by | Jan 13, 2009 | Literary News
from the NY Times Fiction Reading Increases for Adults By MOTOKO RICH After years of bemoaning the decline of a literary culture in the United States, the National Endowment for the Arts says in a report that it now believes a quarter-century of precipitous decline in...
by | Jan 10, 2009 | Literary News
from The Guardian UK Stephen King fan publishes Shining’s Jack Torrance’s novel Alison Flood guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 7 January 2009 16.27 GMT Article history Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick. Photograph: Ronald...
by | Jan 10, 2009 | Literary News
from the New York Observer Have Dildo, Will Write A lively anthology takes the temperature of the female libido BY MEREDITH BRYAN Getty Images Behind The Bedroom Door:Getting It, Giving It, Loving It, Missing It Edited by Paula Derrow Delacorte, 334 pages, $25 In her...
by | Jan 7, 2009 | Literary News
from MediaBistro’s GalleyCat Running Advertisements in Novels What if Madame Bovary sold readers her favorite fabric softener? Last year editor Tom Engelhardt wondered why books never utilized advertising, writing: “The ad, after all, has colonized...
by | Jan 5, 2009 | Literary News
from Shelf-Awareness Shelf Sample: Beat the Reaper This is the way to start the new year–read an outrageous, shocking, darkly humorous thriller, with footnotes, no less. Ever so much better than starting a diet and workout program. AndBeat the Reaper by Josh...
by | Jan 3, 2009 | Literary News
from The Guardian UK [ click to take the whole damn bloody hard quiz at Guardian UK ]
