Oprah Picks A New Earth
Thursday January 31, 2008
Yesterday, Oprah announced her latest addition to Oprah's Book Club - Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth, in which the spiritual teacher/author extols present moment awareness and the dismantling of the ... Read More
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Sunday January 27, 2008
In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling ... Read More
Wearable Magazines
Friday January 25, 2008
Earlier this week, I blogged about how message finds new a new medium in Japanese cellphone novels. Here's another example of the same phonomenon - T-post, a subscription-based mini-magazine ... Read More
The Whale Warriors by Peter Heller
Monday January 21, 2008
In December 2005, adventure-writer Peter Heller joined the crew of the Farley Mowat, a 50-year-old converted Norwegian fishing trawler and the flagship of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, on a ... Read More
Japan's Cellphone Novelists Capture a Mobile Audience
Sunday January 20, 2008
A new breed of Japanese novels is on the rise - cellphone novels. Short on sentence structure, plot, and characterizaation, cellphone novels are nonetheless experiencing burgeoning popularity among Japanese ... Read More
Schulz and Peanuts
Wednesday January 16, 2008
Charles M. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives ... Read More
Try Dying by James Scott Bell
Monday January 14, 2008
Ty Buchanan is a rising star in his L.A. law firm, until the suspicious death of his fiancee forces him into the underbelly of the city to discover the truth ... Read More
Bookstores Around The World
Friday January 11, 2008
From an 800 year old converted Dominican church in The Netherlands to Kyoto's Keibunsya, The Guardian's Sean Dodson lists the world's top ten bookstores. File this under places to visit.
If ... Read More
Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs
Monday January 7, 2008
In this updated version of the classic of popular Egyptology, Barbara Mertz reveals herself to be the perfect guide to ancient Egypt for the student, the layman, and those who ... Read More
Stinky Cheese Man To Be Named Reading Ambassador
Sunday January 6, 2008
On Thursday, Jon Scieszka (pronounced SHEH-ska), author of The Stinky Chesse Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (among other books) will be dubbed America's first national ambassador for young people's ... Read More
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations
Tuesday January 1, 2008
Cartographia is a magnificent, lavishly illustrated bound collection of more than two hundred maps from around the world and throughout time. The maps within chart all manner of terrain - ... Read More