meacham
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
This enthralling stunner, a good old-fashioned read, may herald the overdue return of those delicious doorstop epics from such writers as Barbara Taylor Bradford and Colleen McCullough.
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| Telling Tales by Melissa Katsoulis and Poisoned Pens by Gary Dexter: review
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
Melissa Katsoulis's Telling Tales and Gary Dexter's Poisoned Pens reveal writers with a talent for hoaxes and invective as well as prose finds Mark Sanderson
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| The Arabs by Eugene Rogan: review
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
Eugene Rogan's history of the Arabs tells a story of humiliation at the hands of outsiders finds Noel Malcolm
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| The Humbling by Philip Roth: review
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
Michael Prodger is disappointed by The Humbling Philip Roth's latest tale of the travails of age
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| Spirituality |
Al-Qaeda: The Uzbek Branch in Pakistan
Wed, 04 Nov 2009
Christian Caryl A poster created by the US military for Tahir Yuldashev, leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, who was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan on August 27, 2009 Most of the reports about the Pakistani Army’s offensive in Waziristan have mentioned the Islamist extremists. from Uzbekistan hiding out there...
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| General |
Linklog: Sontag on Claude Lévi-Strauss, AA on the block, and more
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
Susan Sontag's estimate of the late Claude Lévi-Strauss , projected forwards to us by way of two excellent blogs . • Is it possible to be addicted to books signed by the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous ? The follow-up, with auction prices, suggests yes . • "Sadly," confesses dovegreyreader. , "my heart doesn't do that little...
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| Roberto Bolaño was no literary rebel, says novelist
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
The myths surrounding the late Chilean author are false, says Bolaño's friend and fellow novelist, Horacio Castellanos Moya He's been compared to James Dean and described as the "Kurt Cobain of Latin-American literature", but the real Roberto Bolaño was very different to the myth created by the. North American cultural establishment...
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| Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed?
Thu, 19 Nov 2009
By David Cole Race, Incarceration, and American Values by Glenn C. Loury, with Pamela S. Karlan, Tommie Shelby, and Loïc Wacquant Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice by Paul Butler Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities: Reentry, Race, and Politics by Anthony C. Thompson With. approximately 2.3 million people in...
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| A Great Jump to Disaster?
Thu, 19 Nov 2009
By Tim Flannery The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James Lovelock James Lovelock: In Search of Gaia by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? by Peter Ward The idea that Earth is a living thing goes back at least as. far as Plato, who according to Francis...
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| Assassin's Creed Renaissance: play the game, then read the book
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
Cross-platform convergence is something games makers are getting very excited about, and it's easy to see why Cross-platform convergence is something games makers are getting increasingly excited about, and it's easy to see why; release a song, game, action figure set, movie or television series all. at once all under the same branding...
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| What Michael Haneke owes to Kafka | Peter Bradshaw
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
As the Austrian director's Cannes-winning The White Ribbon arrives in UK cinemas, a long-overdue viewing of his film of The Castle has opened my eyes to another thread running through his work Michael Haneke's new film The White Ribbon is to be released next week. With the director's steadily advancing. reputation, his big commercial...
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| Napoleon's Eye
Thu, 19 Nov 2009
By Peter Brooks Dominique-Vivant Denon: L'oeil de Napoléon an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, October 20, 1999–January 17, 2000 Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Andrew McClellan No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon, translated. from the French by Lydia Davis...
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| Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence
Thu, 19 Nov 2009
By Sue Halpern Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus, with Karl Weber This past July, a little over a year after the United. Nations Security Council finally...
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| Secret Love in the Lost City
Thu, 19 Nov 2009
By Pico Iyer The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely Istanbul, with its many signs of the time when it was the center of the world, becomes something of a museum in the work of Orhan Pamuk, a writer clearly in love with memory itself, and his hometown., and everything that's been lost...
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| Fury after women writers excluded from 'books of the year'
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
Campaigners incensed after Publishers Weekly's top 10 titles of 2009 ignores female authors US trade magazine Publishers Weekly has come under fire for failing to include a single woman in its list of the top 10 titles of 2009. From Richard Holmes's history of science in the Romantic generation, The Age of Wonder, to Blake Bailey's...
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| Weiss to St. Martin's
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
Veteran publishing exec Dan Weiss has a new job as publisher at large at St. Martin’s, reporting to Matthew Shear, who is senior v-p and publisher of the house’s paperback and consumer reference groups. Weiss will work on developing content for Gen Y readers—“emerging adults who. are navigating career, love and...
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| Radio catch-up: Woman's Hour, Today, The News Quiz and Money Box Live
Thu, 05 Nov 2009
Radio 4 deserves its success: controller Mark Damazer is doing outstandingly well Last week brought the giddying news that Radio 4 has attracted more than 10m listeners – a 10-year high for the station . Is anyone surprised? Serious times call for serious broadcasting, etc. But if the economy has. given Radio 4 a lift, that's only...
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| Dreams of Better Schools
Thu, 19 Nov 2009
By Andrew Delbanco The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools by E.D. Hirsch Jr. Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of Us by Mike Rose When Mike Rose, who teaches in the Graduate School of Education at UCLA, made some positive remarks about public schools on a call-in radio show. a few years ago, one listener...
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| Barnes & Noble Touts Three-Prong Approach
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
Try as it might, Barnes & Noble has had a hard time convincing investors and analysts that, as reading moves more and more to e-books, there is a place for retailers that derive most their revenue—and profits—from the sale of print books. In a 90-minute presentation October 27, B&N's management. team did its best to persuade...
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| A Nazi at Harvard
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
Anthony Grafton Ernst Hanfstaengl (center, with raised arm), who served as foreign press chief for the Nazi party, in the Harvard Class of 1909 parade, June, 1934, from Stephen Norwood’s The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower , courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Print Department In 1934, the. Harvard class of 1909 held its 25th...
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| Ordinary Heroes: Barbara O'Connor's latest book, 'The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis,' is a big treat
Sun, 01 Nov 2009
Popeye lives with his grandmother, Velma, who recites the names of the kings and queens of England in chronological order so she won’t go crazy. What else should we know about Popeye’s life? Popeye lives in a small Southern town with nothing to do in the summer, and he’s bored. And. then, lo and behold, a shiny silver...
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| Book artfully chronicles women's revolution (AP)
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
AP - "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present" (Little, Brown and Company, 480 pages, $27.99), by Gail Collins: In 1960, a secretary named Lois Rabinowitz was reprimanded by a New York City judge for appearing in court wearing slacks. Less. than 50 years later in the same city...
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| The fictional world of Charlotte Grimshaw
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
Richard Lea meets a writer who is acutely conscious of the tension between fact and fabrication "Oh God, did I?" With a sharp intake of breath, Charlotte Grimshaw puts a hand to her mouth, a dim recollection surfacing in her mind. She shakes her head. "The internet . " An embarrassed laugh. "Ah shit., I did too. I'd forgotten about that...
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| Author Ken Auletta searches for the Google story (AP)
Mon, 02 Nov 2009
AP - "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It" (The Penguin Press, 336 pages, $25.95), by Ken Auletta. Google is best understood in terms of billions. Three billion searches are conducted daily on the site. Company revenues last year exceeded $22 billion. It spent $1.76 billion. for YouTube and $3.2 billion...
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| The digested read
Tue, 03 Nov 2009
Cape, £12.99 He'd lost his magic. The impulse was spent. Perhaps not the wisest admission from someone who has spent the last decade writing the same book, but the truth nonetheless. Simon Axler, let's call him Simon Axler, had never failed in the theatre, let's call it theatre; everything he had done. had been successful. But now, at...
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