Looking for a fun yet memorable read? Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakthrough is feel-good chick-lit at the top of its game. Isabel Sharpe's latest novel ... Read More

Jonathan Lethem's proposal to film producers is brilliant! Or not. Time will tell. [ via Grumpy Old Bookman ]

There is much to recommend in David Andress' The Terror. It is a well-argued account of the causes and effects of the French Revolution, and its continuing after effects. That ... Read More

At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches by Susan Sontag was published this month by FSG. Included within this collection is an essay written shortly before her death in ... Read More

The New York Times Book Review podcast features Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End, a debut novel about an advertising firm tanking during the dotcom bust.

Readers who enjoy frightening themselves will enjoy Joe Hill's debut novel, Heart-Shaped Box. The plot suffers from some holes, the writing is invisible more than it is literary, and the ... Read More

A manuscript of Jeanette Winterson's forthcoming novel, The Stone Gods was found on a bench in a London Underground stop on Wednesday. Thanks to Maud Newton for the link.

Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss beat out Dave Eggers' What is the What, Richard Ford's The Lay of the Land, and Cormac McCarthy's The Road for the 33rd annual ... Read More

In his bestselling novel, Step on a Crack, James Patterson introduces Detective Michael Bennett, an NYPD homicide detective thrust into the middle of a mass kidnapping. Patterson is the ... Read More