Netherland Takes PEN/Faulkner Award
Thursday February 26, 2009
Joseph O'Neill's Netherland was awarded the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction, a $15,000 literary prize.
Netherland is a tale narrated by a Dutch banker about the game of cricket in post-9/11 New ... Read More
Wordless Wednesday: Book Rainbow
Wednesday February 25, 2009
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Jeff Bezos, Kindle 2 on The Daily Show
Tuesday February 24, 2009
Jeff Bezos was on The Daily Show Monday touting the merits of the new Kindle 2 which, the founder of Amazon.com explains, include the availability of 240,000 books for ... Read More
Demons in the Spring by Joe Meno
Monday February 23, 2009
Joe Meno's characters are dying. Or else they're heartbroken, or they're lonely, or dangerously disturbed. This is perhaps an overgeneralization, but Demons in the Spring has an aura of sadness ... Read More
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008
Thursday February 19, 2009
The Best American Series is known to corral some of the year's most exciting writing into a single volume full of rich voices and unique style. The Best American Science ... Read More
The Messenger by Jan Burke
Monday February 16, 2009
The Messenger is a suspenseful tale of spirits and souls. From page one, we know we're in for something otherworldly. A salvage diver hears a disembodied voice coming from a ... Read More
Audible.com 99¢ Menu
Thursday February 12, 2009
Audible.com is running a fun February short story special. In honor of the short month (yes, a very thin excuse for a promotion), they are offering up four short stories ... Read More
Wordless Wednesday: Valentine's Day Edition
Wednesday February 11, 2009
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The Domino Men by Jonathan Barnes
Monday February 9, 2009
The Domino Men is an indirect sequel to and superior to Barnes' The Somnambulist. In that novel the Directorate was fighting sleepers put into place by the Russians. Here, the ... Read More
Stephen King Calls Stephanie Meyer "Not Very Good"
Thursday February 5, 2009
In an interview with USA Weekend Magazine, Stephen King said that Stephanie Meyer, author of the bestselling Twilight series, "can't write worth a darn."
In comparing Meyer to J.K. Rowling, King ... Read More
Wordless Wednesday
Wednesday February 4, 2009
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The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
Tuesday February 3, 2009
September 1918. World War I is winding down, and some people, blacks especially, are about to lose their jobs to the “more deserving” soldiers. The Great Influenza epidemic is expanding ... Read More
Adam Gopnik's Postscript for John Updike
Monday February 2, 2009
The New Yorker's anniversary issue (on newstands today) recognizes John Updike by including numerous selections from his work, much of which was originally published in the magazine. There is also ... Read More