by | Aug 31, 2009 | Literary News
from The Financial Times Books: Consolidation is the big story By Ben Hall in Paris Published: August 31 2009 04:06 | Last updated: August 31 2009 04:06 The book publishing industry will have to consolidate if it is to stand up to Amazon, Google and a few other...
by | Aug 28, 2009 | Literary News
from International Crime Authors Reality Check Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Those three questions formed the title of Paul Gauguin’s 1897 painting, which he finished while living on a South Pacific Island. It is Gauguin’s vision of paradise....
by | Aug 28, 2009 | Literary News
from The New York Times A Library’s Approach to Books That Offend By ALISON LEIGH COWAN Ruby Washington/The New York Times The vault-like room in the Brooklyn Public Library where “Tintin au Congo” was reshelved after a patron took issue with the book. The cartoonist...
by | Aug 27, 2009 | Literary News
from Shelf-Awareness Book Review: i sold Andy Warhol. (too soon) i sold Andy Warhol. (too soon) by Richard Polsky (Other Press, $23.95, 9781590513378/1590513371, September 15, 2009) A wild roller coaster ride is nothing compared to the vertiginous ups and downs of the...
by | Aug 17, 2009 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
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by | Aug 16, 2009 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Billboard Magazine Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard, Jay Farrar Team Up For Kerouac Soundtrack by Michael D. Ayers, N.Y. In an ode to iconic author Jack Kerouac, alt-country veteran Jay Farrar has teamed up with Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard for a...
