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Book Review: Cell by Stephen King
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:02 GMT
To call novelist Kristin Hannah simply a women’s fiction writer is an understatement. She is the author of New York Times bestsellers such as True Colors, Firefly Lane, and, most recently Winter Garden. However, to dismiss Hannah’s writing as “women’s fiction” or &ldquo.;book .
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| Interview: New York Times Bestselling Author Kristin Hannah on Writing and Relationships
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:08 GMT
To call novelist Kristin Hannah simply a women’s fiction writer is an understatement. She is the author of New York Times bestsellers such as True Colors, Firefly Lane, and, most recently Winter Garden. However, to dismiss Hannah’s writing as “women’s fiction” or &ldquo.;book .
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| Paperback Fiction Bestsellers For March 18
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
The long-time bestselling paperback, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, by Swedish author Stieg Larsson, has been adapted into a movie, which opens in theaters on Friday.
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| Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers For March 18
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
American readers can’t get enough of Chelsea Handler . Chelsea Chelsea Bang Ba ng is the comedian's third book to make the bestseller lists in recent weeks.
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| Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For March 18
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
In Angelology, Danielle Trussoni uses Biblical inspiration to create a species of nefarious creatures that are the product of angel-human unions.
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| Biographies |
Karl Rove 'In The Fight' Again With New Memoir
Wed, 17 Mar 2010
The book by the conservative strategist is called Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight. Rove tells Fresh Air the decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 was not based on wrong information from the Bush administration, but was based on wrong information from the intelligence. community.
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| Interview with Zoe Fitzgerald Carter, author of Imperfect Endings
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:14 GMT
Emotions run high when people discuss Zoe Fitzgerald Carter’s recently released memoir Imperfect Endings. The book chronicles her mother’s choice to end her life when faced with the prospect of dying slowly from Parkinson’s disease (as well as other serious health issues) and her desire. .
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| Book Review: The Good Book – The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read......... Every Single Word of the Bible by David Plotz
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:20 GMT
Emotions run high when people discuss Zoe Fitzgerald Carter’s recently released memoir Imperfect Endings. The book chronicles her mother’s choice to end her life when faced with the prospect of dying slowly from Parkinson’s disease (as well as other serious health issues) and her desire. .
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| Famed for divorce, Yemeni girl set to read memoir (Reuters)
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Reuters - In a harrowing memoir she has yet to read herself, Nujood Ali tells how at age 9 she was forced to marry a man three times her age, raped and beaten, then made Yemeni history by getting a divorce.
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| Book Review | 'Backing Into Forward: A Memoir,' by Jules Feiffer
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
In this frequently hilarious memoir, the acclaimed cartoonist Jules Feiffer offers a vision of New York City during the cultural and political foment of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s.
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| Books of The Times: ‘Lonelyhearts’ by Marion Meade: Lives of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
A grating dual biography of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney, a defiantly odd couple with literary, Hollywood and Broadway connections, who died young in a car crash in 1940.
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| Nonfiction Chronicle - Books by Alex Lemon, Daniel Menaker, C. S. Manegold and Malcolm Jones
Sat, 20 Mar 2010
Memoirs of surviving brain surgery and a difficult childhood, a primer on the art of conversation and a history of a northern slave estate.
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| 3 histories receive Bancroft Prize (AP)
Wed, 17 Mar 2010
AP - Biographies of Abigail Adams and Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange are among the winners of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for history.
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| Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen by Jimmy McDonough: review
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
Tammy Wynette rarely stood by her man, finds Helen Brown, as she delves into the soulful new biography by Jimmy McDonough
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| Book Review | 'The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them,' by Elif Batuman
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
An entertaining memoir-cum-travelogue of a grad student’s improbable education in Russian language and literature.
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| Book Review | 'Keeping the Feast: One Couple’s Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy,' by Paula Butturini
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
A memoir of how cooking helped save the marriage of Paula Butturini and her husband, reporters traumatized by war.
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| The PW Morning Report: Monday, March 15, 2010
Mon, 15 Mar 2010
A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across theWeb: Judi Dench Memoir; iPad's.
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| Letters: Sound and Fury
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
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| Letters: Borgesian Cartography
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
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| Letters: Dostoyevsky Suggests
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
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| Children's |
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford | Book review
Sun, 21 Mar 2010
Mitford's genius lies in the wicked humour with which she recounts the travails of the spirited Radletts I read The Pursuit of Love as a child, mystified and delighted by the spirited Radletts and their terrifying father, and have returned to it at least once a year ever since. It is a darker book. than I first realised, the...
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| Random House Roundup: Reviews of Five Picture Books
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:47 GMT
When you receive five picture books in the mail for review over a two-day period, what do you do? For this reviewer, the answer was simple – bedtime stories! (Uh, I mean test audience…) The colorful assortment arrived courtesy of several imprints of Random House Children’s books (Schwartz. .
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| Book Review: Crack between the Worlds by Carmen Stenholm
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:38 GMT
When you receive five picture books in the mail for review over a two-day period, what do you do? For this reviewer, the answer was simple – bedtime stories! (Uh, I mean test audience…) The colorful assortment arrived courtesy of several imprints of Random House Children’s books (Schwartz. .
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| Book Review: Angelology by Daniella Trussoni
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:42 GMT
When you receive five picture books in the mail for review over a two-day period, what do you do? For this reviewer, the answer was simple – bedtime stories! (Uh, I mean test audience…) The colorful assortment arrived courtesy of several imprints of Random House Children’s books (Schwartz. .
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| Book Review: Chosen: The Lost Diaries of Queen Esther (Lost Loves of the Bible #1) by Ginger Garrett
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:22 GMT
When you receive five picture books in the mail for review over a two-day period, what do you do? For this reviewer, the answer was simple – bedtime stories! (Uh, I mean test audience…) The colorful assortment arrived courtesy of several imprints of Random House Children’s books (Schwartz. .
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| Children's Books
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Top 5 at a Glance 1. THE EASTER EGG, written and illustrated by Jan Brett 2. DISNEY’S ALICE IN WONDERLAND: THE VISUAL GUIDE, by Jo Casey and Laura Gilbert 3. THE LION AND THE MOUSE, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney 4. WADDLE!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder 5. LISTEN TO THE WIND, by. Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth...
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| Muslim group calls textbooks discriminatory (Reuters)
Wed, 17 Mar 2010
Reuters - Muslim activists launched a campaign on Wednesday against a series of educational books that they say promote anti-Islamic sentiment among U.S. school children.
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| A series of textbooks is called "inflammatory" and anti-Muslim
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
A Muslim-American advocacy group speaks out against a set of children's textbooks that it says unfairly depicts Islam.
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| Book Review | 'Blooms of Darkness,' by Aharon Appelfeld
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
In this novel with echoes of Anne Frank’s diary, a Jewish child is hidden in a brothel during the Holocaust.
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| The Death and Life of the Great American School System
Tue, 16 Mar 2010
Noted policymaker Diane Ravitch says she was wrong to jump on the No Child Left Behind bandwagon.
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| 'Dog Boy' unleashes a haunting, heartfelt tale
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Eva Hornung's story about a feral child adopted by a pack of stray dogs is beautifully written.
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| Million-Copy Print Run for Grisham's First Kids' Book
Wed, 17 Mar 2010
Dutton has revealed the cover art and first printing for John Grisham's first book for young.
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| All-New Shel Silverstein Poetry Collection Due in 2011
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
HarperCollins Children's Books has announced the fall 2011 release of a collection of.
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| Comics |
Manga Review: Blood Honey by Sakyou Yozakura
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:40 GMT
Heather Graham’s The Dead Room is a smooth concoction that’s equal parts ghost story, mystery, thriller, and archeological tale. The author keeps enough balls in the air that the read is entertaining and event-driven as well as filled with characters that step off the page. Lesley MacIntyre. .
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| Graphic Novel Review: The Chill by Jason Starr and Mick Bertilorenzi
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:03 GMT
Jason Starr is a good crime writer who is capable of sinking completely into the noir mindset. I’ve enjoyed his books while at the same time being appalled by them. There just aren’t any dark places that Starr is afraid to go. And he drags his readers right along with him through the worst. .
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| Comic Review: Jackpot #1 by Marc Guggenheim, Adriana Melo, and Mariah Benes
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:58 GMT
Jackpot is evidently the newest super heroine out of the Marvel Comics stable, and underwritten by Spider-Man himself. I was instantly drawn to the cover by Dave Yardin because of the colors and the fact that Jackpot was evidently female, as evidenced by the skintight bodysuit. Also, the notification. .
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| Book Review: Corsair by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:19 GMT
Corsair was my first Clive Cussler/Jack Du Brul Oregon Files novel, and I don’t know why I haven’t started reading the series sooner. I was fascinated by the idea of an ultra-secret mini-fighting ship on steroids concept, but I didn’t know if it would be too much like a comic book .
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| Review: 'Wimpy Kid' fleshes out stick-figure novel (AP)
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
AP - The movie version of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" manages to put flesh and bone on the stick figures in Jeff Kinney's wildly successful cartoon novel without altering the book's mildly subversive comic tone.
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| Outrages are not the only truth
Sat, 20 Mar 2010
It's sad that comic novels so seldom take prizes, writes Rowan Pelling.
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| Fantagraphics Steps into Manga Publishing
Mon, 15 Mar 2010
Indie comics publisher Fantagraphics Books is the latest comics house to add manga publishing to.
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| Comics Briefly
Tue, 16 Mar 2010
X-Diary Manwha to Become American Film: Comic Book Literacy Premieres at C2E2; Bahadur, India's.
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| Emerald City Comicon Booms
Tue, 16 Mar 2010
Driven by a top-notch list of comics guests and a strong selection ofmedia guests, the eighth.
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| Comics Retailers Adapt to a Tough Economy; Look Ahead to Better Times
Mon, 15 Mar 2010
Once again, PW Comics Week talked with comics retailers from around the county—six direct.
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| Abrams to Publish Deluxe Hardcover of Archie Marries
Mon, 15 Mar 2010
Abrams ComicsArts is teaming with Archie Comics to publish Archie Marries, a special deluxe.
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| Current Events |
Profit And 'Peril' In The Secret Nuclear Trade
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
Until his arrest in 2004, nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan — the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb — ran a vast smuggling network that sent nuclear materiel to Iran and Libya. In his book Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemies, weapons expert David Albright explains. how Khan's network continues to...
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| Abraham Lincoln Reborn As A Vampire Slayer
Sat, 20 Mar 2010
Then suppose that, in 19th-century America, the forces of good and evil battled for the soul of the new republic — what we now know as the Civil War. Author Seth Grahame-Smith explores that premise in a new book you can really sink your teeth into.
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| Book Review | 'The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations,' by Ira Berlin
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Ira Berlin reconceptualizes African-American history as the story of a people uprooted and searching for home.
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| Fiction |
Point Omega by Don DeLillo | Book review
Sun, 21 Mar 2010
DeLillo's latest is hypnotic, if sometimes baffling Don DeLillo's vision has always been unusually sharp. If some writers are praised for having "ear", DeLillo, above all, has "eyes". His 16th novel is his most focused yet, a pared, intense anti-parable that begins in a New York art gallery. Imagined. art has a rich history in DeLillo's...
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| 19th-century industrial spy stole No. 1 drink (AP)
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
AP - "For All the Tea in China" (Viking, 252 pages, $25.95), by Sarah Rose: The plot for Sarah Rose's "For All the Tea in China" seems tailor-made for a Hollywood thriller: An industrial spy hired by the world's largest multinational corporation steals trade secrets. that enable the world's biggest...
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| Slide Show: The Indiana Jones of Ants
Tue, 16 Mar 2010
In her review of Harvard entomologist E.O. Wilson’s first novel, Anthill , in the April 8 issue of The New York Review, Margaret Atwood encourages anyone interested in ants to “take a look at the daring eco-adventurer Mark Moffett’s spectacular new ant book, Adventures Among Ants .” Moffett—who studied evolutionary...
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| Critique and Creativity: Drawing Out A Writer's Best
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:23 GMT
I’ve been scribbling furiously and typing to the point of renewed carpal tunnel syndrome for the last three years in an attempt to put my ideas into novel-length words. The tally? Two finished, two in various states of disrepair and a sequel being sketched out ‘for later.’ One full. .
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| Reviews in Brief: Mikansei No. 1 Volume Two by Majiko!
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:10 GMT
I’ve been scribbling furiously and typing to the point of renewed carpal tunnel syndrome for the last three years in an attempt to put my ideas into novel-length words. The tally? Two finished, two in various states of disrepair and a sequel being sketched out ‘for later.’ One full. .
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| Seven Days In Seven Lives: 'A Week In December'
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
Sebastian Faulks' satirical novel is a weeklong tour of modern London, woven together in Dickensian style. Dickens' 19th century characters dealt with class conflict, wealth, poverty and true love. Faulks' contemporary characters deal with terrorism, greed, the Internet and — because some things. never change — true love...
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| 'So Much' For Paradise: Battered By Bad Insurance
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
Lionel Shriver's novel So Much for That tells the story of Shep Knacker, who is about to retire to a tropical island when his wife gets diagnosed with cancer. To keep his insurance, Shep has to keep his hated job, but he soon discovers that even the full coverage of the fully employed may not be enough. to keep him afloat...
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| Book Review: American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us by Jesse Ventura
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:14 GMT
I recently finished reviewing Oe’s well-known novel A Personal Matter, and was impressed by the way he handled an otherwise PC situation with maturity and not drenching the reader in sentimentality. This collection, titled Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels, offers a good overview. .
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| Book Review: The Way to Stillness by Anne Alexander Vincent and Gayle Alexander
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:27 GMT
Heather Graham’s The Dead Room is a smooth concoction that’s equal parts ghost story, mystery, thriller, and archeological tale. The author keeps enough balls in the air that the read is entertaining and event-driven as well as filled with characters that step off the page. Lesley MacIntyre. .
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| Book Review: Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels by Kenzaburo Oe
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:53 GMT
I recently finished reviewing Oe’s well-known novel A Personal Matter, and was impressed by the way he handled an otherwise PC situation with maturity and not drenching the reader in sentimentality. This collection, titled Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels, offers a good overview. .
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| Book Review: Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her by Robin Gerber
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:14 GMT
I recently finished reviewing Oe’s well-known novel A Personal Matter, and was impressed by the way he handled an otherwise PC situation with maturity and not drenching the reader in sentimentality. This collection, titled Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels, offers a good overview. .
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| Book Review: The Dead Room by Heather Graham
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:02 GMT
Heather Graham’s The Dead Room is a smooth concoction that’s equal parts ghost story, mystery, thriller, and archeological tale. The author keeps enough balls in the air that the read is entertaining and event-driven as well as filled with characters that step off the page. Lesley MacIntyre. .
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| Book Review: Beguiled by Deeanne Gist and J. Mark Bertrand
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:47 GMT
I’ve been scribbling furiously and typing to the point of renewed carpal tunnel syndrome for the last three years in an attempt to put my ideas into novel-length words. The tally? Two finished, two in various states of disrepair and a sequel being sketched out ‘for later.’ One full. .
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| Interview: Mystery Author and Law Professor Alafair Burke
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:43 GMT
A good mystery or thriller weaves multiple strands, pulling intrigue from previously hidden corners. In a perfect plot, these strands form a rope strong enough to drag the reader along without release. Alafair Burke’s newest mystery 212 forms this perfect snare by tying together threads from .
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| Book Review: Conspiracy 365 January by Gabrielle Lord
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:21 GMT
A good mystery or thriller weaves multiple strands, pulling intrigue from previously hidden corners. In a perfect plot, these strands form a rope strong enough to drag the reader along without release. Alafair Burke’s newest mystery 212 forms this perfect snare by tying together threads from .
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| Toxic 'Factory': Industrial Meat And The Environment
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
David Kirby's book Animal Factory tells the story of three people whose lives have been adversely affected by the growth of factory farms. Part investigative report, part thriller, this book explores the environmental and health impact of raising animals in confinement.
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| Elif Shafak's New Book Reviewed
Wed, 17 Mar 2010
Turkish novelist Elif Shafak's new novel, The Forty Rules of Love , takes us into the life of a middle-aged Jewish woman from central Massachusetts, who as a reader for a literary agent, has just picked up a copy of a novel by a modern Sufi mystic.
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| Paperback Trade Fiction
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Top 5 at a Glance 1. LITTLE BEE, by Chris Cleave 2. THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks 3. A RELIABLE WIFE, by Robert Goolrick 4. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson 5. THE 8TH CONFESSION, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
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| Hardcover Fiction
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Top 5 at a Glance 1. HOUSE RULES, by Jodi Picoult 2. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett 3. THE SILENT SEA, by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul 4. BACKLASH, by Aaron Allston 5. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, by Seth Grahame-Smith
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| Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Top 5 at a Glance 1. THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks 2. DEAR JOHN, by Nicholas Sparks 3. FIRST FAMILY, by David Baldacci 4. SHUTTER ISLAND, by Dennis Lehane 5. THE VAMPIRE AND THE VIRGIN, by Kerrelyn Sparks
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| Interviews |
Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview & Other Conversations | Book review
Sun, 21 Mar 2010
The legend surrounding the late Roberto Bolaño is inflamed rather than explained in these playful interviews Despite the phenomenal success his work has enjoyed since his death in 2003, the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño remains a tantalising figure, a man about whom much has been said but little. is known, a magnet for all manner of...
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| After two years of silence, Rielle Hunter fires back
Tue, 16 Mar 2010
John Edwards' former mistress shares her side of the affair - and some skin - in a "doozy" of an interview with GQ.
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| Non-Fiction |
Paperback Nonfiction
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Top 5 at a Glance 1. A PATRIOT'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen 2. ARE YOU THERE, VODKA? IT'S ME, CHELSEA, by Chelsea Handler 3. MY HORIZONTAL LIFE, by Chelsea Handler 4. THE BLIND SIDE, by Michael Lewis 5. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.
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| Hardcover Nonfiction
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Top 5 at a Glance 1. CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG, by Chelsea Handler 2. COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE, by Karl Rove 3. CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, CHANGE YOUR BODY, by Daniel G. Amen 4. NO APOLOGY, by Mitt Romney 5. THE PACIFIC, by Hugh Ambrose
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| 3rd Anniversary Party: Inspirational, YA, E-Books, Nonfiction
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
Thursday has always been an inspirational day for me. Inspiring me to look forward to the weekend…normally. But today is special all by itself. We have inspirational writers, YA writers,.
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| TBR: Inside the List
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
The comedian Chelsea Handler beats out Karl Rove for the top spot on the hardcover nonfiction list with her new collection.
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| Prizes |
Orange Prize: Women authors can lighten up and still be taken seriously
Sun, 21 Mar 2010
When Daisy Goodwin complained of too much 'grimness' in this year's list, she was lambasted. She should have been applauded The ever-controversial Orange Prize hit the headlines last week, when Daisy Goodwin, the chair of the judges, complained that there had been too much "grimness" and not enough. "joy" in this year's entries. Of...
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| White Egrets by Derek Walcott | Book review
Sun, 21 Mar 2010
Derek Walcott is a ghostly figure in this collection in which he contemplates his own demise Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1992 – and the book that earned him his reputation was Omeros , an outstanding homage to Homer written with buoyant originality. But the Nobel prize. has done Walcott no favours...
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| Reviews |
36 Arguments for the Existence of God by Rebecca Goldstein | Book review
Sun, 21 Mar 2010
This satire on academia and religion is crippled by its need to show how clever it is With atheism fashionable and religious fundamentalism on the rise, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God gently mocks the delusions of both the godly and the godless. Cass Seltzer is an academic psychologist at a. middle-ranking university whose book...
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| Speak for Britain!: A New History of the Labour Party by Martin Pugh | Book review
Sun, 21 Mar 2010
Roy Hattersley finds this history of his own party to be long on detail but short on analysis Most of the details are there. Those wishing to know the exact composition of the TUC which met Ramsay MacDonald to protest against the Labour government's proposed cut in unemployment benefit have only to. turn to page 213 of Martin Pugh's...
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| Slide Show: Houdon's Sensuous Sculpture
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
In “ The Best Faces of the Enlightenment ,” from the April 8 issue of The New York Review, Willibald Sauerländer writes about a new exhibition of the work of Jean-Antoine Houdon, whom he calls “the last and probably greatest French sculptor of the eighteenth century.” In his works—a selection. of which can be seen in this...
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| Book Review: The Other 8 Hours: Maximize Your Free Time to Create New Wealth and Purpose by Robert Pagliarini
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:59 GMT
Life begins at 5pm, according to Pagliarini. That’s when you can strategize and escape from what he calls the “Living Dead” and the “Dead Broke.” Getting more time can mean the different between a full day and a fulfilling one. Pagliarini’s writing flows in a conversational. .
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| Book Review: Jesus for the Non-Religious by John Shelby Spong
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:55 GMT
Jesus has been taking it on the chin lately in the literary world. After author and scholar shredded the New Testament in his hit books Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why and Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don.'t .
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| Book Review: The Treasure Principle: Unlocking the Secret of Joyful Giving by Randy Alcorn
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:41 GMT
The Treasure Principle is a small book, a tiny hardcover that can easily slip into handbags (close to the wallet appropriately), and can easily pass for a gift book. At only 120 small format pages, it isn’t a long read, nor is it an extensive read, but when it comes to delivering concise, motivating. .
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| Book Review: Burning Bright by Ron Rash
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:47 GMT
If a place can have a flavor, then the Appalachian hill country of Ron Rash’s short story collection Burning Bright has notes of hope and persistence underlying the bitter bite of despair. These are not happy stories; these are stories of people so lost that they will return to the bed of a husband. .
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| Book Review: After Her Brain Broke: Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity by Susan Inman
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:40 GMT
A New York advertising firm promises dedicated Lindsey Rose the vice-presidency of their firm. In The Opposite of Me, Lindsey Rose is about to bring in a huge advertising account — Gloss Cosmetics. At the last minute, Lindsey’s co-worker, who has her own advertising campaign, uses feminine. .
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| Book Review: Lovesick by Jake Coburn
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:01 GMT
Lovesick is one of those compelling, can’t-put-it-down emotional rollercoasters that sneak up on me every now and again. This one was given to me by a friend, so I have to admit that I wasn’t even looking for something like this. I’m more the car chase, shoot ‘em up kind of guy. .
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| Book Review: Pride and Prejudice And Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:39 GMT
A New York advertising firm promises dedicated Lindsey Rose the vice-presidency of their firm. In The Opposite of Me, Lindsey Rose is about to bring in a huge advertising account — Gloss Cosmetics. At the last minute, Lindsey’s co-worker, who has her own advertising campaign, uses feminine. .
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| Book Review: The Opposite of Me by Sarah Pekkanen
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:15 GMT
A New York advertising firm promises dedicated Lindsey Rose the vice-presidency of their firm. In The Opposite of Me, Lindsey Rose is about to bring in a huge advertising account — Gloss Cosmetics. At the last minute, Lindsey’s co-worker, who has her own advertising campaign, uses feminine. .
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| Book Review: The Overnight Socialite by Bridie Clark
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:34 GMT
In this modern-day retelling of the classic My Fair Lady, Bridie Clark makes poor Lucy Jo, a sweet yet clumsy young lady from Minnesota, jump through all the hoops that Wyatt Hayes IV (a brilliant yet bored anthropologist and, as the "IV" in his name might have clued you in on, whose family. .
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| Book Review: Think Outside the Box Office by Jon Reiss
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:36 GMT
Let me save a few of you some time. If you are at all considering creating or producing an independent film, stop reading right now and just go ahead and buy this book. Jon Reiss's Think Outside the Box Office is not only well-researched but well lived in, as Reiss himself has used many of these. .
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| Book Review: Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Days of Paranoia by Francis Wheen
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:08 GMT
There's a saying a number of people my age share: "If you remember the '70s, it means you didn't live through them." British journalist and author Francis Wheen, though, has me thinking that maybe that lack of memory was not chemically induced but, rather, the result of trying .
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| Book Review: The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories Edited by Robert B. Strassler
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:49 GMT
Herodotus is well known as the “father of history”. As the first writer to use the Greek “historie,” meaning an inquiry, when speaking of examining the events of the past, his seminal work The Histories has never seen such a comprehensive, modern treatment as it has received .
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| The World that Never Was by Alex Butterworth: review
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
Christopher Howse discovers how destitution and pride fuelled the anarchists of late 19th-century Europe, in Alex Butterworth's new book, The World that Never Was
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| Book Review | 'The Harvard Psychedelic Club,' by Don Lattin
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
A group portrait of Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil and their experiments with hallucinogens in the early 1960s.
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| The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena by Diane Hennacy Powell - review
Mon, 15 Mar 2010
The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena by Diane Hennacy Powell offers a 'science-based' look at psychic phenomena.
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| Zeitoun by Dave Eggers: review
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
Sameer Rahim finds strength and hope in the story of Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, about the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina in New Orleans
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| Book Review | 'The Genius in All of Us,' by David Shenk
Sat, 20 Mar 2010
David Shenk argues that discipline, not giftedness, is vital to greatness.
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| Spirituality |
Lenten Thoughts
Mon, 15 Mar 2010
Garry Wills Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation of Christ I say the rosary every day according to the church season, choosing one of the four sets of gospel “mysteries” (joyful, luminous, sorrowful, glorious) to reflect onthe life of Jesus . Since it is now Lent, I am saying the. sorrowful mysteries, those that deal...
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| March 18: In Brief
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
This week, Holly Black spreads the word on her new series, the Hans Christian Andersen Medal.
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For the record: the week's corrections
Sun, 21 Mar 2010
" UK security firm joins bidding for world's biggest detective agency " (Business) inaccurately stated that Control Risks, the business risk consultancy, was poised to bid for Kroll, the security and detection company, and had "declined to comment". We should make clear that Control Risks has no such. intention of bidding and at no stage...
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| The Blustering Blast
Wed, 17 Mar 2010
Charles Simic Jan Jansson: Map of the Winds, c. 1650 (detail) For someone like me who lives in New Hampshire, cold and snow are things I take in stride, the way I fancy the inhabitants of the tropics barely take notice of the hot muggy days they have there. It’s the howling wind that discombobulates. me, the one a neighbor calls...
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| Blogging, Now and Then
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
Robert Darnton Nouvellistes gossiping and reading in a café of the Palais-Royal (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) Blogging brings out the hit-and-run element in communication. Bloggers tend to be punchy. They often hit below the belt; and when they land a blow, they dash off to another target. Pow! The idea is to provoke, to...
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| Bennett shows little passion with `Queen's Lover' (AP)
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
AP - "The Queen's Lover" (William Morrow, 592 pages, $25.99), by Vanora Bennett: If ever there was a poor little princess, it was Catherine de Valois. Born to the mad King Charles VI of France and the unfaithful — some would say depraved — Queen Isabeau, Catherine grows. up neglected, often lacking food...
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| Graphic Books
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Top 5 at a Glance 1. KICK-ASS, by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. 2. THE BOOK OF GENESIS: ILLUSTRATED, by R. Crumb 3. INVINCIBLE IRON MAN OMNIBUS, VOL. 1, by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca 4. DARK TOWER: THE FALL OF GILEAD, by Robin Furth and Peter David 5. WOLVERINE: OLD MAN LOGAN, by Mark Millar. and Steve McNiven...
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| Marvel a marvel in diffuse 'Book of Grace' in NY (AP)
Wed, 17 Mar 2010
AP - Elizabeth Marvel is one of those chameleon-like stage actresses fiercely committed to character. Whatever the play — from "A Streetcar Named Desire" off-Broadway to "Top Girls" on Broadway — she transforms herself, each portrait totally different and totally credible.
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| Big business redesigns the tomato in 'Ripe' (AP)
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
AP - "Ripe: The Search for the Perfect Tomato" (Counterpoint, 304 pages, $26), by Arthur Allen: "Ripe" is the latest in a rapidly growing number of books examining U.S. agricultural and food production systems and their affect on public health and the environment.
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| Which is more useful, a guidebook or a travel app? (AP)
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
AP - A comprehensive travel guidebook can feel like a brick in your luggage. Yet smart phone travel guides are not always a good alternative. They can overwhelm users with potentially unreliable user-generated content or underwhelm them with a flashy interface and little true substance.
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| Paperback Advice
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Top 5 at a Glance 1. FOOD RULES, by Michael Pollan 2. NOW EAT THIS!, by Rocco DiSpirito 3. WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel 4. THE BELLY FAT CURE, by Jorge Cruise 5. COOK THIS, NOT THAT!, by David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding
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| The South Bank Show: final cut
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
For decades Melvyn Bragg has persuaded key artistic figures of the age to talk with extraordinary candour: Here he considers the influence of The South Bank Show, and relives his encounters with Paul McCartney, Alan Bennett, Martin Amis, Tracey Emin and Eric Clapton
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| Barnes & Noble names new CEO in e-books push (Reuters)
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
Reuters - Barnes & Noble Inc promoted the executive who spearheaded the development and launch of its Nook electronic reader to chief executive on Thursday, as the largest specialty U.S. bookseller accelerates its push into digital books.
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| 3rd Anniversary Party: Romance Blowout
Sat, 20 Mar 2010
It’s already Saturday, last day of the week-long party, but have no fear I’m still ready for action. This is our big romance blowout and we have a ton of prizes to give away. Romance has.
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| Hardcover Advice
Fri, 19 Mar 2010
Top 5 at a Glance 1. PAYBACK TIME, by Phil Town 2. THE KIND DIET, by Alicia Silverstone 3. SWITCH, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath 4. THE HAPPINESS PROJECT, by Gretchen Rubin 5. REWORK, by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
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| Negative Images 'Brainwash' African Americans
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
Ad man Tom Burrell calls out negative images of African Americans in the media for perpetuating the myth of black inferiority. In Brainwashed, he examines the history of the myth and how contemporary culture reinforces it.
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| Posner says he failed to source material for book (AP)
Wed, 17 Mar 2010
AP - An author and journalist who resigned last month from the Internet news site The Daily Beast over allegations of lifting material acknowledged that passages in his latest book are similar to those of another writer.
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| 'Girldrive' hits the road for feminism
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:24 GMT
The idea for the cross-country road trip was hatched during a girlfriend brunch of eggs and Bloody Marys. Emma Bernstein and Nona Willis Aronowitz were consumed with one question: What does feminism mean today?
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| McGraw-Hill renews magazine deal with contractors (AP)
Wed, 17 Mar 2010
AP - McGraw-Hill Construction, part of publishing house The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., said Wednesday it extended its publishing agreement with the Associated General Contractors of America for two more years.
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| Barnes & Noble makes CEO switch (AP)
Thu, 18 Mar 2010
AP - Barnes & Noble changed CEOs Thursday, elevating the president of its Web site to lead the company, a surprise move that highlights the importance of digital books to the bookseller's future.
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| Books of The Times: A Call for the Commonweal: Tony Judt’s ‘Ill Fares the Land’
Wed, 17 Mar 2010
Tony Judt’s new book is a dying man’s sense of a dying idea: the notion that the state can play a significant role in its citizens’ lives without imperiling their liberties.
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| 3rd Anniversary Party: Publishers, Editors, Bloggers, Librarians
Wed, 17 Mar 2010
Day 3…Hump Day and this place is just getting warmed up. Today we move from New Orleans to New York where most of the publishers are located. Hopefully, they’ll take a few minutes from.
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