by | Aug 2, 2009 | Literary News
from Slate (lifted from Michelle Gagnon, author of the great book BONEYARD) The Book Industry’s Best-Seller ListsWhat are they, and why do they matter so much? By Eliza TruittPosted Thursday, Sept. 3, 1998, at 3:30 AM ET These days, it seems as if half the books...
by | Jul 29, 2009 | Literary News
I work at a used and rare bookstore, and I buy books from people everyday. These are the personal, funny, heartbreaking and weird things I find in those books. Today’s post comes from author Jan Markley. From Jan: I have a friend who loans me books and there are...
by | Jul 26, 2009 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Guardian UK The power of reading Morrison on André Kertész’s photographic celebration of the joy of the written word by Blake Morrison Boy reading newspaper, New York, 1944 Photograph: The Estate of André Kertész/Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery One...
by | Jul 23, 2009 | Literary News
from The Cleveland Plain-Dealer House where Langston Hughes lived in Cleveland is foreclosed on, sold at sheriff’s auction House where writer Langston Hughes lived as a teen is on the block after sheriff’s sale by Sandra Livingston, Plain Dealer Reporter...
by | Jul 22, 2009 | Literary News
by | Jul 20, 2009 | Literary News
from The New York Times Don’t Touch ‘A Moveable Feast’ By A. E. HOTCHNER Westport, Conn. BOOKSTORES are getting shipments of a significantly changed edition of Ernest Hemingway’s masterpiece, “A Moveable Feast,” first published posthumously by Scribner in 1964. This...
