Like a Rolling Stone...
Sunday January 30, 2005
Nominees for The National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced last week. The nominees in the Fiction category are:
Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker (Knopf)Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty ... Read More
Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947- 1954
Tuesday January 25, 2005
35 years after his death, Jack Kerouac remains a fascinating and enigmatic literary figure. Hailed as the king of the beats, Kerouac was held up as an icon of ... Read More
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Saturday January 22, 2005
In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell explored how mass change, epidemic, works - how just a little input can spark enormous interest. It's no wonder then that Blink, Malcolm ... Read More
Michael Crichton's State of Fiction
Thursday January 20, 2005
Michael Crichton's techno-thriller State of Fear takes the reader from the glaciers of Iceland to the volcanoes of Antarctica, from the Arizona desert to the deadly jungles of the Solomon ... Read More
Spy Novelist, Le Carre, Still Has It
Wednesday January 19, 2005
In Absolute Friends, John le Carre delivers the masterpiece he has been building to since the fall of communism: an epic tale of loyalty and betrayal that spans the lives ... Read More
Martin Luther King Day
Monday January 17, 2005
The third monday of each January is Martin Luther King Day in honor of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. whose birthday was January 15, 1929. King is unparalleled ... Read More
Writers Join in Tsunami Relief Effort
Sunday January 16, 2005
On March 3, Bloomsbury will publish New Beginnings, a collection of beginning chapters from the yet unpublished work of some of the world's leading writers. All proceeds from the ... Read More
Double Shot
Wednesday January 12, 2005
New York Times bestselling author Diane Mott Davidson has taken readers by storm with clever mysteries filled with tantalizing plots and mouthwatering recipes. In Double Shot, her twelfth novel, the ... Read More
McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories
Saturday January 8, 2005
Michael Chabon is back with a brand new collection that reinvigorates the stayupallnight, edgeoftheseat, fingernailbiting, pageturning tradition of literary short stories, featuring Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Peter Straub, David Mitchell, ... Read More
Whitbread Awards Winners Announced
Thursday January 6, 2005
Novel: Small Island by Andrea Levy
First novel: Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
Biography: My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy
Children's: Not the ... Read More
The Annotated Bookshelf
Wednesday January 5, 2005
This photoblogger has posted a photo of his to-be-read bookshelf. When you mouse over the books, an annotation for each one appears. Very cool!
Thanks to Scott for the ... Read More
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
Sunday January 2, 2005
Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate. In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, she explores this legacy, as well as American circumstances, and ... Read More