- Friday, April 24, 2015 from NYT > BooksIn the 1930s and ’40s, a resplendent English estate was the home of a most unconventional family.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from globeandmail - Books & MediaHer slim new book, about men and women haunted by history, isn’t the Nobel laureate’s best work
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from NYT > BooksIf National Poetry Month is partly intended to encourage poetry’s engagement with contemporary culture, two young poets reviewed in this issue are doing their part.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comRobert Galbraith is back with yet another Cormoran Strike crime novel . J.K. Rowling will publish Career of Evil , the third book under her pseudonym, and it will be released in the fall, according to Little, Brown's UK Imprint. We are p...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from bookforum.com
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from globeandmail - Books & MediaA look at Born to Walk: The Transformative Power of a Pedestrian Act and The Man Who Learned to Walk Three Times
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Daily Express :: Books FeedIF you have ever laughed at Peep Show, the award winning Channel 4 sitcom which made stars of actors David Mitchell and Robert Webb, or cynical, prescient political satire The Thick Of It, featuring explosive potty-mouth character Malcol...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from NYT > BooksRecently reviewed books of particular interest.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksFrom Shakespeare’s Coriolanus to Douglas Hurd’s thriller of a hung parliament and a surging SNP, John Dugdale on the great literary hustings Britain has a rich tradition of election fiction, but the local contests described in Victorian ...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from globeandmail - Books & MediaThe worst of the viciousness in The Winter Family occurs off-stage, and is viewed through its aftermath or from descriptions and even hints in dialogue
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Vancouver Sun - BooksIn her new poetry collection, Where The Words End And My Body Begins, Vancouver writer Amber Dawn practices the exacting poetic form called the glosa.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Books news & info from Miami Herald in Miami, FL | MiamiHerald.comA dangerous journey to Scotland during World War II forces an heiress to reassess her marriage in this novel by the author of ‘Water for Elephants’ … Click to Continue »
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comEdward Gorey’s work dwelt at the intersection of visual art and literature. He published over 100 books before his death in 2000, yet many of them contained no words at all -- only his distinctively unsettling Edwardian-style drawings. O...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from The Digital Reader
Following in the footsteps of their larger competitor Wattpad, the Melbourne-based writing platform Tablo launched a new reader analytics tool today called Scholar. Tablo Scholar was developed to offer authors a better understanding of ... - Friday, April 24, 2015 from Poetry | The GuardianGoonhilly, John Coltrane and the River Jhelum inspire four fledging talents If, as the aphorist once quipped, wisdom in the young is as unattractive as frivolity in the elderly, young poets have a tough gig. In our culture there is ...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from NYT > BooksPer Petterson’s new novel is about lost parents and the unexpectedly divergent paths of childhood friends who meet again as adults.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Vancouver Sun - BooksEsterhazy (pop. 2,467) sits in the southeastern corner of Saskatchewan. It’s a pretty typical prairie town with a main street and a flour mill that has been made a national historic site. It’s also the place where Guy Vanderh...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from NYT > BooksCokie Roberts’s “Capital Dames,” No. 10 on the hardcover nonfiction list, is about powerful women in Washington during the Civil War era.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksFifteen thought-provoking tales that form a picture of the complex network of actors in the Darfur tragedy Continue reading...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comIt was a normal Thursday afternoon. I pulled my red Prius into the garage after a long day at school, ready for the weekend. Our car ride chatter was nothing short of normal -- with my teenage son, I've learned that some days are talking...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsFollowing my earlier coverage of the latest Authors’ Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS) study on writers’ earnings and contractual terms, “The Business of Being an Author: A Survey of Author’s Earnings and Contracts,” I contacted ...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Books news & info from Miami Herald in Miami, FL | MiamiHerald.comcontains illegal HTML markup: “Alexander Maksik’s A Marker to Measure Drift , a novel told from the perspective of Jacqueline, a young Liberian woman who in the aftermath of Charles Taylor’s fallen regime has fled to the island of Santor...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Books news & info from Miami Herald in Miami, FL | MiamiHerald.comWith shadow puppets, actors and music, Chicago-based company delves into works of 20th century poet Federico Garcia Lorca as part of the O, Miami festival. … Click to Continue »
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Books and Author Interviews15 great episodes of Desert Island Discs, which began on January 29, 1942
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from bookforum.comProblems still haven't been fixed
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comThe year I turned thirty, I nearly died trekking over a mountain pass in Nepal. This was the same 17,769-foot pass through the Annapurna Circuit where, in October 2014, an unexpected snowstorm took the lives of nearly 40 people. My adven...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Vancouver Sun - BooksThe following is an excerpt from the book Headscarves and Hymens (XXX) by the Egyptian-American feminist Mona Eltahawy. She will be at the Ottawa Writers Festival on April 25 at 2 p.m. at Christ Church Cathedral. In “Distant View o...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Books news & info from Miami Herald in Miami, FL | MiamiHerald.comNobel laureate revisits familiar themes of racism, gender bias and family in this novel about a successful but troubled entrepreneur. … Click to Continue »
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from globeandmail - Books & MediaA soldier narrowly escapes death in the First World War, turns to God and renounces (for the most part) his life of sin
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Books news & info from The News and Observer in Raleigh, NC | NewsObserver.comThe Women, Wisdom and Words Book Club ladies take to the road to enhance their reading experience. … Click to Continue »
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited BooksPhilip Pullman, Margaret Atwood and Stephen Fry will write tributes to the author in a crowdfunded anthology marking his 80th birthday and his abiding influence on their work For Philip Pullman, Alan Garner is “the most important British...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Guardian Unlimited Books'I loved it sooooooo much I read it in TWO days!' Continue reading...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from NYT > BooksThe Monroeville, Ala. museum that produces the theater adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel announced that it has lost licensing rights.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Vancouver Sun - BooksThe Sun’s book club is discussing Richard Wagamese’s new novel, Medicine Walk. It’s the story of a First Nations father and son who are estranged, but who reconnect as the father prepares to die.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from The Digital Reader
Books-A-Million has launched a publishing services site called BAM Publishing DIY where it plans to charge indie authors and publishers to create and distribute their work. Developed in partnership with FastPencil (which is also providin... - Friday, April 24, 2015 from bookforum.comEntering the quagmire of online Leftism
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsSince climatologist Judith Curry ran a blog post in December 2012 titled simply “Cli Fi” about the rise of a new genre she pegged as cli-fi, with a radio segment on NPR picking up on her post and interviewing several novelist...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from globeandmail - Books & MediaThe days of ‘chick lit’ have given way to the humorous and heartbreaking world of struggling marriages
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Books and Author InterviewsReport finds less than 10 per cent of American colleges study the bard
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostThe secret is out, grammar is fun.That statement is true but wrong. It glorifies the “comma splice” — suturing two sentences with a comma rather than sectioning them with a period — and is just one of the “barbaric habits in contemporary...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comJune 1966... There were about six of us 13- to 15-year-olds crammed into a pal's bedroom, listening to records. It was the earliest co-ed hang of my life. Exciting, scary, baffling... I was abashed, trying to figure out how to talk to th...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Vancouver Sun - BooksMargaret Trudeau, wife of former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and mother of federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, says women of her generation have a whole new freedom that is a unique opportunity to realize their dreams.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from globeandmail - Books & MediaSharon Johnston’s debut novel, Matrons and Madams, was recently published by Dundurn
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Poetry | The GuardianThe poet died a century ago, but his vision of a gentle Englishness – articulating something about a nation that lacks a clear idea of itself – has a new importance today “That there’s some corner of a foreign field/ That is for ever Eng...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostA fine novel allows you to hear its throbbing heart: “In his solo he soared. He flew above the city, hovering on his dark wings. He brought out the saddest tune he’d ever found. It was the sound of empty beds and eating alone, children l...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsI wrote earlier about my experiences setting myself up as a beginning author on the Kindle store. I found the experience pretty painless, overall. But how does another web store compare? Is it easier, or harder, to set oneself up there? ...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from globeandmail - Books & MediaConfetti by Ginette Lapalme;SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki; The Disappearance of Charley Butters by Zach Worton
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from The Digital Reader
Over 3,000 apps have been released for the Apple Watch (there's even a web browser) and countless apps have been updated to support the smartwatch. That includes Glose, which just released an update today. The update adds a cluster of n... - Friday, April 24, 2015 from Vancouver Sun - BooksCalendar of Ottawa-area literary events for April and May 2015.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comPitch sessions are a staple at most writers conferences, offering authors the opportunity to sit down face-to-face with literary agents to talk about their projects. Some conferences pair writers and agents for ten minutes of one-on-one ...
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from Children's Book CouncilThis book features a collection of poems that paints vignettes from Woodson’s childhood. For her, poetry was the best way to share these biographical stories. She explained that “memory doesn’t come as a straight narrat...
- Tuesday, April 21, 2015 from GalleyCatThe cover for Salman Rushdie’s forthcoming novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, has been unveiled . BuzzFeed reports “book will be Rushdie’s first novel for adults in seven years, and was inspired by traditi...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedThis is a dazzling collection of essays on art gathered together for the first time in book form, most of which I had never seen before. Some I had read previously, but one in particular I knew intimately and for a curiously satisfying r...
- Tuesday, April 21, 2015 from GalleyCatGeneral Mills is bringing the cereal box prize into the 21st century by giving away eBooks through breakfast cereal packaging. Working with digital content distribution platform BookShout and Simon & Schuster, the CPG company has add...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsA brief young love and its impact nearly 60 years later are at the core of Örnbratt's debut. Gillian Pugsley (nee McAllister) is a free-spirited and adventurous young woman in the early 1930s. From her childhood home in Longford, Ireland...
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from Book Patrol
For National Library Week the crew at Pogona Creative and the Orange Public Library in association with Chapman University took the runaway hit by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars and gave it the book treatment. Ladies and gentleman, here is U... - Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsFour small adventures in the life of Long Tail Kitty. In the first, LTK and his friend Tony, an orange cat, try to go with their elephant friend to a magic show on a robot-run riverboat, but the robobarker says that Big E exceeds the boa...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Children's Book Council
Here’s a timeless quote from Ned Vizzini’s The Other Normals (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins, 2012): See other quotes in the series, and share your favorites! Quote #1: Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess Quote #2: Cece B... - Thursday, April 23, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksW.S. Merwin It is not until later that you have to be young it is one of the things you meant to do later but by then there is someone else living there…
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksEdith Hall Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works translated from the ancient Greek by Diane J. Rayor, with an introduction and notes by André Lardinois Sappho has probably had more words written about her in proportion to her o...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from BISGInkling 's technological solutions evolved to meet the needs of some of the world's largest educational publishers. Come hear CEO Matt MacInness discuss how technology evolves to open up new opportunities. He'll join other leading thinke...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsAn intense examination of whistleblower Edward Snowden that successfully wades through both partisan rhetoric and ideological constraints. Snowden, the former National Security Agency computer specialist who released classified documents...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedBooks advocating radical change in schools, sometimes even down to suggesting abolishing them altogether, were common during the 1960s. They are fewer today, which gives this present study a certain nostalgia value. The format over the y...
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from Whatever
[On second thought, this was not well-argued and I’m withdrawing it until I can more fairly and accurately make the point I want to make. Will update when I do. In the meantime, note to self: Don’t write screeds when operatin...
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from BookMarketingBuzzBlogWhat makes for a good presentation when you are speaking to people about your book? There are many paths to lead to the same destination, but which one is right for you? Let’s think of the end result that you want to achieve. Presu...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedFor 30-odd years, Revolver Records was Bristol's premiere independent music shop and hang-out for people to exchange news of the latest Can, Sun Ra, King Tubby or other off-piste release. Stacked with collector's vinyl and giant loudspea...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedThe great Studs terkel, who pretty well invented modern oral history in the last century, wrote: "What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognises that you respect them because you're listening. [So] they feel good about t...
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from BISG"Standards are the plumbing and electricity in the house that creativity built. They allow us to turn on the lights in rooms we only ever imagined; without them we would remain in the dark."—Mary Alice Elcock, VP of Marketing & Publi...
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from The Asian Review of Books FeedFrom the FT, WSJ, Telegraph, New York Review of Books, etc.
- Tuesday, April 21, 2015 from Farm Lane Books Blog » Farm Lane Books Blog
Five words from the blurb: anthropologist, tribe, discovery, miraculous, terrible I bought a copy of this book when Steph, one of my favourite bloggers, raved about it. It’s been sat on my shelf for ages, but I finally got around t... - Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from Book Patrol
Remember a few years back when IBM’s incredible computing machine Watson appeared on the television quiz show Jeopardy!? Well, like most technologies a lot has changed since then. Watson’s system performance is 2400% greater ... - Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedOne of Marvel’s original X-Men is gay according to a leak of pages from this week’s issue of the All New X-Men comic book.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from Publishing PerspectivesAndrea Fuentes of illustrated books publisher La Caja de Cerillos — Match Box Editions — outlines how she is trying to revolutionize reading in Mexico The post A Publishing Manifesto from Mexico’s Match Box Editions appeared first ...
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from Book Patrol
The Multnomah County Library in Oregon (think Portland) has become the first major library in the country to sustainably source the paper it uses to print patron receipts and hold slips. The library, which uses upward of 10,000 rolls of ... - Thursday, April 23, 2015 from - Books RSS Feed"What are you like when you are away from Spain?" his lover asks Ignacio Abel, the central character of Antonio Molina's immense, luminous panorama of the Spanish Civil War. He is an architect who strives to achieve simplicity in his bui...
- Tuesday, April 21, 2015 from OmnivoraciousOdds are, it's already there. Denis and Gail Boyer Hayes explore everything bovine--including everything you didn't want to know--in Cowed: The Hidden Impact of 93 Million Cows on America’s Health, Economy, Politics, Culture, and Environ...
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- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksTim Judah In mid-February a second Ukrainian ceasefire came into effect. The fighting has not stopped, though it has been much reduced. Few people think it will last. The morale of soldiers on both sides is high. Civilians who remain in ...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from The New York Review of BooksMaureen Freely Little by little, I translated myself out of Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul and back into my own. Word by word, I conjured up Istanbul circa 1962. And when I had succeeded in putting myself back there, it turned out not to be the ...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Book Patrol
Jacqeuline Rush Lee has been creating bookworks for over 15 years. Her work has been and remains a staple in most anthologies that deal with contemporary bookworks. In 1998 Rush devised an experimental process where books and periodical... - Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Children's Book Council
The following five Literary Landmarks will be dedicated during Children’s Book Week: Carl Sandburg State Historic Site, Galesburg, Illinois: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and biographer, was born and ra... - Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedRemember the “barbecue summer” of 2009? Equipped with all that modern technology has to offer, that April, the Met Office told Britain to strip off and get ready to sizzle sausages in the back garden. Three soggy, wretched months later, ...
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedWhat is the right language of love? Or sex, I should say, if I were being less British. There are those literary fiction writers who daren’t venture into that territory at all and then there are those intrepid others who have found thems...
- Tuesday, April 21, 2015 from GalleyCat“ The Liar ” by Nora Roberts has debuted on the iBooks bestsellers list this week at No. 2. Apple has released its top selling books list for paid books from iBooks in the U.S. for week ending April 20, 2015. “The Girl...
- Tuesday, April 21, 2015 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Children's Book CouncilBest Publication for Early Readers (up to age 7) BirdCatDog by Lee Nordling & Meritxell Bosch A Cat Named Tim And Other Stories by John Martz Hello Kitty, Hello 40: A Celebration in 40 Stories edited by Traci N. Todd … Read More
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Kirkus ReviewsA collection of short sayings on a variety of topics, from intelligence and politics to wealth and happiness. Aphorisms may be a lost art to many people, but Hutchison sees them as a form of twisted insight, marked by surprise, brevity, ...
- Tuesday, April 21, 2015 from GalleyCatThe all time bestseller \"A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle originally had three more pages of text than previously known. The Wall Street Journal broke the story and published these pages which were discovered by Charlotte...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedJK Rowling has finished her third novel as Robert Galbraith and has taken to Twitter to congratulate herself.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from - Books RSS FeedThere was a time when every new Kate Atkinson novel was different, from her brilliant début, the prizewinning Behind the Scenes at the Museum to the connoisseurs' choice, Emotionally Weird, with its scathingly funny portrayal of creative...
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 from
